Posted on 08/18/2021 7:38:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A Big Tech whistleblower said Google altered its algorithm in order to ensure that negative stories from the establishment media about former Present Donald Trump were what people saw when using the highest-trafficked website on the internet.
Zach Vorhies, who previously worked for Google, said in an interview with The Epoch Times that the tech titan specifically tailored its news algorithm to harm the former president.
Vorhies has written a book about his experience working at Google. He said he wanted to “take conspiracy theory and turn it into conspiracy fact” by sharing the practices he saw as a longtime former employee, working on both Google and YouTube projects.
Google rewrote its algorithms for news searches in order to target #Trump, according to @Perpetualmaniac, #Google whistleblower, and author of the new book, “Google Leaks: An Expose of Big Tech Censorship."
“People kind of suspect this is happening. That certain keywords trigger things within the algorithm … That is actually happening,” he told the Times, noting that newly written stories about Trump were digitally married with older ones to ensure they remained at the top of search results.
“They actually have that. They show like a graph, a tree, and they say actually this forms a super-story that spans eight days,” he said.
“So, with the Trump/[former FBI Director James] Comey thing, they’re able to keep the stories boosted all the way at the top because the algorithm was able to fold a news story into the stories that were preceding it in the last five days,” Vorhies added.
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Google is evil. If you’re a FR regular, Google should NOT be your default search engine, for starters.
One of these days, someone is going to disclose some bit of “classified” information that won’t trigger the Captain Obvious meme.
RE: If you’re a FR regular, Google should NOT be your default search engine, for starters.
I use DuckDuckGo exclusively. Bing is my alternative.
This really is not news ... and there are plenty of elected ‘republicans’ that are willing to aide and abed ... they will claim they have principles, but they are only looking out for their own personal ‘principal’... The list is long....
I think nobody on this site would be the least bit surprised by any of this but still looks like an interesting book.
I ditched commie google.
I hope he made copies!
does he have the actual algorithms? because if what he is saying is true, that’s election tampering. and, donation in kind for which the DNC owes income taxes, just like a free apartment.
For those who don’t know, the way search engines are manipulated is very easy, just change the search terms:
You type in: “Donald Trump”
Your search is changed to: “Donald Trump sucks”
Of course you never see that little modification, but it completely changes the results. It’s very clever!
> It is unclear what, if anything, the DOJ did with those documents.
My guess is that they looked for some way to prosecute him for stealing the documents, and put them in his file as evidence.
I was installing equipment at the then new NYC Google Headquarters back in 2007 or so. There was a meeting of all the programmers, about 200 or so. They kept announcing that it was for google employees only. Over and over they announced it. The employees ‘ordered’ me to stay, since the equipment I installed was critical for the meeting to function.
The CTO/head programmer guy was on the big screens, live from the national headquarters. He was drilling in to the programmers that the search engine programming should maximize hits for the paying advertiser, and it didn’t matter if the results were correct. He spent a half hour convincing these employees to lie, cheat, and steal — whatever it took, to get hits. If I had been a google employee, I would have walked out. It was pure evil, and it appeared to be normal operating procedure, because none of the programmers batted an eye.
I was so upset, I must have eaten ten trays of sushi prepared the the master sushi chef — all free. The food was free, and it was good.
OLD news. Project Veritas broke this guy’s story a long time ago. June 2019.
Bow before our fascist masters, bow.
Ditto!
Google needs to be charged for every penny of their illegal political contributions-in-kind.
This is news? Since 95% of the articles about Trump were negative, their job wouldn’t be too hard.
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