Washington – A recently leaked video from 2016 shows Google executives lamenting the election of Donald Trump, who has accused the company of doctoring search results for his name.
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The video , posted on the Breitbart website, shows Google co-founder Sergey Brin saying that the elevation of Trump was not consistent with what the company stands for. During what was clearly an emotional and companywide meeting, Google executives also extolled democratic values.
Breitbart says the video was provided by an anonymous source.
Google said Thursday in a prepared statement that some workers and executives expressed their own personal views at the 2016 meeting – which is what has occurred at the regularly scheduled meetings for more than 20 years.
“Nothing was said at that meeting, or any other meeting, to suggest that any political bias ever influences the way we build or operate our products. To the contrary, our products are built for everyone, and we design them with extraordinary care to be a trustworthy source of information for everyone, without regard to political viewpoint,” the company said.
At the meeting, executives talked about a rising xenophobia and nationalism at home and abroad. Some appeared near tears when they spoke about the U.S. election.
Last month Trump accused Google Inc. and other U.S. tech companies of rigging search results about him “so that almost all stories & news is BAD.”
Google, based in Mountain View, California, has consistently denied any political bias or consideration in developing the algorithms it uses for internet searches.
Republicans and conservative groups have alleged that there is a liberal bias in Silicon Valley and that companies such as Google, Facebook and Twitter actively work to suppress conservative views.
The video fueled that narrative across social media.
Big business loves politicians because they’re easily manipulable. That’s why they hate Trump. Google representatives were the most frequent visitors to the Obama White House, and it would have been the same under Hillary.
So Trump’s theroies are not so wacky.
Once again, Hashomer remains quiet.
The lying media always say “Trump said with out any proof” when here’s your proof!
At least according to VIN Trumpzis, no one can possibly bemoan Trump’s presidency for substantively valid reasons:
“…a rising xenophobia and nationalism..;”
Reckless trade policies, such as the abandonment of the TPP to the benefit of China, which promptly entered into it’s own trade pact with our former TPP partners;
Lying about all matter of issues from the size of crowds at his inauguration to denials of Puerto Rico’s casualties after Maria;
Scapegoating immigrants, even suppressing his own administration’s intelligence assessment that they pose no significant security risk;
Attacking bulwarks of American democracy, the press, the judiciary and federal law enforcement;
Enabling autocratic regimes, like Turkey’s, to cite Trump’s actions as precedents for their own anti-democratic measures;
Labeling as traitors anyone who is critical of him, including Republicans such as Sessions and Economic Advisor Gary Cohen, when he tried to resign after Trump’s nice words for neo-Nazis in Charlottesville;
Enabling white nationalists, cuddling up to totalitarian dictators like Putin and Duterte, damaging important alliances like NATO;
Etc.
Ret Rear Admiral William McRaven resigned from Pentagon security advisory board days after blistering op-ed on Trump
Ret. Admiral McRaven to Trump:
“Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation,” McRaven said of Trump’s unprecedented use of a presidential authority over the classification system to strike back at one of his prominent critics.”