Bombshell: Now We Know the Exact Lie Google CEO Told Congress, and It’s Terrifying for Conservatives: Opinion
BY JOSH MANNING
WesternJournal.com
APRIL 12, 2019
A political nuke has detonated in Silicon Valley, and Google is ground zero.
Late Tuesday, excerpts from a reportedly leaked internal Google document were published by The Daily Caller. The excerpts, if accurate, confirm what conservatives have long suspected — that conservatives are being actively suppressed by arguably the most powerful company in the world.
The Daily Caller reported that a Google blacklist of websites includes right-leaning publishers such as the Conservative Tribune (a property of The Western Journal), as well as “Gateway Pundit, Matt Walsh’s blog, Gary North’s blog ‘teapartyeconomist.com,’ Caroline Glick’s website … and the website of the American Spectator.”
The impact of this leak can hardly be overstated. Google is already reeling — and panicking, as the quality of its first response to the leak reflects — because of how bad this looks for a company that has vociferously denied rigging its products against conservatives.
But far and away the most devastating part of the leak, which Google doesn’t deny is authentic, appears to confirm that Google CEO Sundar Pichai either misleadingly parsed the truth or did, in fact, lie to a committee of the United States Congress.
On Dec. 11, 2018, Pichai appeared before the House Judiciary Committee to answer questions about allegations of Google’s bias. Pichai worded his responses very carefully, but he’ll live to regret four damning words: “We don’t manually intervene on any particular search result” (emphasis added).
Conservatives have long thought that Google has been suppressing their points of view, making it harder for some conservative news and opinion — and probably other content — to make it into the top section of the page Google displays when a user searches a word or phrase that might be in the news.
The leak appears to confirm that is happening. The most damaging item is an alleged memo obtained by The Daily Caller on how Google’s blacklist is managed.
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