PROOF UNCOVERED THAT GOOGLE IS TRYING TO RIG THE 2018 ELECTIONS
- With the public impressions of 300 million voters being manipulated by
organized and conscious political efforts by Google, it is clear that a
program of election manipulation is under-way at Google
GOOGLE
LISTED “NAZISM” AS THE IDEOLOGY OF THE CALIFORNIA
REPUBLICAN PARTY
Google
listed “Nazism” as the ideology of the California Republican Party
Less
than a week before the California primary, Google listed “Nazism” as
the ideology of the California Republican Party.
In
the “knowledge panel” that provides easy access to information next
to search results, Google was showing “Nazism” as an “ideology” of
the party as of Thursday morning. The word “Nazism” was hyperlinked
to a secondary page that shows “Nazism” alongside other “ideologies”
of California Republicans like “Conservatism,” "Market liberalism,”
“Fiscal conservatism,” and “Green conservatism."
California
voters have been casting their absentee ballots for weeks ahead of
Tuesday’s statewide primary elections, which will help determine the
majority in the House of Representative and the potential next
governor of theworld’s
fifth-largest economy.
But
voters looking for information by searching “California Republicans”
or “California Republican Party” were getting “Nazism” next to their
search results until Google took the listing down later Thursday
after a query from VICE News.
Google's
information box on the California Republican Party.
The
listing is provoking outrage among Republicans who already believe
Silicon Valley tech giants are stacking the deck against them.
“It
is disgraceful that the world’s largest search engine has labeled
millions of California Republicans as Nazis,” said Republican Rep.
Kevin McCarthy of California, the House Majority Leader and
potential successor to Speaker Paul Ryan. “This is just the latest
incident in a disturbing trend to slander conservatives. These
damaging actions must be held to account. The bias has to stop.”
The
company’s “knowledge panel” at the top of its search results is
often populated, at least in part, with information from Wikipedia.
But the words “Nazi” or “Nazism” do not appear in the current
Wikipedia page for the California Republican Party.
Here's
the California Republican Party's "ideology" on Google.
It’s
unclear how long Nazism has been listed under the ideology section
and if it got there via automation, a third-party trickster, or a
Google employee gone rogue.
Google's
"knowledge panels" are automatically populated from a variety of
sources, including Wikipedia. "Sometimes people vandalize public
information sources, like Wikipedia, which can impact the
information that appears in search," a Google spokesperson said, in
a statement. "We have systems in place that catch vandalism before
it impacts search results, but occasionally errors get through, and
that’s what happened here."
“It
is disgraceful that the world’s largest search engine has labeled
millions of California Republicans as Nazis”
The
spokesperson stressed that the "Nazism" listing was not due to any
manual change by any Google employee and that the company does not
manipulate search results to favor any political ideology over
another.
A
neo-Nazi running for Senate in California attracted a lot of
headlines earlier this year, including when the state's Republican
Partykicked
him out of its conventionin May, but the
first “Google News” results for “California Republicans” do not
discuss him either.
“It
is libelous, and Wikipedia and Google should take more ownership of
what is published on their sites, since both companies just said 5
million Californians support Nazism,” said Cynthia Bryant, executive
director of the California Republican Party. “It is unfortunate, but
is unlikely to affect the election because anyone with common sense
knows we don’t support Nazism.”
“There’s
nothing worse you can call someone than labeling them a Nazi,” said
Eric Wilson, a longtime Republican digital consultant and founder ofLearn
Test Optimize. “Google owes Republicans an apology whether it
was an algorithm or a human. They’re ultimately responsible.”
Google’s
mislabeling also fuels Republican fears that tech platforms are
biased against conservatives. Over the past several months,
Republican leaders have increasingly been accusing Big Tech of
censoring conservative voices.
Republican
Party Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign
manager Brad Parscalesent
a letterlast week to Facebook and Twitter
requesting for more transparency by the companies in how they are
preventing political bias internally.
“Google
owes conservatives answers and assurances that they are putting an
end to this,” McDaniel said in a statement to VICE News. “Evidence
is mounting that conservative voices are either being suppressed or,
as it appears in this case, being falsely depicted as hateful
extremists.”
Republican
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas grilled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about it
during the April hearings and the House Judiciary Committee brought
in conservative Facebook stars Diamond & Silk, who claimed to
have been discriminated against by Facebook. The Trump-supporting
duo appear to have been affected by algorithm changes that have
diminished all engagement with political content.