There was a video recorded at Google headquarters just after President Trump's epic win. That video was leaked to Breitbart.com.
During the video Google exec Ruth Porat is speaking at the podium was if she was a part of a funeral procession. Except she wasn't at a funeral procession, she was mourning the loss of Hillary Clinton in the election.
Another female executive got choked up and began crying and told the audience, "We lost!"
The Daily Caller & Breitbart smashed Hillary Clinton's dream? ?? Google employees discussed "pros & cons" of "burying" conservative media after Trump 2016 victory. More at https://t.co/PPD91emnH4 pic.twitter.com/2CZ43SDWyJ
— new samizdat (@NSamizdat) November 30, 2018
The Google brass was very upset with the result of the election, to say the least.
Now there is more breaking news. The Daily Caller News Foundation has uncovered evidence of Google employees burying conservative media after the results of the election.
Check it out:
Communications obtained by TheDCNF show that internal Google discussions went beyond expressing remorse over Clinton’s loss to actually discussing ways Google could prevent Trump from winning again.
“This was an election of false equivalencies, and Google, sadly, had a hand in it,” Google engineer Scott Byer wrote in a Nov. 9, 2016, post reviewed by TheDCNF.
Byer falsely labeled The Daily Caller and Breitbart as “opinion blogs” and urged his coworkers to reduce their visibility in search results.
“How many times did you see the Election now card with items from opinion blogs (Breitbart, Daily Caller) elevated next to legitimate news organizations? That’s something that can and should be fixed,” Byer wrote.
“I think we have a responsibility to expose the quality and truthfulness of sources – because not doing so hides real information under loud noises,” he continued.
“Beyond that, let’s concentrate on teaching critical thinking. A little bit of that would go a long way. Let’s make sure that we reverse things in four years – demographics will be on our side.”
Some of Byer’s colleagues expressed concern that manipulating search results could backfire and suggested alternative measures…
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Other employees similarly advocated providing contextual information about media sources in search results, and the company later did so with a short-lived fact check at the end of 2017.
Not only did the fact-check feature target conservative outlets almost exclusively, it was also blatantly wrong. Google’s fact check repeatedly attributed false claims to those outlets, even though they demonstrably never made those claims.
Google pulled the faulty fact-check program in January, crediting TheDCNF’s investigation for the decision.
A Google spokeswoman said that the conversation did not lead to manipulation of search results for political purposes.
“This post shows that far from suppressing Breitbart and Daily Caller, we surfaced these sites regularly in our products. Furthermore, it shows that we value providing people with the full view on stories from a variety of sources,” the spokeswoman told TheDCNF in an email.
“Google has never manipulated its search results or modified any of its products to promote a particular political ideology. Our processes and policies do not allow for any manipulation of search results to promote political ideologies.”
The discussion about whether to bury conservative media outlets isn’t the first evidence that some Google employees have sought to manipulate search results for political ends.
There has been a battle between the right and the tech giants. It's no secret that Silicon Valley does not want a Republican president.
