Google Maps displays Edward Snowden in the White house

where’s Edward Snowden at the moment? in line with Google Maps, no longer in Russia however instead residing in the White home, inside “Edwards Snow Den.”

The region, which Google Maps classifies as a snowboard keep, even has five opinions including one that says it’s a “great supply of classified knowledge.”

while it’s now not hard so as to add one thing to Google Maps, some distance tougher is to add it in a way that it is validated to a specific address. As shown above, that’s what’s happening right here — Edwards Snow Den is a proven location, according to Google.

Calls to the Seattle quantity listed for this “business” go unanswered. Clicking to the road View photography of the site brings up an inside of the White home.

any other atypical listing also appears throughout the West Wing of the White house, this for “cCross regulation agency,” with a hyperlink that leads to an animated, musical page for what may well be a prison firm in Japan.

We’re checking with Google in regards to the listings; extra if we hear back. due to David Gaxiola who noticed this and passed on the tip to us.

Postscript (8:30pm): Google says that a person gamed its machine with the aid of altering a established Google business description after it used to be survive Google Maps. It said the overwhelming majority of edits are positive in nature however a few unhealthy actors do get thru. It mentioned this list has now been removed, though it’s still exhibiting up for me, in the mean time. undoubtedly it’ll disappear quickly.

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