Google accused of working to prevent Trump return in 2020
In a secret recording, Google’s head of responsible innovation Jen Gennai stated the organisation has been working to “prevent” the outcomes of 2016 election from repeating in 2020.
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1: In a secret recording launched with the aid of Project Veritas is aimed at exposing liberal bias in the US media and academia
2: Google’s head of responsible innovation Jen Gennai is heard saying the business enterprise has been working diligently to “prevent” the results of the 2016 election from repeating in 2020
The profound distrust between pro-Trump right-wing forces and Silicon Valley liberals has surfaced again in the US with an undercover “expose” through a conservative political activist team of a Google government pledging to “never letting somebody like Donald Trump come to energy again”. In a secret recording launched via Project Veritas, whose undercover busts, occasionally underneath false pretence and with doctored videos, is aimed at exposing liberal bias in the US media and academia, Google’s head of accountable innovation Jen Gennai is heard pronouncing the business enterprise has been working diligently to “prevent” the outcomes of the 2016 election from repeating in 2020.
“We all acquired screwed over in 2016… again it wasn’t just us, it was, the people bought screwed over, the news media got screwed over, like, all of us acquired screwed over so we’re hastily been like, what happened there and how do we stop it from taking place again,” she says, adding, “We’re additionally training our algorithms, like, if 2016 came about again, would we have, would the consequence be different?” Project Veritas claims that the recording and other files and insider bills from Google shows that “they-’re now not an goal supply of information. They are a pretty biased political computer that is bent on never letting someone like @RealDonald-Trump come to electricity again”. Gennai says the activist outfit “selectively edited and spliced the video to distort my phrases and the actions of my employer” after she had been invited to a assembly underneath the false pretence of her hosts looking to chat to her about a mentoring programme for young ladies of color in tech, an area she is passionate about.
“Project Veritas has edited the video to make it seem that I am a powerful government who was once confirming that Google is working to alter the 2020 election. On both counts, this is absolute, unadulterated nonsense, of course. In a casual restaurant setting, I was once explaining how Google’s have faith and protection team (a group I used to work on) is working to assist stop the types of on-line foreign interference that took place in 2016,” she explained in a put up on Medium, adding, “Google has been very public about the work that our teams have achieved due to the fact that 2016 on this, so it’s hardly ever a revelation.” She maintained that Google has no thought of political ideology in its rankings, citing corporation CEO Sundar Pichai’s disclaimer that “we do no longer bias our products to favour any political agenda”.
But the right-wing media and its leading commentators are going to city about Google’s allegedly liberal bias and its anti-Trump orientation, while drumming up fears that the 2020 elections could be manipulated. “Google Gearing up to Defeat Trump in 2020” warned one headline. Another read: “Google’s left-wing agenda revealed: Undercover video suggests top exec pledging corporation would ‘stop the subsequent Trump situation’ and exposes search giant’s secret layout for radical social engineering”. Trump himself has been leery of Google, Facebook, and different Silicon Valley giants, accusing them, among different things, of biased search outcomes and favouring Democrats, although it is not a secret that the Bay Area, home to some of America’s storied tech companies — and extra generally California itself — is a Democratic redoubt.
