Apple removes Lebanese village names from Apple Maps as Israel attacks

PotatoAditya

Well we know that someone does not want to hurt trump and that someone is most probably tim Cook

jjtheblunt

this is misleading: Apple sources external datasets for maps and continuously imports, which used Scala last i knew, so the question is what upstream map source is removing Lebanese sites?

roxolotl

This will probably get flagged but it’s a good example of how any industry as powerful and global as the tech industry is inextricably with the political fates of the world.

aerodog

Is there a good way to find out how this happened? Who is in charge of Apple Maps? This is a huge offense to the semitic people of Lebanon; dare I say this is a tremendously anti-Semitic offense

jmyeet

There is a long history of what goes on a map being controversial. Changing a map or leaving it alone is a position either way. One such area is the disputed region of Kashmir, which has been an issue for decade, as recently as February 2026 [1]. Go back further and you have official maps depicting "savagery" [2]. Even the use of the Mercator projection perpetuates biases. Modern maps aren't as removed from these biases as one might think [3]. [1]: https://www.dawn.com/news/1972510 [2]: https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2021/04/when-savages-roamed-the-e... [3]: https://onartandaesthetics.com/2016/12/18/the-politics-of-wo...

gostsamo

Who controls the present, controls the past. And some people really want to rewrite the past, present, and future.

mdni007

Those villages were promised to Israeli's 3000 years ago. So it's just Apple correcting their mistake. It is antisemitic to think otherwise. I suggest you take down this post or else.