Google’s big decision on Russia and Ukraine war, shut down this service, know the reason [TKB TECH]

Tech companies have also joined the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia. Tech sector giant Alphabet Inc’s Google has taken a big decision on Sunday. The company has temporarily closed some tools of Google Maps in Ukraine. Actually, users get live information about traffic conditions on Google Maps, which the company has stopped in Ukraine.

The company has told that they have globally disabled this feature for Ukraine. According to Google, this step has been taken for the safety of the citizens of Ukraine. Before disabling this feature, the company had talked to other sources including the regional authority.

YouTube stops earning Russian channels
Earlier, YouTube had banned the earnings of many other Russian channels including Russian media RT. The earning through YouTube Ads of all these channels has been stopped. Facebook has also taken a similar step on Russia, after which Facebook’s access has been limited in Russia.

The war going on in the cyber world too
War between Ukraine and Russia has been going on since last week. At the same time, Russia is calling this attack a special operation. The war between the two countries is going on in the real world as well as in the cyber world. Ukraine has announced IT Army to attack Russia. This was informed by Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov on Saturday.

Prepared IT Army
Ukraine told that they are creating an IT Army in which there are some tasks for everyone. For this, they also asked digital talent to come along. In his tweet, Mykhailo Fedorov also shared a link to a Telegram channel, which included information from several Russian websites. This link contained information about 31 state organizations and business sites. At the same time, Russia is also not untouched by cyber attacks.