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Google Illegally ‘Identifies Rape Victims’…

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Google’s search function reveals the identify rape victims in some cases, according to the Times of London. When users search online for details about prominent attackers, the search giant’s autocomplete feature populates with the names of their victims. The Times found four examples of victims—two rape victims, a sexual abuse victim and a violent crime […]

Google’s Selfish Ledger Is an Unsettling Vision of Silicon Valley Social Engineering…

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Titled The Selfish Ledger, the 9-minute film starts off with a history of Lamarckian epigenetics, which are broadly concerned with the passing on of traits acquired during an organism’s lifetime. Narrating the video, Foster acknowledges that the theory may have been discredited when it comes to genetics but says it provides a useful metaphor for […]

YouTube Secretly Using SPLC to Police Videos…

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The Southern Poverty Law Center is assisting YouTube in policing content on their platform, The Daily Caller has learned. The left-wing nonprofit — which has more recently come under fire for labeling legitimate conservative organizations as “hate groups” — is one of the more than 100 nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and government agencies in YouTube’s “Trusted […]

Google Employees Resign in Protest over Controversial Pentagon Artificial Intelligence Project…

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About a dozen Google employees are resigning in protest over the tech giant’s involvement in Project Maven, a controversial military program that uses artificial intelligence, Gizmodo reports. Project Maven, which harnesses AI to improve drone targeting, has been a source of concern for a number of Google employees. Last month, over 3,100 Google workers signed […]

Google’s Insane Campus Is What Happens When You Politicize Everything…

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A recent report in The Wall Street Journal chronicles the drama of a thoroughly politicized and tribal workplace at Google, where activist employee groups stage competing talks on their pet issues, and a growing number of former employees are suing the company for discrimination and bias. The article opens with an incident that took place […]

Conservative Publishers Hit Hardest by Facebook News Feed Change…

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Facebook’s January 12 announcement that it would begin to de-prioritize news publishers and their posts in users’ News Feeds has had a surprisingly profound and partisan impact. According to The Outline’s analysis of Facebook engagement data obtained from research tool BuzzSumo, conservative and right-wing publishers (such as Breitbart, Fox News, and Gateway Pundit) were hit […]

Memo Shows YouTube Is ‘A Threat to This Country’…

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Tucker Carlson reported that an exclusive YouTube internal memo obtained by his staff shows its censorship guidelines are “totally subjective” and are designed with “maximum political intent.” Carlson said YouTube is a “digital video monopoly” owned by “digital search monopoly” Google. Carlson recalled a case where conservative group PragerU posted a video challenging the notion […]

Google Search Manipulation Can Swing Nearly 80 Percent of Undecided Voters…

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The lead author of the study, Dr. Robert Epstein, has previously conducted research into what he calls the Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME). This research showed that the manipulation of results pages in search engines can shift the voting preferences of undecideds by anywhere between 20 and 80 percent, depending on the demographic. His latest […]

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