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Could Google be even worse than Twitter? We don’t use the term ‘bombshell’ lightly.We’ve all been watching as the #TwitterFiles are released bit-by-bit by Elon Musk and his chosen journalists, but this from Kanekoa about the leaked Google files seems like it’s as big of a deal, if not bigger.If nothing else, it just reiterates what Big Tech has been doing (and continues to do) to manipulate what people see, read, believe, and ultimately even how they vote. Used to, when we wrote something like that we’d talk about putting on our tinfoil hats but now, this doesn’t even seem CRAZY.Just corrupt. ...
... Most people use Google and it has billions of searches a day, controlling most of the search traffic. Google also owns YouTube which has more than two billion users. Thus, it affects so much of what we are looking at in the day, and if they’re intervening in what we see, that’s a big problem.But in 2019, software engineer Zach Voorhies leaked 950 pages of internal documents to the public and to the Justice Department which he claimed showed blacklists and machine learning algorithms that censored conservatives and populists. He then wrote a book in 2021 claiming there had been censorship and political manipulation.Among the sites he said that documents showed had been blacklisted was RedState.... He also leaked information showing “fringe rank classifiers” that would appear to rank things like CNN and MSNBC higher than Fox News.So who gets to decide what is “fake news” and what is advanced and what isn’t? Who decided that CNN was somehow more “authoritative” than Fox? And that’s the problem when you start to go down this path — it’s not a good one.Yet Google officials testified before Congress that there wasn’t any blacklisting or bias going on.There was also the cozy relationship that some like former Google head and Alphabet Chair Eric Schmidt had in helping the Clinton campaign. Now, he’s helping to fund jobs in the Biden administration. ...
