Russian translators working for Google were reportedly told by the company not to refer to the Ukraine invasion as a “war.”
The email, which was sent by management at an unidentified firm that translates Google’s corporate text and app interfaces into Russian, forwarded guidance from Google leadership that told its translators not to use the word “war” in their translations.
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