Posted on 06/20/2020 11:55:49 AM PDT by rintintin
Google reached out to nearly 100 conservative figures involved with the Heritage Foundation and with Koch-affiliated organizations to help with the company’s messaging after a dust-up with The Federalist this week, according to a new report.
“You may not have seen that NBC has corrected an inaccurate story they put out saying Google was no longer finding and running ads for The Federalist to profit from their content,” Google outreach manager Max Pappas wrote in a June 16 email to the group. “That is not accurate, we are, see Google public tweets below.”
NBC reported that day Google had pulled ads from The Federalist due to content in the site’s content section that Google found objectionable. NBC later clarified that Google had only given The Federalist a warning, but would not pull ads until the third policy violation.
Pappas directed his message to dozens of leaders or staffers affiliated with groups in the Koch network, according to The National Pulse’s Raheem Kassam and Natalie Winters, who obtained the email. The names included Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist; R Street President Eli Lehrer; Competitive Enterprise Institute President Kent Lassman; Heritage Action Executive Director Tim Chapman; Cato Institute Executive Vice President David Boaz; and Reason Foundation editor Peter Suderman.
Some of the most prolific recipients included the American Enterprise Institute, where 13 staffers received the message; the Cato Institute (10); the R Street Institute (8); the Mercatus Institute (5); the Competitive Enterprise Institute (5); and the Charles Koch Institute (3).
The groups have all reportedly received financial contributions connected to Google in recent years. They are also members of the State Policy Network, a group of organizations historically backed by libertarian business magnates Charles and the late David Koch, who died in 2019.
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Google needs to be broken up.
So does the Heritage Foundation??
Groups bought and paid for by Google?
And so does Conservative, Inc.
Ive been completely disgusted with the lack of pushback from the right against all this wokeness going on. This article explains why. ‘Pod.
Tucker’s commentaries are finding their mark. Senator Mike Lee’s response was particularly amusing. Now Google is covering itself and seems a bit frightened.
The NSA won’t allow that to happen.
Google has nothing to fear. It owns the politicians, left and “right”
Google should be terrified. They need smashing. Badly.
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Are they or are they not Censoring according to their Leftist Agenda ??
This case ...
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People need to understand that the Koch brothers almost certainly voted for Hillary Clinton.
the idea that they are profoundly conservative is a myth perpetuated to prevent people from understanding the radical jacobins that daily besiege us.
I’d like to penalized Google some way for calling me at least twice a day about my business listing
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