The San Francisco Standard – no paywall: “…there are few opportunities to write a Google review for an ICE detention facility. The company has disabled reviews for almost all of the country’s immigration detention centers over the past year, according to a study by a Tulane University professor that was published in June. It’s unclear when the company began disabling reviews for the more than 100 ICE detention facilities it lists in Google Maps, but by August 2025, the number with review sections was 26. Now only four have Google review scores and accompanying written reviews. Farmville is one of them — likely because Google has mistakenly classified it as a “public bathroom in Farmville, Virginia,” not as an immigrant jail. The study, published in the journal New Media & Society and authored by Muira McCammon, an assistant professor at Tulane who studies how the U.S. government uses private online platforms, analyzed reviews allow the public to criticize, applaud, or dispense practical information about ICE facilities. According to the report, a Google review from 2025 of the Elizabeth Contract Detention Facility in New Jersey said, “This was one of the most difficult and dehumanizing experiences of my life. What’s happening inside facilities like this needs to be seen and understood for what it truly is — not simply a holding center, but a prison in all but name.” The review section for the detention facility has since been eliminated, essentially disappearing the comment from the internet. “One of the core questions that I have is to what extent is Google making these decisions on its own as a content moderation policy versus to what extent is Google acting on behalf of political appointees and other stakeholders within ICE?” McCammon told The Standard…”