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Google Rewrote News Algorithm to Target Trump
Newsbusters.org ^ | 8-14-21 | Autumn Johnson

Posted on 08/15/2021 8:59:11 AM PDT by DeweyCA

Google whistleblower Zach Vorhis says Google altered its news algorithm to directly target former President Donald Trump.

Vorhis was a senior software engineer at YouTube and Google. He left after discovering the companies censored conservatives.

Vorhis’ new book, Google Leaks: A Whistleblower’s Exposé of Big Tech Censorship, took a deep dive into Big Tech’s censorship of right-of-center conservatives:

The madness of Big Tech and their attempt to mold our reality into a version compatible with their globalist view of the world has never been portrayed better than in this chilling account by Google whistleblower, Zach Vorhies. As a senior engineer at Google for many years, Zach was aware of their bias, but watched in horror as the 2016 election of Donald Trump seemed to drive them into dangerous territory. The American ideal of an honest, hard-fought battle of ideas—when the contest is over, shaking hands and working together to solve problems—was replaced by a different, darker ethic alien to this country's history.

EpochTV interviewed Vorhis about Google’s methods and endgame. Vorhis said his research turned “conspiracy theories into conspiracy facts.”

He also said Google’s algorithm tacked new negative stories about Trump onto old ones in order to keep them at the top of search results longer.

“They allowed the mainstream media to structure their stories so that they could remain in the top of their search index,” he said.

For Vorhis, Google’s control system reminded him of novels from Orwell, Bradbury, and Huxley.

“[I]t was clear that Google was attempting nothing less than a seamless rewriting of the operating code of reality in which many would not be allowed to participate,” the book description read.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: afghanistandebacle; bidenadm; bidensfault; bigtech; epstein; google; googlelies; internet; mediabias; robertepstein; technotyranny
This is exactly what a Hillary Clinton supporter. Dr. Robert Epstein, warned about a few years ago. He said that Google would skew their search results so that negative stories about Trump would appear first. He said that doing this would affect the votes of 2.5 to 16 million voters. The people who run Google are evil.
1 posted on 08/15/2021 8:59:11 AM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: DeweyCA

We noticed.


2 posted on 08/15/2021 9:01:49 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: DeweyCA

Is any Trump voter surprised by this?
Nope.
We’ve been talking about big tech bias and nonsense for ages.


3 posted on 08/15/2021 9:02:36 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: DeweyCA

“I’ll sell your heart to the Devil, baby. For a buck, for a buck.”

Tom Waits


4 posted on 08/15/2021 9:02:42 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: DeweyCA

That trick only works when you still have some reputation for honesty left finally to piss away.


5 posted on 08/15/2021 9:03:28 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: DeweyCA

Cue Captain Obvious…


6 posted on 08/15/2021 9:06:21 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: DeweyCA
What did America find out during Trump's presidency???

Our nation has become a corrupt FAILURE!..... and I feel so ashamed when I think about the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who gave their lives and limbs for our freedoms, liberty and free speech!

7 posted on 08/15/2021 9:09:25 AM PDT by high info voter
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To: DeweyCA

8 posted on 08/15/2021 9:11:03 AM PDT by reintarnation
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To: DeweyCA

yep.


9 posted on 08/15/2021 9:20:31 AM PDT by sauropod (Time is like quicksilver, smearing the years... - Bill Nelson)
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To: DeweyCA

This is for you lawyers out there. If the government can tell Big Tech and media what to do, wouldn’t that make them alter egos, strawmen...and bring them under the Bill of Rights?


10 posted on 08/15/2021 9:21:33 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: DeweyCA
But in order for this to work, you need a stupid apathetic population willing to settle for Google results and not search further, use different search engines, etc. Just like my high school biology students used to do for required reports---merely the absolute minimum. No intellectual curiosity, just get some actual work off their table so they could return to their never-ending stream of entertainment.

And how were voters any different? I've talked to dozens of people while on checkout lines, and very few of them did not believe the horror stories about Trump they heard on CNN, Fox, Google, etc.

One of my neighbors, an elderly guy, got very insulted and started regaling me with how Trump robbed students at his Trump University, he was a crook, blah blah blah. I suppose a stolen election, horrible inflation, a pandemic inflicted on us as a bioweapon and the collapse of the entire country is better, right fool? He proudly claimed to have gotten a "balanced view" by watching Fox as well as CNN. When I told him Fox had gone to the dark side, he called me an insulting name. Hurts to be a jerk, doesn't it, Henry?

11 posted on 08/15/2021 9:21:33 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: DeweyCA
Now the frauds at Fox are trying to out GOOGLE, GOOGLE.

He said that doing this would affect the votes of 2.5 to 16 million voters. The people who run Google are evil.
Trying to affect the vote of millions FOR BIDEN was exactly the intent of Fox News calling Arizona for Biden while the polls were still open and people waiting to vote. Their announcement was a national broadcast so it wasn't only Arizona polls still open etc...

Were you saying something about the people who run GOOGLE are evil? What does that say about the people who run Fox?

Fox News is also a national disgrace, maybe even criminal for their betrayal to a nation and to a sitting President

OH, and don't get me started on the part they played/are playing on the rest of the "widespread" election fraud too.

12 posted on 08/15/2021 9:28:14 AM PDT by lewislynn ( Supporting your social media is more harmful to the country than voting Democrat)
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To: DeweyCA

Hi.

“This is exactly what a Hillary Clinton supporter. Dr. Robert Epstein, warned about a few years ago. “

Yes, in front of Congress. Twice.

5.56mm


13 posted on 08/15/2021 9:30:14 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: DeweyCA

Click the word “interviewed” in the article and watch Zach Vorhies talk about the internal workings (starts slow, but very interesting). He’s getting better at being interviewed.


14 posted on 08/15/2021 9:53:06 AM PDT by Bearshouse
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To: ryderann

If a social media company bans or restricts a user or user’s content at the behest of a government official, they become a “state actor” and are subject to the First Amendment.


15 posted on 08/15/2021 3:04:28 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: GreenLanternCorps

Many thanks.


16 posted on 08/15/2021 3:31:06 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
And it hasn't changed.

17 posted on 08/15/2021 6:43:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: DeweyCA
Google is responsible for the presidency of Joe Biden? Probably...everyone knows Donald Trump won in a landslide....if I were Google, I would try for a fair election and a strong man like D.J. Trump...the world needs him.

Careful Google what you wish for.....

18 posted on 08/17/2021 2:49:03 PM PDT by yoe (Follow the money on Covid or for Covid...)
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