{"id":2340,"date":"2020-10-21T18:29:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T18:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2020-10-21T18:29:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T18:29:54","slug":"google-insiders-say-platforms-influencing-you-in-ways-you-didnt-sign-up-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/google-insiders-say-platforms-influencing-you-in-ways-you-didnt-sign-up-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Insiders Say \u201cPlatforms Influencing You In Ways You Didn\u2019t Sign Up For\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Undercover journalists working for Project Veritas released a couple of videos where Google insiders say that social platforms (like YouTube, Google and Facebook) are influencing their users in ways they didn&#8217;t sign up for.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"BuCg3I2V3xc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ELECTION INTERFERENCE: Google Ads Exec Boasts Company Can Censor \u2018Right-Wing\u2019 &amp; Republicans\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BuCg3I2V3xc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The insiders argue that Google and other social media platforms are having a de-facto monopoly over ads, search results and overall information on the internet and they can (and do) manipulate search results and censor.<\/p>\n<p>One of the undercover recordings depicts one of the top leaders in the company&#8217;s Cloud division admitting that Google is regularly manipulating its users&#8217; political views.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"DOtlOeXwDvc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Google&#039;s Head of Global Analysis: &quot;Platforms are influencing you in a way you didn&#039;t sign up for&quot;\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DOtlOeXwDvc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The head of Google Cloud global competitive analysis Ashwin Agrawal says that once the AI-powered learning algorithms have determined your political values, it will serve you with custom information to make sure you stay locked &#8220;on target&#8221; so to speak, i.e. you will only receive one side of the &#8220;truth&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAll of the social media and the online platforms know your political leanings. Now, the more you see a Biden ad, the more, you know, passionate or the more sort of leaning you\u2019re going to come for Biden. If you\u2019re a Democrat and you see more and more Democrat, you\u2019re not given an opportunity to change your mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think, the thing that I feel worse about is that people don\u2019t know that it\u2019s happening to them. That for me is the thing that I feel, like, truly for me, sad about. I think it doesn\u2019t matter whether someone in Facebook or Google is sitting and thinking about this. The truth is, a deep platform is influencing you in a way that you didn\u2019t sign up for.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Agrawal also said that there&#8217;s a zero tolerance policy in Google for Trump supporters, i.e. if you&#8217;re right leaning, you&#8217;re going to have to leave, one way or another.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf I say that tomorrow, that I\u2019m a Trump supporter, I\u2019d probably lose my job, because you know, it\u2019s the peer pressure, it\u2019s the social pressure.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"w9uT8zve9wk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Google Program Manager: Google &quot;Trying to Play God&quot; via &quot;Drivers of Algorithms&quot; In 2020 Election\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w9uT8zve9wk?start=307&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another video from Project Veritas depicting the way Google censors and suppresses information; he also says that the vas majority of Google employees are extremely left-leaning. It&#8217;s interesting that yesterday the Justice Department had opened an investigation of Google for anti-trust 12 days before the election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/google-sued-by-department-of-justice-and-11-states-in-landmark-antitrust-case\/\">C|Net<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The US Department of Justice on Tuesday filed a landmark lawsuit against Google that accuses the tech giant of illegally holding monopolies in search and search advertising, the culmination of a more than yearlong investigation into alleged anticompetitive practices at the company.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undercover journalists working for Project Veritas released a couple of videos where Google insiders say that social platforms (like YouTube, Google and Facebook) are influencing their users in ways they didn&#8217;t sign up for. The insiders argue that Google and other social media platforms are having a de-facto monopoly over ads, search results and overall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Google Insider Reveals Manipulation and Censorship on Social Platforms","_seopress_titles_desc":"Watch Project Veritas&#039; undercover videos revealing how Google insiders admit to manipulating search results, censoring information, and influencing users&#039; political views. 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