Google removes conversion therapy app amid backlash

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Google has removed an app promoting conversion therapy from its Play Store, following significant backlash from human rights groups and coming months after Apple and Amazon took the app away.

The app was from the group Living Hope Ministries, which promotes "committed, monogamous, heterosexual" relationships, per The Hill. It reportedly offered gay people help in "leaving" their sexuality.

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Marianne Dodson

Marianne is The Week’s Social Media Editor. She is a native Tennessean and recent graduate of Ohio University, where she studied journalism and political science. Marianne has previously written for The Daily Beast, The Crime Report, and The Moroccan Times.