Posted on 06/07/2016 8:39:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claims Google is working closely with Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign to promote the Democratic presidential candidate.
Assange appeared via video link from the Ecuadorian embassy in London as part of the 'New Era of Journalism: Farewell to Mainstream international media' forum in Moscow.
He said: "Google is directly engaged with Hillary Clinton’s campaign" and claimed the technology giant used the US State Department on a "a quid pro quo" basis.
"Of course when she is in power… she is a problem for freedom of speech. We know what she is going to do. And she made the chart for the destruction of Libya, she was involved in the process of taking the Libyan armoury and sending it to Syria."
Assange reiterated his claims that Clinton is a "war hawk" that "seemingly" wants to start wars.
"What we have with Clinton is someone who is a hawk but who has the tools of legal interventionism, a rhetorical cover to start wars, and someone who seemingly wants to start them… From WikiLeaks’ perspective Hillary Clinton is a problem in terms of war and peace."
He also pointed out that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is now heading the Pentagon innovation board.
"Google is heavily integrated with Washington power, at personal level and at business level. Google, which has increasing control over the distribution channels,… is intensely allying itself with the US exceptionalism.
"It [Google] shows the will to use that at different levels. It will inevitably influence its audience."
The founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks added: "Google is an intensely Washington, DC-aligned company. I see a Google exit from China… It seems much more to do with Google's feeling that it is part of ‘family America’ and that it is opposed to the Chinese."
Fortune reported last year that researchers had found that "Google search rankings could potentially decide the outcome of an election".
"Through five experiments in two countries... biased rankings in search results can shift the opinions of undecided voters by 20% or more, sometimes even reaching as high as 80% in some demographic groups.
"If Google tweaks its algorithm to show more positive search results for a candidate, the researchers say, the searcher may form a more positive opinion of him or her."
Facebook 'squeezed'
Assange also claimed that the US government can put pressure on social media site Facebook.
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"The US apparatus can squeeze Facebook, Facebook squeezes your capital, you don't want to risk losing your capital so you start to adjust reportage as an individual, you start to adjust the things you say."
NSA '80 percent privatised'
During the video conference Assange said that the US National Security Agency is now '80 percent privatised'.
"There is a merger between the corporate organisations and state… 80 percent of the National Security Agency budget is privatised. The NSA is the core of the US deep state… There has been a smoothing out between the government and the corporations."
Assange has been staying at London's Ecuadorian embassy since August 2012.
He is wanted for questioning in Sweden over a sex allegation, which he denies, but believes he will be extradited to the United States to be quizzed about the activities of WikiLeaks if he travels there.
In February a United Nations working group decided that he is being unlawfully detained. The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said the Swedish and British authorities should end Assange's "deprivation of liberty" and respect his physical integrity and freedom of movement.
Melinda Taylor, part of Assange's legal team, said the UN report made clear that the WikiLeaks founder was neither a fugitive from justice, nor could he just walk out of the embassy.
She called it a "damning indictment" of the way Mr Assange has been treated.
Don’t need this commie rapist to tell us anything.
He ought to be rotting in prison.
Just as they did with Obama.
Google - Just be evil.
“Don’t need this commie rapist to tell us anything.”
I am at a different point. The NSA and the Government despises him. And we out here are SURE he’s a rapist commie or whatever.
So how do we know this? Why of course, the agency he helped expose TOLD us all that about him. I suppose it’s more elegant than putting cocaine into his car or saying they found child porn on his computer, but basically, they want him silenced, and nothing the Government says out about him can probably be trusted.
I don’t use google....I use duckduckgo...it is great, and they haven’t scrubbed it like google; bing; msn; yahoo and the others...
I guess all I know is he took a leak and is holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Google is not our friend, we knew that. So you have to trick them or use another search engine. Quid pro quo, of course. That's what it is about. All the big money is behind Hillary.
They sure aren't behind Trump or Bernie. Watch them come grovelling if Trump wins. Trump has played in their world to know what they are up to.
I wonder why his own precinct went for Cruz I think it was.
OK, the glass ceiling has been shattered 100 times now. Don't keep dancing in the broken glass or you're gonna get cut real bad. Let her have her victory. She's gonna have to fight to get the real prize.
I only trust E. Snowdon on these issues....
Maybe Assange knows why the US government gave Google an Air Force base in California for the Google airplanes.
We know the AP is in cahoots with Hillary with the delegate count story from yesterday.
ifinnegan:
Sheesh don’t TROLLS always say dumb things
Just the other day began using BING .
*S*
I'm wondering if they bused in audience for Hillary at the Navy yards, in NY for her speech tonight?, and very few minorities at that. lots of young, was she telling Bernie, "I attract the youth too"?
the first the media showed a crowd for her..never see photos of Rally crowds..just tonight...
Don’t care for the guy but if what he says is true, and I believe him, this is truly scary stuff.
The stuff about google is true. The State dept. under Clinton used them for everything. They have more data on the American people than anyone except possible NSA. They will turn that data to dem. use during this election, no doubt about it. Read what they say about influence opinion simply with rankings of search results. They had an app they were going to give State dept. to identify likely dissenters in Libya. 1984 times ten.
No doubt about it.
Assange feeling the Bern.
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