False: Google Changes the Area of Palestine

A few posts on social media and news websites claim that Google's search engine changed the area of Palestine that appears when searching from 27,000 square kilometers to 6.22 thousand square kilometers.

The claim was published on the official page of Al-Quds newspaper via Facebook with a screenshot from the search results.

Also, Jordan's popular news channel website Ro’ya also published a news article about it, claiming that Google's change of search result was due to the deal of the century.

The claim circulated in multiple Arabic social media posts just days after President Trump announced a deal, known as Deal of the Century, on the 28th of January 2020. The deal included an international effort of $50 billion for Palestinian State development, while Israel keeps Jerusalem as its indivisible capital, and the Palestinians have theirs on a fraction of East Jerusalem.