createPoliticsResponse: the political computation of state borders in Yandex maps
Journal: AI & Society
Year: 2026

Abstract This article exposes how a large-scale tech platform, Yandex, addresses geopolitical conflicts through its digital cartography service, Yandex Maps. When delivering its services to users across different nation-states, Yandex Maps computes the display national borders in order to match oboth the expectation of the user requesting a map and a given geopolitical order to which the company adheres, and which it reifies. In order to uncover these algorithmic processes, we first propose a me