Google Protecting Jussie Smollett From ‘Disparaging’ Searches

Washington Free Beacon ^ | 11 June 2019 | Brent Scher

[Steely Tom]

News that Chicago police charged Jussie Smollett with staging a brutal attack on himself was covered on every network and in every major newspaper, but Google is hiding searches of it from its platform due to concerns of "potentially disparaging" the liberal actor.

A review of Google's autocomplete function on searches of Smollett found no references to anything regarding the hate crime, even though the company's own data show it is the only reason his name was ever searched.

The top suggested searches for Smollett included Empire (a show he no longer has a role in), Mighty Ducks (a nearly three-decade old movie he had a small role in as a child), and his wife (who doesn't exist), the Free Beacon found.

Even with a nudge—adding the letter "H" to indicate an interest in the Smollett "hate crime" or "hoax"—the top suggestions were inquiries into his height and ties to Hawaii.

[Steely Tom]

Interesting. One wonders why Google would do this.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Google will hide or misdirect searches for a fee. If so, who might be paying?

[vette6387]

“I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Google will hide or misdirect searches for a fee. If so, who might be paying?

György Schwartz! aka George Soros

George Soros was a Nazi collaborator who does not believe in God and had no sympathy for fellow Jews being dragged away to the death camps in WWII.

[RArtfulogerDodger]

These sunzabltches at google and their propaganda juggernaut are USELESS—unless you are a liberal democrat “progressive,” in which case the more lies the better.

[Steely Tom]

Soros is like a real-life version of one of the elderly Nazis in the Dustin Hoffman movie Running Man.

Too bad he didn't meet the fate of the guy driving the car too fast through NYC traffic in the movie's early minutes.

[franksolich]

While this seems a credible charge, I'm not seeing it.

Two times today I've used google to find "Jussie Smollett," and I've been directed to a lot of articles about his lies.

In fact, when I type in "Jussie Smollett," google automatically adds "update" to the first choice, making it "Jussie Smollett update."

I'm pretty sure google doesn't like me well enough tp give me special treatment.

[franksolich]

While this seems a credible charge, I'm not seeing it.

Two times today I've used google to find "Jussie Smollett," and I've been directed to a lot of articles about his lies.

In fact, when I type in "Jussie Smollett," google automatically adds "update" to the first choice, making it "Jussie Smollett update."

I'm pretty sure google doesn't like me well enough to give me special treatment.

[Undecided 2012]

Google has been doing this for years. Their search engine has been way off for a long time and anybody that uses it, well what ever.

[Garden Island]

It’s not the little punk Smollet that is being protected. It’s the miserable Kamala Harris who put the little punk up to it (to buttress her anti lynching bill) who is being protected.

[LouAvul]

You mean “Marathon Man?”

[lee martell]

Jussie knows the truth, just like 97% of the public.
As Bea Arthur used to say “God’ll get you for that!”
All in good time. Mike Obama cannot protect him forever.

[lightman]

Google, FB, and Pinterest.

The UNholy trinity.

(Only surpassed by “me, myself, and I”)

[Joe Boucher]

Hey jessie,
F you

[cabojoe]

Google “dumbass”. If Smollett’s picture is not the first search result, Google is protecting him.

[northislander]

All those big junk websites part of the fake news...

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[USS Alaska]

Since most conservatives know that google is lefty biased, why do so many keep on using it? Switch to Bing or duckduckgo, it is easy to do.

I got rid of chrome and never use google or g-mail.

[MayflowerMadam]

Doesn’t DuckDuckGo use Google’s query results, in Google’s order, just adding a privacy layer in the mix?

I had to set up a gmail account to set up my Android smart phone, which pissed me off. I don’t use gmail. And I hate doing business with Apple. Not many options for cellular any more.

[USS Alaska]

Doesn’t DuckDuckGo use Google’s query results, in Google’s order, just adding a privacy layer in the mix?

You are right. I didn't know that.

Well, it's now just Bing, bye, bye, duck, duck, go ahead.

[TexasGunLover]

More fake news... typing in Jussie Smollett gets you mostly negative stories about him, including, right near the top “The Most Shocking Revelations From the Unsealed Jussie Smollett ...”