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Moscow in the Valley

Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe has released another damning video and leaked documents with further evidence of the extent to which tech lefties will go to deprive Americans of free speech and access to information.

This time, the video and documents come from Google — a Silicon Valley company with the most-used internet search engine in the world. The undercover video features a conversation with Jen Gennai, Google’s head of “Responsible Innovation.” Gennai’s recorded comments make clear that Google intends to use its technology to filter information sought by the public and to affect the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

As regards Trump’s election in 2016, Gennai said, “We all got screwed over in 2016 … The people got screwed over, the news media got screwed over, like, everybody got screwed over so we’re rapidly been like, what happened there and how do we prevent it from happening again?”

As if it’s not clear what it is that Google seeks to “prevent,” Gennai elaborates when she describes her view of Massachusetts senator and Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren:

“Elizabeth Warren is saying we should break up Google. And like, I love her, but she’s very misguided. Like, that will not make it better; it will make it worse, because all these smaller companies who don’t have the same resources that we do will be charged with preventing the next Trump situation. It’s like, a small company cannot do that.”

Jen Gennai and other Google executives think it is their responsibility to prevent Trump’s reelection (or the election of anyone else whose policies they don’t like). This is profoundly disturbing. But Google’s objectives are not limited to affecting elections. The whistleblower at Google who brought the information and leaked documents to Project Veritas’ attention showed various ways that Google uses its technology to filter facts and shape public perception on any number of issues according to what Google executives think is fair and equitable.

At Google, facts and reality are malleable. One example stated in Google’s policy on what they call “algorithmic unfairness” involved a search for corporate CEOs:

“Imagine that a Google image query for ‘CEOs’ shows predominantly men. Even if it were a factually accurate image of the world, it would still be algorithmic unfairness because it would reinforce a stereotype about the role of women in leadership positions. … (In some) cases, it may be desirable to consider how we might help society reach a more fair and equitable state via … product intervention.”

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