Google giving far-right users' data to law enforcement, documents reveal

Exclusive: in some cases Google did not necessarily ban users who were often threatening violence or expressing extremist views

A little-known investigative unit inside search giant Google regularly forwarded detailed personal information on the company's users to members of a counter-terrorist fusion center in California's Bay Area, according to leaked documents reviewed by the Guardian.

But checking the documents against Google's platforms reveals that in some cases Google did not necessarily ban the users they reported to the authorities, and some still have accounts on YouTube, Gmail and other services.