[ April 24, 2024 ]
This is just the latest in a long trail of evidence showing that Google is not a search engine; it’s just another propaganda arm for the far-left. There is longtime, documented manipulation of Google search results. For years, Geller Report has been reporting on Google scrubbing and censoring any criticism of Islam, jihad and sharia. A handful of my brave colleagues and I have been reporting on this dangerous development since 2010. We were shouting into the wilderness, much the same way our banning, suspending and blocking on all social media platforms fell on deaf ears. The left applauded it. The right abandoned us, as they do with anyone whom the left deems too this or too that or “extreme” (as if defense of freedom and individual liberty were “extreme”). The RINOs and the spineless, gutless wonders on the right shrugged. They were never going to stand up for those braver then they were, and those of us with the courage of our convictions. Appeasers thought feeding us to the crocodiles would keep them safe, “in with the in crowd.” But of course, it had the opposite effect. Once the left saw they could take down the most effective voices on the right, the lily-livered were a piece of cake.
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“LEAKED EMAILS: Senior Google Search Engineer Advocates for Censorship of ‘Terrorist’ Marsha Blackburn,” by Allum Bokhari, Breitbart, October 1, 2018 (thanks to Todd):
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A senior software engineer at Google with responsibility for a key feature of Google’s search engine labeled Tennessee Senate candidate Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) a “violent thug” and a “terrorist,” who Google shouldn’t “negotiate” with, according to internal emails obtained by Breitbart News. The employee also defended the censorship of her campaign ads on social media.
The comments took place in an internal email discussion that began on June 19 this year. The topic of discussion was Rep. Blackburn’s Fox News op-ed of the same month, which urged Silicon Valley companies to address bias against conservatives on their platforms. Blackburn, who has herself been the target of social media censorship, has been a vocal critic of tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Twitter during her time in Congress.
The op-ed was not well received within the corridors of Silicon Valley power. One Google employee, a site reliability engineer, called Blackburn’s piece “hilarious” and said Republicans are becoming “tribalists focused on stirring up outrage to maintain power.”
Blake Lemoine, a senior software engineer at Google, was harsher in his comments. Saying the public is being “lied to” by Blackburn, he went on to accuse the Tennessee representative of “causing the deaths of people she claimed to protect” — something he attributed to her work on the anti-trafficking bills FOSTA and SESTA.
“We certainly shouldn’t acquiesce to the theatrical demands of a legislator who makes political hay by intentionally reducing the safety of the people who she claims to protect,” said Lemoine. “I’m not big on negotiation with terrorists.”
When another Google employee objected to his use of the word “terrorist,” Lemoine responded that he’d be “willing to go with ‘thug’ as a compromise.”
“Would you be more okay with characterizing it as not being big on acceding to the demands of violent thugs?” asked Lemoine.
“This is a woman who passed a bill that killed people and is trying to use her passage of that bill to intimidate people. It’s clear to me that “do what I say or I’ll pass more bills like this one” is the implicit message.”
Lemoine is named in this story because he occupies a key position in the company’s influential search team, as a technical lead on Google’s search feed, formerly known as Google Now. The Google feed’s most distinctive feature is that it sends information to users proactively, using personal data to predict what information users want before they search for it.
According to Lemoine’s LinkedIn, he also works on “research pertaining to fairness and bias in machine learning,” making his own biased comments particularly relevant.
Lemoine also indicated that he supports censorship on social media: he defended Twitter’s decision to temporarily censor one of Rep. Blackburn’s pro-life campaign ads on the platform, arguing that the takedown was not, in fact, censorship.
“Taking down libel is not censorship,” said Lemoine.
He went on to say “I think that believing that Twitter too it down because it was a lie is more reasonable than believing they took it down because she was a Republican. Especially considering how the legislation that she is touting in her article was sold through lies that she told.”
“In summary: she’s a lying liar who lies and Twitter treats her like one”
Although Lemoine caveated himself by stating “not all Republican ads are lies,” a question that Lemoine did not address is whether his own bias affects what he sees as “lies,” and whether that bias affects the decisions he makes in his role overseeing a key element of Google search.
Responding to a request for comment from Breitbart News, a Google spokeswoman directed us to an open letter to employees written by CEO Sundar Pichai and reported in the press last month following Breitbart’s release of the Google tape. In it, Pichai said “We do not bias our products to favor any political agenda. The trust our users place in us is our greatest asset and we must always protect it.”
Marsha Blackburn’s campaign spokesman, Abbi Sigler, provided the following statement: “These emails are despicable. Marsha Blackburn is a mother, a grandmother, a friend, a dedicated public servant, a pro-life champion, an ally for veterans, and an advocate for lowering our taxes and cutting regulation. To call her a terrorist is offensive and degrading. These emails are indicative of the bias conservative women in the political arena face every day. Liberals do not want them to have a voice in the public arena, and too many social media employees carry their bias to work with them.”
Independent research acknowledged even by the anti-Trump Washington Post, found that Google search results tended to favor Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. Research conducted prior to the 2016 election also found that if Google deliberately skewed its search results to favor particular candidates, it could shift the votes of undecided voters by margins of 20 percent or more. Lead researcher Dr. Robert Epstein also says that Google could potentially manipulate its search results without leaving a paper trail, as there is currently no system of monitoring or oversight to detect bias in the platform’s hyper-personalized search functions….
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13 Comments
5 years ago
When it started the motto was ‘Do no evil’
Now, it is ‘DO ALL EVIL‘
5 years ago
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Kalambong Kalambong
After facebook, twitter , even Google, youtube joins lslamofascist gang to support illegals and jihadis
suppress conservative free speech http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs
saudi/qatar/OIC own part of twitter, Fox Network, fund CNN, MSNBC , buy out politicians , bureaucrats in education dept to push islam in schools/ colleges. Easiest way to brainwash and takeover country and shutdown free speech !
5 years ago
Reply to
Kalambong Kalambong
When gurgle started, whatever their motto was … gurgle is, and has always been, evil personified.
5 years ago
The model for social networks should be phone conversations; whatever is allowed there should be allowed on social media. They own the software but not the content, anything within applicable laws should stand. Looks like this might require legislation to enforce.
5 years ago
After reading this, I still don’t know why Lemoine called Blackburn a terrorist (but compromised on “thug”). Does it stem from her anti-aobrtion stand? What “lies”has she told?
Oh, but we can rest assured, google doesn’t suppress conservative perspectives.
“I believe, I do, I believe it’s true,
I believe exactly what they tell me to,
I believe I do, I believe I do,
I’m a simple guy and I believe.”
— Tom Paxton
5 years ago
The left more or less empowers Islamists, the real terrorists. They are the strongest and most vocal defenders of Islam, and refuse to believe that it must reform or change in any way, shape or form.
5 years ago
Prophecy indicates that SATAN (their father) would be in control of all communication during the “latter” days. That is why these privilege companies are doing the unthinkable and stabbing you in the back of the principles which actually allowed them to foment to greatness.
They do not realize they are pawns of SATAN. If they did know they would be terrified and never do that. But you notice they continue to do even worse than before showing you how deluded they are.
The next step after that is being DERANGED. So, expect it to get worse. MUCH worse.
5 years ago
The leftists know their time is up, so they resort to more malicious lies. Get ready for a red tsunami on November 6.
5 years ago
Google, Twitter, and Facebook are a much greater threat to our Democratic Republic (and our system of elections) than Russia or China.
5 years ago
Marsha, please sue. This has got to be stopped.
5 years ago
It baffles me how they are the ones guilty of libel, not her. Yet they can claim the opposite without blinking an eye. That is how badly they have deceived themselves. It is like they willfully chose to live under Orwell’s 1984.
