Stefan Mileschin

Despite management assurances, they didn't kill the dragonfly

Google employees have found out that despite the company’s assurances it is developing a plan to launch a censored search engine in China.

According to the Intercept, the discovery was surprising because last year Google bosses moved engineers away from working on the controversial project – codenamed Dragonfly.

At the time, they said they had no plans to launch it. But that may have been because they hadn’t finished it yet. Sources with knowledge of Dragonfly said staff who were working on the project were not told to cease their efforts. Rather, they were instructed to finish up the jobs they were doing and then they would be allocated new work on other teams. Some of those who were working on Dragonfly were moved into different areas, focusing on projects related to Google’s search services in India, Indonesia, Russia, the Middle East, and Brazil.

A group of company employees who were unsatisfied at their bosses response launched their own investigation.

The group has identified ongoing work on a batch of code that is associated with the China search engine, according to three Google sources.

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