notechforapartheid - le 27 04 2026
BREAKING—Over 650 Google workers, mostly working in Google DeepMind & Google Cloud, sent an emergency joint letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai this morning demanding the company reject the Pentagon’s deal to deploy Google AI tech in classified military operations. Over 20 directors, senior directors and vice presidents signed the letter. The letter warns that this contract would mark a dangerous turn in the relationship between the Google and the Pentagon–one that raises unacceptable & unprecedented risk of harm.
“Classified workloads are by definition opaque,” said a Google DeepMind worker. “Right now, there’s no way to ensure that our tools wouldn‘t be leveraged to cause terrible harms or erode civil liberties [..] We’re talking about things like targeting civilians.”
Google already holds a contract with the US Department of Defense (DoD) on non-classified workloads, through a program known as genAI.mil. The proposed new deal would expand these capabilities, including the use of Gemini, Google’s flagship AI model into classified domains. While Google has allegedly proposed contractual language to prevent use of its systems for autonomous lethal weapons and domestic mass surveillance, enforcing these provisions in practice is technically unfeasible, workers argue.
Continued worker pushback comes at the heels of almost 1,600 Google workers demanding the company cut ties with ICE/CBP as reports emerge related to Google tech being used as part of ICE raids. Commercial Google AI models were also implicated in recent US military operations, including the raid targeting Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela and in military attacks on Iran.
“I joined Google DeepMind because I believed in the mission of advancing science to benefit humanity” said Sofia Liguori, a research engineer at Google DeepMind. “It is deeply disheartening to see those efforts redirected towards accelerating warfare everywhere, from Gaza to Iran.”
Are you a FTE Google worker? You can still sign the letter at go/benefit-humanity
Are you a Google worker ready to build a better world with your coworkers and organize around anti-militarism? Join us: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join
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notechforapartheid - le 18 04 2026
NEW- @theinformation reports on @google and the U.S. Pentagon’s talks to deploy Google’s Gemini for classified defense work. Despite increasing concerns from workers on the use of the technology we develop in violence and warfare, Google continues to embed itself into the war machinery of the United States. This latest move seeks to expand Gemini’s work into “classified settings”—a term that, in practice, means bomb target selection and illegal kidnappings of the presidents of other nations.
While Google claims to include red lines in their negotiations, a similar contract the Pentagon has signed with OpenAI provides a path for “all lawful use cases,” circumventing restrictions. For years, Google has taken steps to embed itself into the operations of the U.S. military despite AI principles it had developed in 2018 to prevent such work. From the article:
“But only weeks after Donald Trump began his second presidential term in early 2025, the company seemed to have a change of heart. It altered those principles, removing the explicit provisions against using AI for weapons and surveillance. […] In July, the Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office awarded Google a contract worth up to $200 million for an AI pilot program—a contract later amended to allow for all lawful uses. […] In December, Google’s Gemini was the first AI model added to GenAI.mil, the military’s AI platform for unclassified data. […] Google is also one of more than 1,000 companies awarded a contract for Golden Dome, Trump’s planned missile defense system.”
In February, worker organizations representing +700,000 tech sector employees published a joint statement, calling on their companies to reject the Pentagon’s demands.
“We invite workers to join us in organizing to ensure our leadership does not use our labor for mass surveillance, weaponry, and war.”
READ THE FULL STATEMENT: medium.com/@notechforapartheid/jointstatement (LINK IN BIO)
Are you a Google worker ready to build a better world with your coworkers? Join #NoTechForApartheid: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join (LINK IN BIO)
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notechforapartheid - le 18 04 2026
📣 BI-WEEKLY: NOTA Berlin Open Gatherings, starting 22.04.2026 📣
We are starting our bi-weekly series of open gatherings for NOTA Berlin! Join us to shape a movement to confront the militarization of technology. Bring ideas, experiences, thoughts and questions. Invite your co-workers and fellow students.
📆 22nd April 2026 at 7PM
Every second Wednesday
Next Dates:
6th May 2026
20th May 2026
📍Cafe Karanfil
Weisestr. 3
12049 Berlin
👾 Open to Tech Workers, Students, Technologists and Public Society
❗NOTE: At CableResist we shared 20th of April as the date of our first meeting, please note that this is moved to Wednesday.
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notechforapartheid - le 17 04 2026
FULL LINE-UP ANNOUNCEMENT——Tune in to the Techlash!! Two years ago, Google retaliated against and fired 50 of its workers who protested Google’s contract with the Israeli military and internal cultural of anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, and anti-Palestinian discrimination. This Saturday, April 18th, the #Fired50 Google workers are hosting TechLash: Fight Back Against Big Tech — a 9-hour livestream marking two years since Google workers staged coast-to-coast sit-ins to demand accountability from one of the world’s most powerful companies. TechLash features interviews with tech workers & activists organizing against military contracts, surveillance, and the tech oligarchy (swip for full line up!) — and it’s a fundraiser for the legal case the Fired50 are pursuing against Google. It’s also a day of action: the Fired50 will encourage all participants to flood big tech’s social media accounts with the questions they’d rather not answer and demands for accountability.
RSVP: fired50.org/techlash (LINK IN BIO)
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notechforapartheid - le 16 04 2026
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has been responsible for over 300 deaths in the last decade, including at least 6 people shot and killed by a CBP officer or officer under CBP leadership in Trump’s second presidential term, and dozens more killed in detention from neglect, abuse, and direct violence. At least 78 of those killed have been children.
CBP’s execution of violence against undocumented and documented immigrations as well as U.S. citizens is enabled by a vast system of surveillance and detention, and @google plays an active role in this machinery. In 2025, Google announced a project with CBP to “upgrade the so-called virtual border wall,” outfitting border towers previously built by infamous Israeli military contractor Elbit with Google’s AI capabilities. This builds upon Google’s long-time pursuit of military contracts, the likes of which include Project Nimbus, Google and @amazon ‘s $1.2B contract to provide cloud computing and AI services to the Israeli state and military.
As workers with #NoTechForApartheid, we object to the technology we develop being used to power state violence and murder, whether that be to enable Israel’s apartheid regime or uphold CBP’s murderous surveillance and detention system. We demand that Google disclose all ties, declare red lines, and discontinue work with these institutions of systemic violence.
Are you a Google worker who doesn’t want your labor to power CBP? Add your name alongside 1,500 of your coworkers on the #GooglersAgainstICE petition: googlers-against-ice.com (LINK IN BIO)
Are you a Google or Amazon worker ready to build a better world with your coworkers? Join #NoTechForApartheid: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join (LINK IN BIO)
#NoTechForICE #NoTechForCBP
To hear the stories of those whose lives have been stolen by CBP, please visit https://www.southernborder.org/deaths_by_border_patrol
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notechforapartheid - le 13 04 2026
JOIN THE TECHLASH—Two years ago, Google retaliated against and fired 50 of its workers who protested Google’s contract with the Israeli military and internal cultural of anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, and anti-Palestinian discrimination. This Saturday, April 18th, the #Fired50 Google workers are hosting TechLash: Fight Back Against Big Tech — a 9-hour livestream marking two years since Google workers staged coast-to-coast sit-ins to demand accountability from one of the world’s most powerful companies. TechLash features interviews with tech workers organizing against military contracts, surveillance, and the tech oligarchy — and it’s a fundraiser for the legal case the Fired50 are pursuing against Google. It’s also a day of action: the Fired50 will encourage all participants to flood big tech’s social media accounts with the questions they’d rather not answer and demands for accountability.
RSVP: fired50.org/techlash
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notechforapartheid - le 11 03 2026
NEW— @washingtonpost reports that Anthropic’s AI tool Claude is being used to provide real-time targeting and target prioritization for war crimes against the people of Iran. The U.S. military, with the use of Claude, struck “1,000 targets in the first 24 hours of its attack on Iran.”
Claude’s AI functionality is paired with the military’s Maven Smart System, a technology built by Palantir to “generat[e] insights from an astonishing amount of classified data from satellites, surveillance, and other intelligence.” Back in 2018, the Maven Project for the U.S. Pentagon included @google as a contractor, who had agreed to supply AI technology to analyze military drone footage. It was the organizing and mobilizing power of thousands of employees across the company which led to Google letting the contract expire without renewal.
The news of Claude’s use comes after a government wide ban on Anthropic’s tools by the Trump Administration following Anthropic’s refusal to meet the Pentagon’s demands on two red lines: mass domestic surveillance, and fully autonomous weapons. Prior to its use in the assault of the Iranian people, it was reported that Claude had been used in the kidnapping of the President of Venezuela.
On February 27th, worker organization and unions representing workers across @google, @microsoft, and @amazon released a statement calling for their own tech companies to reject the Pentagon’s demands for total access to AI tools. Claude’s use in target selection and war crimes against the people of Iran proves what we have already known: handing over AI to War Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon will accelerate crimes against humanity. From our statement:
“Our employers are already complicit in providing their technologies to power mass atrocities and war crimes; capitulating to the Pentagon’s intimidation will only further implicate our labor in violence and repression.
We invite workers to join us in organizing to ensure our leadership does not use our labor for mass surveillance, weaponry, and war.”
Are you a Google or Amazon worker ready to build a better world with your coworkers? Join #NoTechForApartheid: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join
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notechforapartheid - le 04 03 2026
@google workers with #NoTechforApartheid are organizing against Google’s partnerships with ICE and CBP. On February 12, 2026, Brian Merchant of Blood in the Machine wrote about Google’s efforts to make it harder and riskier for its workers to protest its policies and unethical business practices.
The article details how No Tech for Apartheid organized a petition to force Google to cut its ties with ICE. Nearly 1,500 Google employees have answered the call and signed the petition to demand that Google do the following:
1) Acknowledge the danger that workers face each day at the hands of ICE
2) Hold a town hall to discuss contracts with ICE, CBP, and DHS
3) Enact policy to protect vulnerable Googlers, including contract and data center workers
4) Disclose all ties with and declare red lines
Google leadership has failed to even acknowledge the petition. Instead, they continue to censor workers who speak out against Google’s support of ICE on internal worker platforms, going as far as threatening to ban employees from the internal forums.
In 2025, Google announced its new project with CBP to “upgrade the so-called virtual border wall,” by outfitting border towers previously built by infamous Israeli military contractor Elbit with Google’s AI capabilities. This builds upon Google’s long-time pursuit of military contracts, the likes of which include Project Nimbus, Google and @amazon ‘s 1.2B$ contract to provide cloud computing and AI services to the Israeli state and military.
The technology that powers ICE and CBP is the same technology that powers Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its brutal apartheid system. As workers at No Tech For Apartheid, we object to our labor and the technology we build being used to power state violence around the globe, whether that be to enable the genocidal Israeli apartheid regime or ICE raids and deportation in the U.S.
Are you a Google worker who doesn’t want your labor to power ICE? Add your name to the #GooglersAgainstICE petition: googlers-against-ice.com
And join #NoTechForApartheid: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join
#NoTechForIce
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notechforapartheid - le 27 02 2026
BREAKING—Worker organizations & unions representing over 700,000 workers demand: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft must reject the Pentagon’s demands.
“We represent groups of workers from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Our organizations typically focus on a range of issues, from better workplace protections to the pursuit of environmental justice and the demilitarization of our technology.
This is our first statement together.
We are speaking out today because the Pentagon is demanding that Anthropic abandon two major safety guardrails for Claude, which is the only frontier AI model currently deployed in classified Department of War operations. This intimidation is an ultimatum: AI companies can either agree to the Pentagon’s terms, or be designated a “supply chain risk,” or forced to provide the technology through the Defense Production Act.
As of Thursday afternoon, Anthropic issued a statement saying it will reject the Pentagon’s demands and uphold these guardrails. How the Pentagon reacts remains to be seen, but we know they will rapidly seek to onboard other models without these guardrails in place, regardless of whether they try to force Anthropic to comply.
If any tech company caves to the Pentagon’s demands, War Secretary Pete Hegseth will have won the ability to surveil our communities — here and abroad –en masse, at an unprecedented level. He will have the power to build and deploy A.I.-powered drones that kill people without the approval of any human. Our employers are already complicit in providing their technologies to power mass atrocities and war crimes; capitulating to the Pentagon’s intimidation will only further implicate our labor in violence and repression.
As workers who make these companies run, we demand:
Executive leadership at Google, Microsoft, and Amazon must reject the Pentagon’s advances and provide workers with transparency about contracts with other repressive state agencies including DHS, CBP, and ICE.
We invite workers to join us in organizing to ensure our leadership does not use our labor for mass surveillance, weaponry, and war.”
READ THE FULL STATEMENT: medium.com/@notechforapartheid/jointstatement- (LINK IN BIO)
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notechforapartheid - le 20 02 2026
Almost 1,400 @google workers have added their name to our petition demanding Google cut all their ties with ICE/CBP/DHS and protect its immigrant workers.
After ICE officers murdered Renee Good in Minneapolis earlier in January, Jeff Dean—chief scientist leading @google @deepmind and Gemini—hopped onto twitter to call for a “collective responsibility to speak up” against ICE’s violent raids on our communities. In his tweet, he fails to mention the numerous ways that Google aids in and profits from the U.S. deportation machine.
In April of 2025, @intercept reported that Google is working with CBP to upgrade live footage from the U.S. Mexico border with machine learning tools designed to detect objects, vehicles, and humans. CBP—like ICE—is one branch of DHS, and is deeply tied to the ICE operations infiltrating our neighborhoods. In fact, it was two CBP officers who murdered ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
@google also agreed to remove prominent ICE spotting apps from the PlayStore, claiming that these tools, designed to warn communities of ICE raids occurring in their neighborhoods, violated company policy. And in 2025, Google turned over personal data of two student activists for Palestine over to ICE following a subpoena. Recent reporting from @intercept reveals that this personal data included emails, passwords, and even credit card and bank account numbers.
Google’s open collaboration with fascism—both abroad and against those within the U.S.—is no an accident. It is the result of deliberate choices by company executives to prioritize profit over people. These choices include Project Nimbus, Google and Amazon’s 1.2 billion dollar contract to supply AI and cloud technology to the Israeli state and military as it commits genocide in Gaza.
Jeff Dean: instead of performative social media statements, you have a responsibility to cancel all contracts with CBP, end collaborations with ICE, and to drop Project Nimbus.
Are you a Google worker who doesn’t want your labor to power ICE? Add your name on the #GooglersAgainstICE petition: googlers-against-ice.com
And join #NoTechForApartheid: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join
#NoTechForIce
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notechforapartheid - le 17 02 2026
GOOGLERS AGAINST ICE HITS 1,300 SIGNATURES
Since we launched our Googlers Against ICE petition opposing Google’s contracts and partnerships with DHS/CBP/ICE a little under 2 weeks ago, over 1,350 of our co-workers have added their names to join us in our demands. This powerful and growing response from Google workers represents widespread anger with leadership’s collusion with Trump & ICE’s horrific detention-deportation machine.
We started No Tech for Apartheid as a campaign against Project Nimbus, Google and Amazon’s joint $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with the Israeli military and government. We’re now taking on Google’s collusion with ICE/CBP not only because it’s the right thing to do but because we believe organizing that materially recognizes the interconnectedness of our fights only makes our movements stronger.
Through Nimbus, Google provides air-gapped cloud services to Israel — these technologies that workers built have powered Israel’s apartheid state and its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza over the last 2+ years. Now, Google has sold this same palette of technologies to DHS to power its violent assault on immigrants and our cities at large.
We believe that no matter where Google technology is being deployed for militarism and state violence, we have a responsibility, as workers, to resist it. Across Israel’s genocidal apartheid system in Palestine and ICE raids in the U.S., Google tech is a throughline connecting our fights against oppression. That’s why we must exercise our power as workers and collectively resist inhumane use of this technology––the tech we labored to create.
That’s why we’re coming together as Google workers to demand an end to this disgraceful use of our labor.
Are you a Google worker who doesn’t want your labor to power ICE’s violence? Add your name at googlers-against-ice.com
If you’re a Google or Amazon worker, join us as we build labor power against technology fueling militarism and state violence—from the U.S. to Palestine: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join
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notechforapartheid - le 06 02 2026
BREAKING—As of 1 PM February 6th, over 900 of our coworkers at Google have added their name to our petition demanding the company cut its ties with DHS, CBP, and ICE.
ARE YOU A GOOGLE WORKER? Sign the petition at googlers-against-ice.com
Google workers with No Tech for Apartheid organized the petition demanding disclosure and divestment, transparency into ties with ICE and CBP, and worker protections for Google workers—from data center employees to cafeteria workers to janitorial staff—all Googlers deserve safety and protection.
500 Googlers signed on within 24 hours of launching the petition on corporate channels.
No Tech for Apartheid organized this petition because we believe in collective liberation. The technology that powers ICE and CBP is the same technology that powers Israel’s genocide in Gaza and brutal apartheid system. Our resistance to these systems of state violence must be interconnected.
As a Google worker with No Tech for Apartheid said today at our press conference: “We organized this petition because we object to the technology we build being used to power state violence around the Globe, whether that be Israel’s apartheid system or ICE raids and deportations in the US.”
In 2025, Google announced its new project with Trump’s US Customs & Border Protection to “upgrade the so-called virtual border wall,” by outfitting border towers previously built by infamous Israeli military contractor Elbit with Google’s AI capabilities.
Google workers organized this petition as part of No Tech for Apartheid’s efforts to end the militarization of the company, as it increasingly pursues contracts with weapons manufacturers and fascist regimes.
We call on our Google coworkers to join us in stopping the military exploitation of our labor & in opposing Google’s complicity in the U.S. detention and deportation machine and Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Are you a Google or Amazon worker ready to build a better world with your coworker? Join #NoTechForApartheid: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join
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notechforapartheid - le 05 02 2026
NEW—This week, on the same day that Israel killed 30 Palestinians — including three little girls from the same family — a new worker whistleblower leak revealed that @Google has been providing Gemini AI to the Israeli military & its contractors to help them “analyze drone video footage.”
In July 2024, back when Google’s own policies stated that AI could not be used for surveillance or weapons, Google responded to requests from the Israeli military to make “Gemini more reliable at identifying objects… in aerial video footage.” The whistleblower alleged that Google’s AI ethics review process was not being applied to Israel’s use cases.
We knew Google was collaborating with the Israeli military via Project Nimbus, its $1.2 billion AI and cloud computing contract with Israel. What we did not previously know was what Google technology the Israeli Occupation Forces were using, and to what ends — especially as related to Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Now we know that Google is providing its most advanced AI to the Israeli military, through products like Google Gemini (now also powering the U.S. Department of War), in order to identify, locate, and target people, as well as drones and tanks.
Google could not deny the allegations in the complaint, instead attempting to downplay the severity of their technological facilitation of the surveillance and genocide of Palestinians by ridiculously claiming that the use of AI was “too small to be ‘meaningful.’”
Previous investigations, made possible by leaks from other courageous worker whistleblowers, have brought to light, during the last 2+ years of Israel’s genocide how Google’s tech is being weaponized right now to continue targeting and killing Palestinians in Gaza, despite the so-called “ceasefire.”
Silence will not keep us safe. Solidarity keeps us safe. Workers will not stand for our labor being weaponized by the Trump administration or Israel’s genocidal apartheid state — from Gaza to Minneapolis.
We call on all of our coworkers at Google to join our collective & urgent fight to end the military exploitation of our labor.
Join us: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join
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notechforapartheid - le 02 02 2026
BREAKING—A @google worker whistleblower’s leak to @washingtonpost confirms that Google’s Gemini is aiding the Israeli military by helping it and its contractors “analyze drone video footage.”
In July 2024, when Google’s own policies stated that AI could not be used for surveillance or weapons, Google responded to requests from the Israeli military to make “Gemini more reliable at identifying objects… in aerial video footage.” The Google worker whistleblower shared that the typically robust AI ethics review process was not being applied to Israel’s use cases.
Now we know that Google is providing its most advanced AI technology to the Israeli military, through products like Google Gemini (now also powering the U.S. Department of War), in order to identify, locate, and target people, as well as drones and tanks.
Google could not deny the allegations in the complaint, instead attempting to downplay the severity of their technological facilitation of Palestinian surveillance and genocide by ridiculously claiming that the use of AI was “too small to be ‘meaningful.’”
This leak further exposes Google lies in its ties to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, claiming their $1.2 billion AI cloud contract, Project Nimbus, was “not directed at highly sensitive, classified, or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services.” Yet in January of 2025, reporting from the Washington Post revealed that Google “rushed to provide the Israeli military with greater access to AI tools” as the genocide against Palestinians began in October 2023.
Since January of 2025, Google has doubled down on its turn toward militarism, pushing contracts with the Pentagon, CBP/DHS, Palantir, & Lockheed Martin.
Workers organizing with #NoTechForApartheid will continue to build worker power to ensure our labor not be weaponized for apartheid, surveillance, and genocide.
Are you a Google worker? Join us: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join
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notechforapartheid - le 21 01 2026
2025 has ended, marking over 2 years of genocide in Gaza and 1 year of the Trump regime. As we look back on last year, #NoTechForApartheid has compiled some of Google’s biggest 2025 trends, War Crimes Edition.
1. In her report “From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide”, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese named @google as one of the companies profiting from Israel’s occupation of Palestine and genocide in Gaza. According to this report, Google and its individual executives can be held criminally liable in international courts.
2. After signing a $45 million contract to host Israeli propaganda ads denying famine in Gaza, Google’s Trust and Safety team ordered employees to ignore over 70k user reports, claiming the misinformation ads don’t violate Google policy.
3. Google once upheld a facade of goodwill through AI principles which claimed to prohibit the development of weapons, despite years of pursuing military and surveillance development. That mask came off in 2025: a month into Trump’s presidency, AI principles banning technology for weaponry quietly disappeared.
4. Google has been lying about the Project Nimbus contract since 2021, claiming that the technology won’t act in violation of the company’s terms of service. Numerous leaks in 2025 showed not only did Google leadership anticipate that Nimbus would assist in war crimes, but they introduced special clauses to protect Israel against international investigations.
5. Google has gone above and beyond answering Trump’s fascist demands, from hiding war crimes to turning against activists and supporting ICE in kidnapping our neighbors.
6. Chasing after billions in profit from contracts aligned with genocide, deportation, and surveillance, Google spent 2025 reminding us just how greedy it can be, no matter the human cost.
For Google 2025 was another year of being evil, another year of profiting from violence, and another year of enabling genocide. But it was also a year of organizing to build our collective power as tech workers, work that continues into the new year.
Are you a Google worker ready to build a better future with your coworkers? Join us: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join
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