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Current Sr. Google Engineer Goes Public On Camera: Tech is “Dangerous,” “Taking Sides”
Project Veritas ^ | 07/24/19

Posted on 07/24/2019 6:29:39 AM PDT by Enlightened1

 Insider: “It’s time to decide, do we run the technology, or does the technology run us?”
 “I really don’t buy the idea that big tech is politically neutral.”
 “Are we going to just let the biggest tech companies decide who wins every election from now on?”
 “I look at search and I look at Google News and I see what it’s doing and I see Google executives go to Congress and say that it’s not manipulated. It’s not political. And I’m just so sure that’s not true.”
 “I have a PhD, I have five years’ experience at Google and I just know how algorithms are. They don’t write themselves. We write them to do what we want them to do.”

Project Veritas has published an on-the-record interview with an insider who works at Google named Greg Coppola. This video interview follows a series of insider Google reports, including internal Google documents, recently published by Project Veritas which exposed political bias“algorithmic unfairness,” and the use of “blacklists” at YouTube.

Coppola is a senior software engineer at Google who works on artificial intelligence and the Google Assistant:

COPPOLA: I’ve been coding since I was ten [years old.] I have a PhD, I have five years’ experience at Google and I just know how algorithms are. They don’t write themselves. We write them to do what want them to do.”

(Other brave individuals who feel compelled to expose wrongdoing they witness can contact Project Veritas by sending an encrypted email to VeritasTips@protonmail.com.)

“that can be dangerous…”

The insider spoke with Project Veritas because he wants people to be aware of his concerns about technology companies’ ability to influence politics:

(Excerpt) Read more at projectveritas.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: censorship; election; engineer; google; meddling; mediabias
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To: TalonDJ
...those idealistic morons are going to slap together a self replicating deathbot and be dead before they realize their mistake.

And then folks like you and me will get The Call to come back and design/test/evaluate/produce countermeasures on some kind of sillya$$ schedule, with specs written by fools.

(Maybe this time the ALCU and MSM won't be roadblocking everything in court and/or styling us as "warmongers, etc, etc". /jk -----And maybe this time I'll just get the family back in Redoubt and go to war with the whole damn bunch of 'em instead.)

41 posted on 07/24/2019 1:12:05 PM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet (Prayer and Vigilance yes. Violence, No.........Not just yet.)
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To: ShadowAce

Well, don’t be coy. Teach.


42 posted on 07/24/2019 1:20:32 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Trump 2020 - Re-Elect the M*****F***er!)
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To: semaj

The heck, folks. You gotta better idea?

Great. Tell me. Or quitcherbitxhen.


43 posted on 07/24/2019 1:22:13 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Trump 2020 - Re-Elect the M*****F***er!)
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To: Enlightened1
“I have a PhD, I have five years’ experience at Google and I just know how algorithms are. They don’t write themselves. We write them to do what we want them to do.”

On the lighter brighter side conservatives are use to crooked polls that tell us we're failing failing failing... all the way up until a few days before the election (because they don't want to lose total credibility) so they give numbers closer to the truth. If social media people throw away their integrity - people will catch on - and they'll be ignored. Kind of like the New York Times today ...

44 posted on 07/24/2019 1:51:36 PM PDT by GOPJ ("This has been a disaster for Democrats and a disaster for... Robert Mueller." Chris Wallace)
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To: Uncle Miltie
Tor is a self-contained (essentially) network that mixes all your packets around.

However, at some point, all those mixed up packets have to exit that network to get to your target destination. That happens at an exit node.

Anyone can operate an exit node.

Let that sink in. Anyone. Including the government, which probably operates more exit nodes than anyone.

Once all those packets arrive at an exit node, they are reassembled to be sent on to the target. That is where they can be examined for target and source (they have to know how to return to your computer).

Anyone operating an exit node can spy on all the traffic going through it.

45 posted on 07/24/2019 2:55:32 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: robel

“The marxist social media overlords are concerned with numbers, and they have the numbers.”

In 2016, republicans controlled 35 states, while rats controlled 11 states. How did that happen if “they have the numbers?”


46 posted on 07/24/2019 3:24:20 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: sergeantdave

There’s a difference between “republicans and democrats” and social media. Social media has the numbers.


47 posted on 07/24/2019 3:31:28 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce

“Social media has the numbers.”

As a counterbalance, conservatives own radio. And radio is in every house and vehicle. Social media isn’t.


48 posted on 07/24/2019 3:35:46 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: sergeantdave
Very few (relatively speaking) people listen to talk radio.

Compared to Facebook, Google, IG, Tinder, etc, they are less than the margin of error.

49 posted on 07/24/2019 3:37:44 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce

“Compared to Facebook, Google, IG, Tinder, etc, they are less than the margin of error.”

Are you kidding me? Anyone who logs onto social media is considered user.

I can play the same game: anyone who turns on a radio, listens to Rush.


50 posted on 07/24/2019 3:56:39 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: sergeantdave
Maybe I wasn't clear.

When I said "Compared to Facebook, Google, IG, Tinder, etc, they are less than the margin of error", the "they" I am talking about is talk radio.

Social media has virtually everyone's information. Talk radio can try to persuade, but they do not have the data sources that social media has.

51 posted on 07/24/2019 4:08:40 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce

I’m probably not clear either.

Around the world, radios outnumber computers 10,000 to 1. As a citizen in this world, you are more likely to meet Rush on a radio than you are Facebook on a computer.

Do continue. This conversation is interesting.


52 posted on 07/24/2019 4:56:48 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: woodbutcher1963; Enlightened1

53 posted on 07/24/2019 5:06:54 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: ShadowAce

Okay , what’s the fix?


54 posted on 07/24/2019 5:19:38 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Trump 2020 - Re-Elect the M*****F***er!)
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To: Bikkuri

I thought “Metalhead” was maybe the best episode of all 5 seasons. The only knock on this episode is that it is basically the same plot as “Terminator”.

We still have about 5 more episodes to go. We have not watched them in order. I will also watch some again.

“Nosedive” , “Be right Back” and “Hang the DJ” are also my favorites.

We just watched “Hated in the Nation” and “Playtest” last night.

“Crocodile” is probably the darkest episode.


55 posted on 07/25/2019 5:54:39 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: sergeantdave; robel
Do continue. This conversation is interesting.

OK. Here's how I am perceiving the conversation so far:

robel made a comment in post #30, saying "The marxist social media overlords are concerned with numbers, and they have the numbers." and you replied with Post #46, 'In 2016, republicans controlled 35 states, while rats controlled 11 states. How did that happen if “they have the numbers?”'

At this point, I noticed a disconnect--robel was talking about social media, and you replied with political parties. I was just trying to fix that disconnect.

"Social media" as we know it--Facebook, Instagram, Tinder, etc.--is huge around the world, but it's pervasive here in the States. Most people pay more attention to their social media accounts than they ever will to the radio. This has a couple of effects:

  1. Their eyes are reading what these large companies want them to read, and
  2. their attention span is being trained *way* down so they can no longer think for themselves.
While you are correct (probably--I have not checked out any numbers) about the number of radios in the world, the number of radios actually tuned to talk radio here in the States is minescule--especially compared to the number of eyes on "social media." The more people train themselves to just read snippets, and not think for themselves, the less they will listen to the radio--other than music, perhaps.

Social media is a form of slavery. Slavery of the mind where they will tell you what to think and--more importantly--what *not* to think. They are removing vocabulary from daily use, which makes censoring thought that much easier. Even FR is a light version of this. We have trained ourselves to read short posts, and respond in a certain way--because any thought that goes against the forum rules usually gets removed or the user banned. I'm not just talking about decorum, either.

We really are entering the world of 1984. The details may be different, but the goal and methods are basically the same. Part of the outcome will be very Idiocracy-like, where even gov't officials (out "leaders") will be idiots. The real power will be those who run these companies, and the very few that run those people.

56 posted on 07/25/2019 9:04:48 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce

“the number of radios actually tuned to talk radio here in the States is minescule—especially compared to the number of eyes on “social media.”

You’re trying to equate talk radio to social media - that’s apples to oranges and doesn’t work.

The largest topics that people talk about on social media would include women, children, family, recipes, pets and celebrities. Politics wouldn’t even make the top 25.

To get an accurate measure between talk radio and social media would require including only social media politics. Now social media politics would be a miniscule number.

We’re immersed in politics here, but believing that social media is comprised of politics is way off the mark.


57 posted on 07/25/2019 3:07:41 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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