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An undercover video affirms that Google---one of the largest technology companies in the world---does in fact control what you see and do not see on the Internet.
And, in their own words, must prevent a "Trump repeat" in the 2020 election.
Be informed.
On June 13 we published an article titled, "Google Now Controlling 'Fringe Domains'."
In the article, I said that "a new report claims that Google runs two blacklists designed to remove 'fringe domains' and op-eds from featured snippets at the top of Google search results."
We also said that was important because Google controls 3.8 searches per minute or 92.04% of all Internet searches worldwide, which translates to at least 2 trillion searches per year.
When Google manipulates the flow of information on the Internet, it makes a difference. It matters. If you have not read our earlier article, I encourage you to do so in light of this newest revelation yesterday.
Google plans to pick the next US President.
An undercover video, just released as part of a report on one of the largest tech companies in the world, is bent on never letting somebody like Donald Trump come to power again.
Google's head of "Responsible Innovation," Jen Gennai, is seen and heard in an undercover video released yesterday by Project Veritas. As of last night, YouTube, a Google-owned company, removed the video. However, her comments included this statement:
"We all got screwed over in 2016, again it wasn't just us, it was, 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."
Those are her words.
She goes on to say:
"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 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."
Project Veritas Founder James O'Keefe says,
"This is the third tech insider who has bravely stepped forward to expose the secrets of Silicon Valley. These new documents, supported by undercover video, raise questions of Google's neutrality and the role they see themselves fulfilling in the 2020 elections."
On the video, the whistleblower says:
"They're playing narrative control. What's scary is that Google is deciding what's important and what's not important. They are going through and they are effectively deleting conversations from the national narrative...They're deciding what gets read, and what gets consumed, what people are able to click on."
He added that it reminds him of George Orwell's book "1984"---he said, "People have no idea this is happening. They still think that Google is an objective source of information---and it's not."
Gennai also declared that no amount of soft pressure from Congress or the White House will make Google change its ways. In other words, talk won't help---if politicians want to change Google's behavior, they'll have to go beyond committee hearings and actually change the law.
She says,
"We got hauled in front of Congress multiple times, so we've not shown up because we know that they're just going to attack us. We're not going to change our, we're not going to change our mind. There's no use sitting there being attacked over something we know we're not going to change. They can pressure us but we're not changing. But we also have to be aware of what they're doing and what they're accusing us of."
I found it interesting that Gennai, who works on "responsible innovation" in the Global Affairs division of Google, works under Google Vice President Kent Walker.
Walker has declared his intention to make the populist-nationalist movement (patriotic) of Donald Trump a "blip" or "hiccup" in history which he says "bends toward progress."
Just last year, VP Kent Walker was affirming Google's determination to all but remove Trump's presidency from history causing it to be a mere "hiccup." He said, "While it may be that the internet and globalization were part of the cause of this problem, we are also fundamentally an essential part of the solution to this problem."
He concluded, "Google is a trusted source of information for people around the world. That's incredibly valuable at times like this."
The enemy within.
We've gotten ourselves into a difficult situation.
Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and best selling author of "Clinton Cash" and producer of the film "The Creepy Line" says, "The 'existential threat' facing the US, is posed by unaccountable tech monopolies involved in the most massive surveillance programs in the history of the world in which they have romanced citizens to turn over their most precious secrets, which will soon make Google the next $1 trillion monopoly."
He says, "It's all about surveillance capitalism, manipulation of the political culture, blacklisting and the potential for a stealth power coup."
Robert Epstein, the senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, has spent the past 6 years studying the online effect of manipulation, surveillance, and censorship.
He claims that 25% of the world's elections are manipulated by Google.
Forget Russia.
Schweizer says,
"You don't see it, it's not visible---you are not seeing police coming into your house. But they are, in a real way, like Big Brother, sifting and determining what you should see and what you shouldn't see."
"The problem is," he says, "you can see stormtroopers---you can see the fist of government trying to infringe on your rights---you can't see what Google is doing because it's hidden and we don't know what we don't know."
Big tech companies, primarily Facebook and Google shift our opinions, our thinking, our purchases, and our voting on a massive scale without us even being aware of the manipulation.
"Google has the ability to do a lot of things for you---but to the extent that they can do something for you, they can also do something to you," Epstein warns.
He says,
"They want to give us advertising and steer our search engines in a certain direction---we all like that because we get good search results. But the problem is they take that information and they weaponize it---they use it against us to manipulate us. That's the real problem---this ability they have to steer and influence what we are thinking and how we are looking at issues because they determine what information is actually put before us."
Epstein, who actually voted for Hillary Clinton, documented, using people around the country to monitor how Facebook and Google influenced the 2016 election news in favor of Hillary Clinton.
Clearly, they didn't succeed. But they are promising to try again in 2020. And they have the tools.
Epstein, the Democrat, says, "At this moment, whether people know it or not, democracy in the United States is little more than an 'illusion' because of the effect of these giant tech companies."
He and others are offering suggestions as to how the government can rein in these out-of-control tech companies.
Clearly, something needs to be done in this regard.
In our current culture, humanly speaking, it is difficult to know what is actually happening. To understand our times. To get to the truth.
Hosea 4:6 says: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."
What did Israel not know? And why did they not know it?
When we read the verses following 6, we discover that they "lacked knowledge" because they had actively rejected God's truth. That relates to Hosea 4. The people did not simply lack knowledge, they actively rejected it.
Deuteronomy 28 is another example of the same truth.
The people were only ignorant because the rejected and ignored God's truth.
To the degree that we embrace God's truth, to that degree we shall be free.
Be Informed. Be Vigilant. Be Discerning. Be Prayerful.