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[–] nonservator [S] ago 

Jared Cohen, a Schmidt advisor and former employee at the U.S. State Department, will serve as Jigsaw’s president. In that role, he’ll be tasked with leading the team’s charge to “use technology to tackle the toughest geopolitical challenges, from countering violent extremism to thwarting online censorship to mitigating the threats associated with digital attacks,” Schmidt said in a statement.

While Google Ideas was touted as an organization to support disadvantaged people around the world, it couldn’t escape criticism over the years. In 2014, Cohen and Google Ideas were repeatedly targeted by WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange. In an op-ed published in Newsweek that year called “Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems,” the WikiLeaks founder argued Google Ideas was an apparatus for the company to engage in international affairs and use Cohen’s connections with the U.S. government in that effort.

So far, Jigsaw has yielded some results. The team has developed several tools, including one, called Investigative Dashboard, that allows journalists to more easily research criminals and corrupt officials.

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