Monday, August 19, 2019

Google Blacklisted Conservative Media


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A former Google employee has gone public with claims of election manipulation, intimidation, and political bias at the hands of the tech giant, including the “blacklisting” of certain websites, including The Christian Post.
On Wednesday, investigative journalism group Project Veritas released an interview in which whistleblower Zachary Vorhies reveals he delivered roughly 950 pages of documents to the Department of Justice’s Antitrust division demonstrating that Google manipulated its algorithms in a way that biased its search engine against conservative media, Christian media and nonprofit groups, and Republicans.

 The list includes a number of websites, including The Christian Post, Newsbusters, Life News, Patheos, and Glenn Beck among hundreds of others. According to the document, some sites are listed because of a “high user block rate.”

Vorhies said it’s “clear” that Google has a political bias, adding that the tech company is “playing both sides of the game.”“On one hand, they’re saying that they are a platform and that they are immune from being sued for the content they host on their websites,” he said. “On the other hand, they’re acting as a publisher in which they’re deterring the editorial agenda of these certain companies and they're applying that. If people don’t fall in line with their editorial agenda, their news articles get de-ranked. And if people do fall in line with their editorial agenda, it gets boosted and pushed to the top.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-post-blacklisted-by-google-whistleblower-reveals.html?fbclid=IwAR3ueTTcIUV0emckn20HP2fASHg_qTHgHK6N2HC-isQG1CFQ7kHDBObr1oY






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