Posted on 09/24/2025 6:52:08 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
How does one of the world's most powerful companies please powerful Republicans — without actually doing that much?
Mark Zuckerberg figured out that trick in the summer of 2024. That's when he sent a letter to Congress that sort-of-but-not-really apologized for behavior conservatives have accused Big Tech platforms of for years — but also said the real bad actors were Joe Biden and his administration.
Now, we're seeing Google use the same playbook, with one twist, which we'll get to in a minute.
But the very big picture is that Google, like Meta in 2024, is attempting to give a win to Jim Jordan, the Republican Congressman who has long been trying to prove that Big Tech platforms are biased against conservatives. But it's trying to do that without admitting that it did much wrong itself.
So, in a letter to Jordan, released on Tuesday, Google spends a lot of time explaining that it has always been committed to free expression, and other ideas that aren't remotely controversial. It also doesn't acknowledge that it made any mistakes when it dealt with controversial claims during the COVID-19 pandemic, or the claims Donald Trump and his supporters made about the 2020 election.
But Google's letter, like Zuckerberg's letter in 2024, does accuse the Biden administration of attempting to influence the way the company dealt with content on its platforms. Biden and his officials "created a political atmosphere that sought to influence the actions of platforms," Google reports. (While we're here, it's worth noting that Zuckerberg's letter was signed by Zuckerberg. The Google letter was signed by Dan Donovan, an attorney at King & Spalding who specializes in congressional investigations.)
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Google is just trying to get on trumps side cause of the massive fines they are looking at from the EU. All comes back to money.
Biden did not kick people off of YouTube, Google did. I hope that everybody who lost revenue -by or worse, their livelihood - sues Google. Those should be open and shut cases in view of Google’s admissions.
We’re sorry we let a bunch of commie dbags tell us what to do because we’re also commie dbags. But we do like money and like to try to stay out of power. Would you please forgive us for being commie dbags?
not being reported by FakeMSM.
BI=BS So there is that.
Key line:
“...controversial claims during the COVID-19 pandemic, or the claims Donald Trump and his supporters made about the 2020 election.”
FauciVirus, funded by taxpayers, to infect us, to lock us down, to inject us with another government-patented vaccine that kills fast and slow.
2020 election, where a grandpa in a robe got more votes than Obama with massive mail in fraud and outright cheating with machines.
The Left hates when their BS is fully exposed.
Incorrigible Marxist loons.
Business Insider overrun by woke idiots some years ago. The Biden regime, fraudulently installed, applied white hot pressure on these companies, but they need to be held accountable for their actions.
You aren’t wrong Zuck is a weird guy he seems to have more libertarian kinda leaning lately
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