Charlie Hebdo was going under. They'd already made a call for donation in November. It's not Google directly. Google finance a fund for press innovation (IIRC,

Charlie Hebdo was going under. They'd already made a call for donation in November. It's not Google directly. Google finance a fund for press innovation (IIRC, that was set up to settle some trial). This found decide to match the 250,000 euros donate by some french press association to arrive to a total of 500,000 euros. (Can't find the article I read this afternoon right now. I'll edit when I found the source.) The money is needed to be able to print 1 million issues of Charlie Hebdo for next week instead of the usual 60,000. To publish, whatever happened/happens.