Google Has Been Purging Breitbart Content from Search Results Since the 2016 Election

[Beetlegeuse]

G**gle is the largest manipulator of information and censor that has ever existed. As of this past April they controlled 86.02% of all the search engine traffic on earth.

Election Interference: Google Purges Breitbart from Search Results

A few days after the 2016 election, at an internal meeting later leaked to Breitbart News, top Google executives, including Sundar Pichai, Sergey Brin, and Kent Walker, lamented President Trump’s victory, comparing Trump voters to “extremists” and discussing their desire to make Trump’s election and the populist movement a “blip” in history.

True to their word, four years later, Google is deliberately working to interfere with the reelection of Trump in 2020.

There are several ways in which Google is interfering in the 2020 election, but this article will focus primarily on one of them: political search bias.

Google Has Been Purging Breitbart Content from Search Results Since the 2016 Election

Search visibility is a key industry measure of how findable a publisher’s content is in Google search. New data shows that Google has suppressed Breitbart’s search visibility by 99.7 percent since 2016.... (emphasis added)




Follow the link in the headline for the rest of the story.

[Beetlegeuse]

Matt Gaetz: Google Using ‘Market Dominance’ in Search to Engage in ‘Election Interference’

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday on big tech and antitrust that Google is using its “market dominance” in search to engage in “election interference,” such as censoring Breitbart News and other conservative outlets.

Gaetz asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai about the company’s alleged manipulation of its search algorithm to censor conservative voices. After questioning Pichai, the Google CEO admitted that the search giant allows for manual manipulation of its search algorithm.

Gaetz cited Breitbart News’s Allum Bokhari, who wrote on Tuesday that Google purged Breitbart News from its search results and that Google had diminished Breitbart News search visibility by 99.7 percent.

Gaetz said that conservatives outlets such as The Daily Caller, Breitbart News, and the Western Journal appear to have been particularly targeted, and subsequently lost search visibility on Google. He charged that this manipulation of its search engine amounts to “election interference.”

Gaetz charged: ...

[Beetlegeuse]

Stifling Free Speech: Sidney Powell says big tech companies could face criminal statutes because of their attempts to influence the 2020 election.

The meat of it is a video interview with Sidney Powell hosted by Twatter and I can't figure how to link to Twatter videos here.

Sidney Powell says Big Tech companies could face criminal statutes



If they don't there was no point having the statutes to begin with.

[Beetlegeuse]

Daily Caller Experienced Google Suppression

Daily Caller editor-in-chief Geoffrey Ingersoll has said that the conservative news website has experienced Google search suppression similar to that reported by Breitbart News yesterday. Based on Google’s defense that it manually blacklists “violent extremism,” Ingersoll pointed out: “We are not ISIS.”

“Specifically we struggled with search slowly dwindling until May 4 exactly. We broke down the analytics. The May 4 flat line is clearly the result of the human hand in the process,” said Ingersoll in a series of tweets...

...The Daily Caller editor revealed that like Breitbart News, the Gateway Pundit, and other conservative websites, Google searches for the headlines of original articles frequently failed to return results from the site.

“There were even instances in which we broke national news, and would not show up in the first page of search results for that particular topic,” said Ingersoll. “In fact not in the second, third, fourth or fifth. Meanwhile, outlets that aggregated or syndicated our work did.”

[Beetlegeuse]

With silencing of speech, is America entering Orwellian territory?

Conservative thought may be the first casualty, but not likely the last

...Bari Weiss, a former opinion page editor of The New York Times, is a case in point. She sent shock waves across the ideological spectrum when she issued a blistering indictment of the Times’ oppressive newsroom in her resignation letter.

Weiss hit the newspaper hard.

“Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions.”

Her advice for up-and-coming writers and editors?

“Rule One: Speak your mind at your own peril. Rule Two: Never risk commissioning a story that goes against the narrative. Rule Three: Never believe an editor or publisher who urges you to go against the grain. Eventually, the publisher will cave to the mob, the editor will get fired or reassigned, and you’ll be hung out to dry.”...

...Public opinion shows that cancel culture is having its intended effect and not just on conservatives. The latest July 16-18 survey by Winning the Issues shows that the concern and potential fear of consequences for not complying with certain narratives is not limited to conservatives, and may be much more broad-based than assumed.

A majority of the electorate (52 percent) identified with the statement that “true free speech and freedom of belief do not exist in this country today because of political correctness and potential consequences such as losing a job for not conforming to beliefs and narratives being promoted by the media, academia and elites.” Only 34 percent agreed that “free speech and freedom of belief exist in this country” and felt free to speak their minds and express their personal beliefs in the workplace and social settings.

Across party and ideology, the only ones who felt free to express their beliefs at work or in social situations were, not surprisingly, liberal Democrats, by a 51 percent to 38 percent margin

In a 2019 Freedom Forum Institute survey on the First Amendment, almost half the respondents (46 percent) said they were willing to shut down a speaker at a public institution if the appearance would be “likely to offend.” Anyone who values liberty should be concerned that so many Americans are willing to let others restrict their right to free speech and assembly. When one side can effectively stifle the views of the other, that’s not democracy. It’s tyranny. And who gets to decide which thoughts are allowed and which are not? A student mob, the faculty Senate, the university president? ...

When a conservative student stays silent in a liberal professor’s classroom rather than risk a grade, we lose ground. When a Chuck Todd announces that those who disagree with his views on climate are no longer welcome on “Meet the Press,” we lose ground. When an opinion piece costs an editor his job for believing that airing opposing views is not only right but necessary to honest political debate, we are entering dangerous territory, the kind Mill and Orwell warned us about.

“To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.” — John Stuart Mill

[Beetlegeuse]

What’s to stop the far-left social-media giants from rigging the election with free-speech bans?

Liberty is on the ropes, recent events have shown that the left will use any means to win.

by D Parker July 29, 2020 in Deep State, Democrats, Election 2020, Leftism, News Media, Opinions, Politics, Tech

Yesterday was one of those watershed moments of history that set out in stark relief why we and the cause of liberty are in such dire straits. You try to remain optimistic in these times. However, one of the dangers of knowing too much about the past is that it’s too easy to see how events will accelerate.

We’re seeing blatant censorship at the macro and micro levels, with a news conference of America’s Frontline Doctors being suppressed while we were suspended from Twitter like many others. Censorship is akin to the victor in war writing the history books. The people who impose this on others get to tell the reason why – without rebuttal. This means they can simply lie about why someone’s free-speech was suppressed, and there is no one around to challenge the lie, hence the extreme danger.

In the case of the news conference, ostensibly this was because of false information. But because there is no longer a two-way conversation, the falsity of the data is in the eye of those oppressing free speech. In the case of the twitter suspension, this could easily because of winning an argument – at least temporarily – with the left.

The news this morning brings word of further acceleration in the destruction of liberty. It’s been reported that the chairwoman of Arizona’s Republican Party has had her Twitter account “temporarily limited” one week ahead of state primary. This on top of all the accelerating censorship elsewhere.

Does everyone understand that events are accelerating?

It’s becoming less and less shocking to witness these events. Therein lies the danger. We have grown accustomed to the suppression of liberty by those who only pretend to be liberal [flaming or otherwise].

A lot of this began in the aftermath of the Parkland mass murder tragedy with the censorship of the right of self-defense. In other cases, prominent YouTube celebrities were ‘de-platformed’. It was shocking only to those paying attention.

Now that far-left has been able to do this with little in the way of repercussions, they’ve been pushing the envelope, becoming a little bit bolder with each step. History has taught us that tyranny only accelerates, it’s only going to get worse from now on, much worse.

What’s to stop the nation’s far-left social media giants from banning free speech to rig the election?

So, we’re back to the question of the year: What’s to stop the nation’s socialist left from simply banning the President and everyone else from social media at a critical time to rig the election for the left?

Dr. Robert Epstein already has detailed the danger to the Republic in shifting millions of votes to the left. But recent events have shown that is only the tip of the iceberg. That kind of malfeasance doesn’t even take into account what would happen if whole swaths of the voices of the pro-liberty right were suddenly silenced.

Depending on circumstances, this could either be perpetrated as a ‘happy accident’ – for the left – or it could be an unapologetic and outright suppression of free speech. The ‘sudden outage’ could hit every conservative outfit in the country, excused as a ‘software glitch’.

Timed correctly when a good percentage of the country is making their voting decisions, it could easily change the history of the nation and the world. An outage at the right time, with an ‘inadvertent delay’ in finding and fixing the problem, could easily swing the results and rig the election.

This could especially be the case if everything else the nation’s socialist left has done has failed to have the desired effect and they become desperate.

“To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The sad fact is that as of now, nothing is stopping the nation’s socialist left from taking this step. They convinced themselves that they are ‘doing good’ and that they need to seize power ‘by any means necessary’ – with a group of far-left radicals taking that name for themselves. This means that they will do this unless we do something about it – now.


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[Beetlegeuse]

Google Translate Lists ‘Police Officer’ as the Primary Definition of ‘Demon’

Google Translate, the tech giant’s translation app, listed “a police officer” as the primary definition of “demon.” The secondary definition of demon, according to the Masters of the Universe in Silicon Valley, is “an evil spirit or devil.” The web giant removed the definitions altogether after Breitbart News requested comment on the company’s strange definition.

Users on reddit’s /r/Conspiracy subreddit were the first to recently notice that when the term “demon” was typed into Google’s Translate system, the first definition that the site returns is “a police officer.” Although the Internet giant removed the definitions after a Breitbart News request for comment, a screenshot of the definition can be seen below:...


Follow the link in the headline if you want to see the Twitter screenshot.

[Beetlegeuse]

How Google’s Monopoly Power Took Over Mobile Search Traffic – Even on Apple iPhones

...A small minority of web users use competitors like Bing, Yahoo!, and DuckDuckGo, but this is negligible — in 2020, Google processed a whopping 91 percent of all internet searches.

This is in no small part due to Google’s anti-competitive practices in the smartphone market. In addition to its own Android phones, where every service is switched to Google by default, the search engine has also wormed its way into Apple iPhones.

Thanks to its vast revenues, Google is able to pay Apple billions of dollars (it was $1.5 billion last year alone) to be the default search engine on Safari, Apple’s web browser that serves as the default option for iPhone, iPad, and Mac users.

This gives Google a breathtaking level of market dominance on search in the smartphone market.

While there used to be many smartphone operating systems, including Blackberry OS and even a version of Windows for phones, in recent years the market has become concentrated in the hands of just two companies: Apple and Google. And when the latter pays the former to do its bidding, it arguably dwindles to just one in some regards....


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[Quester]

Hey Beetle,

Yesterday, I switched to Edge Chromium, did one search and switched back in the morning.
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Google is a real threat. Kill, capture and assimilate new tech suppresses competition and, giving in to the argument from the elites that even though we haven't got raises in decades, it essentially suppresses quality of life.
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Google turns down projects from the department of defense yet works with the chinese military and government.
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And, they hire really nice people to give me a hard time on my customer service issues. Among other sins.
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I'm with you on Google's inherent threat to our country.

[Beetlegeuse]

Suppressing Breitbart News Is Part of Google’s Electioneering for Democrats

... Google is “wielding such a massive ability to show people information or not show people information,” Johnson stated.

Pichai’s denial of Google’s political shaping of its services is “laughable,” Johnson determined.

Johnson warned, “It should concern all of us [that Google is] completely being partisan and supporting Democrats, and it’s scary.”

[Beetlegeuse]

Censored! Big Tech Silences Over 260 Biden Critics Before Nomination

... In the months leading up to the Democratic National Convention, more than 260 conservative users on Facebook and Twitter had their posts about Biden scrubbed from the social media platforms. Posting an innocent meme showing light coming from Biden’s eyes meant an immediate suspension on Twitter for anywhere between 12 hours and two months. Facebook users who argued that Biden was “creepy” or posted actual pictures of the former vice president hugging, sniffing, or kissing children have had their posts removed as well.

The Media Research Center’s TechWatch division has been collecting and independently verifying incidents of online censorship since March 2020. Between April 1, 2020 and August 10, 2020, 260 users had posts or accounts censored due to their criticisms of Biden. Roughly half (129) of the incidents were reported and verified on Facebook. A nearly identical number (131 incidents) were reported and verified on Twitter.

“Of course that’s election interference,” said social media researcher and psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein. The former editor of Psychology Today also argued to the Media Research Center that this kind of censorship “could be considered a valuable, undeclared, in-kind contribution to a political campaign, which is unlawful.” ...


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Facebook Permanently Bans Reporter Retweeted By Trump In Mass Purge Of Conservative Accounts

Facebook has permanently banned Big League Politics reporter Shane Trejo from the platform after announcing a mass purge of pro-Trump Twitter accounts.

“It said ‘Your Account Has Been Disabled’,” Trejo wrote in an exclusive statement to the National File after he discovered he had been banned from the platform. “No reason.”..

... President Trump retweeted one of Trejo’s articles in January, according to a report by Politico:

“Mitt Romney is tied to Hunter Biden’s Burisma corruption. This is why he’s bent over backwards for the media with this show ‘guilty’ vote,” read a Trump retweet of the website Big League Politics’ post. “He doesn’t want this story EXPOSED!”...

[Beetlegeuse]

It's called "selective prosecution"

Google giving far-right users' data to law enforcement, documents reveal

Exclusive: in some cases Google did not necessarily ban users who were often threatening violence or expressing extremist views

A little-known investigative unit inside search giant Google regularly forwarded detailed personal information on the company’s users to members of a counter-terrorist fusion center in California’s Bay Area, according to leaked documents reviewed by the Guardian.

But checking the documents against Google’s platforms reveals that in some cases Google did not necessarily ban the users they reported to the authorities, and some still have accounts on YouTube, Gmail and other services.

The users were often threatening violence or otherwise expressing extremist views, often associated with the far right.

The documents come from the so-called “Blueleaks” trove, which hackers acquired from the servers of a hosting company in Texas which had been used by several law enforcement agencies. It contains hundreds of thousands of documents from more than 200 agencies, dated between 1996 and June 2020.

The leak has been authenticated by cybersecurity experts....

[The Deadlifting Dog]

It's called "selective prosecution"

Google giving far-right users' data to law enforcement, documents reveal

Exclusive: in some cases Google did not necessarily ban users who were often threatening violence or expressing extremist views

A little-known investigative unit inside search giant Google regularly forwarded detailed personal information on the company’s users to members of a counter-terrorist fusion center in California’s Bay Area, according to leaked documents reviewed by the Guardian.

But checking the documents against Google’s platforms reveals that in some cases Google did not necessarily ban the users they reported to the authorities, and some still have accounts on YouTube, Gmail and other services.

The users were often threatening violence or otherwise expressing extremist views, often associated with the far right.

The documents come from the so-called “Blueleaks” trove, which hackers acquired from the servers of a hosting company in Texas which had been used by several law enforcement agencies. It contains hundreds of thousands of documents from more than 200 agencies, dated between 1996 and June 2020.

The leak has been authenticated by cybersecurity experts....

So what are you upset about?

People threatening violence should be reported.

Potential terrorists should be investigated.

[Beetlegeuse]

Komrade Kommiemala's positions are consistently to the left of Breadline Bernie Sandals

Facebook Fact Checker Interfering with the Election by Covering for Harris

...Recently writers such as and had articles marked as “fake news” by the AFP even though the reports were accurate and provided undeniable evidence. The articles in question dealt with Vice Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris’s history of opposing the individual’s right to bear arms. The AFP marked the articles as “fake” any time anyone shared either article to their timeline. They would redirect readers to their own article, stating that Harris believes in the Second Amendment and an individual’s right to bear arms.

The issue with this statement is that it is easily verifiable as false. With only a few minutes spent on Google, I was able to turn up an amicus brief that Harris filed with The US Supreme Court in support of DC’s handgun ban during the landmark District of Columbia v. Heller case.

At the time, Harris was the Attorney General of California. She and several other AGs from around the country wrote a brief arguing that the Second Amendment did not apply to the average citizen, but only to “the militia.” The AGs wrote that DC could ban handguns in the city if they saw fit. SCOTUS sided with Dick Heller in the case and confirmed that the Second Amendment did indeed apply to the full citizenship. Harris never changed her views on the Second Amendment, as evident in the proposed Biden/Harris gun plan.

The AFP has been silent about the misinformation....

[Beetlegeuse]

Twitter Deplatforms Website That Released Audio of Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Discussing FIRING VIKTOR SHOKIN Who Was Investigating Hunter Biden


An audio tape was released by Creative Destruction Media in May where Joe Biden is heard pressuring former Ukrainian President Poroshenko to fire former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.

The men discuss the firing of then State Prosecutor Shokin in order to prevent the continued investigation into Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and other criminal actions.

Victor Shokin was investigating Joe Biden’s son Hunter at the time and his work at Burisma Holdings.

Joe Biden was US Vice President under Obama.

Poroshenko eventually complied and fired Shokin.

This presentation with the phone call audio was revealed in May by CD Media.

Creative Destruction Media has the transcript.



Transcribed from the Video——-

Poroshenko: (7:10 mark) I have some good news… Yesterday I went and seat with the general prosecutor’s office.

Joe Biden: Yes.

Poroshenko: …. I especially asked him to resign… as his position as a state prosecutor… He promised to give me statement of his resignation… One hour he gave me statement of his presentation.

Joe Biden: Great!….

Joe Biden: (10:20 mark) I am prepared to a public signing for a commitment for a billion dollars. Again I am not suggesting you want it or don’t want it. I am suggesting that is what I am prepared to do. Again it won’t be finalized… Let me when you and I finished speaking let me huddle with my team… I agree with you there is a sense of urgency here.

Joe Biden — (14:30 minute mark from November 2016 call) Congratulations in getting the new Prosecutor General. I know there’s a lot more to that. I really think that’s good. It is going to be critical that he works to repair the damage of Shokin. I’m a man of my word. Now that the new prosecutor general is in place we’re ready to move forward to signing the one billion dollar loan guarantee. And I don’t know how you want to go about that… I’ll leave it to you to how you want it done and where you want it done.

Here is the section where Joe Biden starts talking and Joe Biden mentions Donald Trump!

From the audio — Joe Biden tells Poroshenko: We will help you get the vote… Let me ask you one thing before I forget, Privatbank… This is getting very, very close. What I don’t want to have happen. I don’t want Trump to get into *** where he thinks he’s about to buy into a situation… where it is about to collapse where he is going to pour more money into Ukraine… So anything you can do to push the Privatbank to closure so that the IMF loan comes forward I stress this is critical to your economic and national security.

CD MEDIA PROMISED THERE WAS MORE COMING!

Do Not Forget — DEMOCRATS IMPEACHED TRUMP OVER AN ALLEGED QUID-PRO-QUO.

Except there There was no quid pro quo with Donald Trump.

But there was with Joe Biden — AND NOW THERE IS AUDIO!

On Friday Twitter deleted all of the CD Media Accounts.

This is electioneering.

They don’t want any more damning information on the Biden Family crimes to be reported on their platform.

[Beetlegeuse]

Fakebook Shuts Down Utah Pro-Gun Page

...The Fakebook page belonging to an armed Utah group formed in response to protests against police brutality is among thousands shut down after the social media platform announced it would remove accounts discussing potential violence....

...“Facebook seems to be confused about the difference between the constitutional right to bear arms and a propensity for and inclination toward violence,” ...




Jonathan Browning came to the Great Salt Lake Valley in the company of Brigham Young. In fact he was the chief gunmaker to the LDS Church. His son, John Moses, was born in Ogden. Ogden to this day plays host to the international headquarters of Browning Arms. Suppressing gun speech in Utah makes as much sense as suppressing binary code in Silicon Valley.

[Beetlegeuse]

Twatter censored the President of the United States of America for remarking to the potential for fraud in vote-by-mail.

[Beetlegeuse]

Zuckerberg Says Facebook Will Suppress Trump Victory Claims After Election

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Fakebook Removes 'Patriot Prayer' Pages Days After Member (& Trump Supporter) Murdered By "100% Antifa" Gunman

...A Facebook spokesman told Reuters the company pulled the pages as part of “ongoing efforts to remove Violent Social Militias from our platform." That's presumably a reference to street brawls between members of the group and armed left-wing groups.

Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson tweeted about the victim, addressing him by the name "Jay", and claiming to have known him through the group. Gibson's own personal page was also caught up in the ban.

He raged at Facebook for the timing of the ban: "Antifa groups murdered my friend while he was walking home, and instead of the multibillion dollar company banning Portland antifa pages they ban Patriot Prayer and myself,” Gibson said in a statement on Friday. “People can sign up at PatriotPrayerUSA.com for future events."...

[Beetlegeuse]

Twitter Locks Account of Kyle Rittenhouse’s Attorney, John Pierce

Twitter has locked the account of another member of the legal team of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year old who is facing murder charges after killing two members of a mob of rioters that attacked him in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Pierce, who as Rittenhouse’s attorney, is expected to defend the reputation of his client, said on Twitter that “Kyle Rittenhouse will go down in history alongside that brave unknown patriot at Lexington Green who fired ‘The Shot Heard Around The World’ on April 19. 1775.”

Twitter promptly locked his account, requiring that he delete the tweet before being allowed back on the platform.

This came just a day after Twitter did the same to Lin Wood, another member of Rittenhouse’s legal team. Wood, who previously won multi-million dollar payouts for clients Richard Jewell and Nick Sandmann, threatened to “take Jack Dorsey’s a** down” following the act of censorship.

[Beetlegeuse]

Fmr Acting AG Whitaker: Facebook, Twitter Algorithms Could Be Viewed by DOJ as an ‘Illegal Campaign Contribution’

... “Yes, I actually do believe we are going to get to the bottom of this insidious, really, censorship of mostly conservative voices on social media,” he said. “And I think the Department of Justice has been looking at this issue, and I also believe that because of the way the algorithms that Facebook and Twitter and the like use to provide your news feed, I think that could be viewed, and maybe viewed by this Department of Justice, as a campaign contribution, an illegal campaign contribution, that ultimately, I think, they will step in and take action.”...

[Beetlegeuse]

Google & Twitter Insider: Algorithms Could Censor Entire Trump Movement Simultaneously

An upcoming bombshell book from Breitbart News investigative reporter Allum Bokhari interviews a source that has worked at both Google and Twitter, who exposes how the AI algorithms used by Big Tech platforms are being trained to target conservatives...

... The source reveals how the term “abusive,” which previously only applied to non-political behaviors like spamming and the posting of obscene content, has been turned into a tool to train AI algorithms to censor the right...

... The insider goes on to explain how these algorithms are being rolled out across multiple tech platforms, and will result in the wholesale suppression of the Trump movement — just in time for the election.

[Beetlegeuse]

Patreon Freezes CDMedia Funds 55 Days Prior To Election Over Reporting On Biden Crime Syndicate

Patreon, the massive creator patronage site, has frozen CDMedia funds less than 60 days prior to the 2020 presidential election due to reporting on Biden criminal activity and exposure of the Deep State Information Operation being conducted against the American people.

This comes of the heels of PayPal also freezing funds, as well as de-platforming on Twitter and a shutdown of our advertising account at CJ Affiliate, one of the largest online advertising providers.

CDMedia is user-funded and depends on contributions from readers who want real news and not fake garbage....

[The Deadlifting Dog]

They froze funds because of the spreading of far-right lies.

Hate to break it to you but "Q" is simply a letter in the alphabet.

Even the FBI recognizes QAnon as a domestic terror threat.

Don't believe everything the far-right propaganda machine spits out.

[Beetlegeuse]

Wikipedia Bosses Propose ‘Code of Conduct’ Advancing Left-wing Identity Politics

Having previously pledged to impose a “code of conduct” on all sites owned by the Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, staff have finally published a draft version of the document for review by contributors to Foundation-owned sites. Numerous provisions, including on “preferred pronoun” usage, immediately raised concerns among users about their implications for free speech with some harassment provisions also seen as potentially undermining efforts to rein in bad editing.

Concerns extended to an apparent pledge for staff to be directly involved in enforcing the code of conduct, a year after Foundation staff banning an administrator on Wikipedia prompted a massive editor revolt. The committee behind the code of conduct includes members who push critical race theory and the police abolition movement....

[Beetlegeuse]

Facebook suppresses speech, denies due process in Kyle Rittenhouse case

... Facebook has decided to ban, in a blanket fashion, any expressions by its over 500 million users in “praise and support” of Rittenhouse, including any links to contribute to his legal defense. Most disappointing is that Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has previously stated the platform would protect free expression and not suppress speech.

This is yet another example of an overwhelming media presence, albeit a “private” one, suppressing speech...

... By suppressing all speech in praise and support of Rittenhouse, Facebook has already essentially decided—judge, jury, and executioner—that Rittenhouse is a “mass murderer.”

This, notwithstanding the fact that there are several strong indications that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense, all of which will be resolved in court.

However, before the first piece of evidence is introduced, before the first witness testifies, and long before a jury verdict is handed down Facebook has deemed him guilty.

This censorship by the social media giant on an issue of pressing national importance is wrong, unfair, offensive and flouts the very principles of free speech that have allowed Facebook itself to thrive!

Speech condemning Rittenhouse is allowed but not speech defending and supporting him. Further, Facebook has not only limited free speech in support and praise of Rittenhouse in the forum of public opinion, it has also critically undermined his due process rights by limiting financial contributions to his legal defense team.

Facebook pretends that it is a neutral arbiter operating an information exchange platform. In fact, Mark Zuckerberg recently said that “I just believe strongly that Facebook shouldn’t be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online....Private companies probably shouldn’t be, especially these platform companies, shouldn’t be in the position of doing that.”

However, Facebook functions as a media company by making regular editorial decisions in the composition of its news feed. In so doing, it must make those decisions objectively and in fairness to all points of view, even those with which it may disagree.

Facebook regularly claims, in often soaring and flowery terms, to be committed to civil rights and civil liberties. However, it does the opposite here.

[Beetlegeuse]

Not Content to Censor Conservatives, Zuckerberg Now Seeks to Meddle in Election

It didn’t take long after Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed that free speech would reign on Facebook– and specifically that political candidates would not have their posts removed or altered ahead of the 2020 elections – for him to renege.

The company announced earlier this month it would ban any new political ads during the week leading up to the Nov. 3rd election. But Facebook has continued its censorship throughout the year, despite Zuckerberg’s declaration last fall.

And Zuckerberg seems more-than-prepared to meddle in the election and its results before, during, and after the results come in. While he does not appear to support any political candidates or PACs this cycle (his name doesn’t show up in campaign finance reports, unlike in the past), he and the Silicon Valley leftists in his employ wield Facebook’s potent platform to amplify messages they want to give wider attention to, and mute the ones they don’t. That’s far more powerful than any amount of campaign contributions.

It’s near impossible to compile an exhaustive list of censorship examples in light of Zuckerberg famously saying that social media platforms “shouldn’t be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online,” and specifically that politicians shouldn’t be censored because of their public positions. But the stakes over the election have heightened with the Left’s obsession to rid the White House of Donald Trump, much of which has been exposed in reporting and treatment of the two major news developments of 2020: COVID-19 and widespread riots following alleged “systemic racism” incidents in which black suspects have died in confrontations with police.

Here are a few examples of Facebook and its monitors censoring messages by conservatives:...


Follow the hot-link in the headline to continue reading.

[Beetlegeuse]

Facebook Accused of Spying On Instagram Users Through Phone Cameras

Facebook is being sued for allegedly spying on Instagram users by secretly accessing their mobile phone cameras...

... According to the complaint, Facebook and Instagram are allegedly “obtaining extremely private and intimate personal data on their users, including in the privacy of their own homes.”...

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Google Pushes Conservative News Sites Far Down Search Lists

It has long been feared that Google, which controls almost 90% of U.S. Internet search traffic, could sway an election by altering the search results it shows users. New data indicate that may be happening, as conservative news sites including Breitbart, the Daily Caller, and the Federalist have seen their Google search listings dramatically reduced.

The data come from the search consultancy Sistrix, which tracks a million different Google search keywords and keeps track of how highly different sites rank across all the search terms.

The tracker shows that Google search visibility for Breitbart first plunged in 2017, before falling to approximately zero in July 2019:...

[Beetlegeuse]

Voters in 4 Battleground States File Lawsuits Claiming Election Meddling Funded by Mark Zuckerberg

Voters in four battleground states have filed federal lawsuits to prevent the funneling of millions of dollars from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google, and other tech firms through the Center for Tech and Civic Life which they allege is attempting to influence the outcome of the presidential election.

According to a recent press release from the Amistad Project, voters in four key states have filed lawsuits in federal courts to block the alleged funneling of millions of dollars from Mark Zuckerberg, Google, and other Silicon Valley firms through the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) which they allege is being used to influence the outcome of the presidential election.

The plaintiffs allege that the use of funds violates a federal law known as the Help America Vote Act which prohibits local governments from accepting federal election grants without state legislative approval and as a result forces the government to play favorites in the election process.

The complaints allege that CTCL used the funds to issue “grants” to local municipal governments which are allocating them to fund election activities. These efforts are intentionally targeting Democratic strongholds for the purpose of boosting voter turnout in those areas that delivered an overwhelming majority for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election in an effort to sway the 2020 elections, according to the lawsuits....

[Beetlegeuse]

Daily Caller Editor: Google Won’t Let You See Our Article Even If You Search For It By Name

October 1, 2020 By Jordan Davidson

Editor-in-Chief Geoffrey Ingersoll on Thursday showed Google hid a Daily Caller article about the World Health Organization’s abortion advocacy in its search results. Searches of the article’s exact title placed it on pages that statistically nearly no one ever clicks on, while articles that present pro-abortion perspectives come up first instead....



According to Ingersoll, even when fed exact phrases and quotes from the article including just the headline and SEO headline, Google’s search engine doesn’t display the Caller article earlier than at least page 10. The Federalist found similar search results using different browsers and search histories — placing the exact title in quote marks to search for it specifically did not pull up the article on the first page of Google’s search results....

[The Deadlifting Dog]

might have something to do with publishing false stories...

or supporting white supremacy...

"Overall, we rate the Daily Caller strongly right biased based on story selection that almost always favors the right and Mixed for factual reporting due to numerous failed fact checks. The Daily Caller is a source that needs to be fact-checked on a per article basis.

Analysis / Bias

In review, The Daily Caller is a strongly right-leaning news and opinion website that has been involved with publishing controversial and false stories. For example, they routinely publish misleading or false information regarding climate change that goes against the consensus of science. The Daily Caller has also published articles by Jason Kessler, a white supremacist who organized a rally of hundreds of white nationalists in Charlottesville. They subsequently scrubbed those articles after the Charlottesville vehicular homicide incident.

The Daily Caller frequently uses loaded emotional language that typically favors the right such as this: DEM NOMINEE FOR FLORIDA GOVERNOR IS PROGRESSIVE MAYOR WITH CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION SWIRLING AROUND HIM. The Daily Caller usually sources their information to credible media outlets, but sometimes they utilize sources that are factually mixed such as the Daily Wire and Questionable sources such as Judicial Watch. In reviewing story content, virtually all favored the right in story selection and wording, while denigrating the left. The Daily Caller also promotes a favorable view of President Donald Trump through the promotion of his policies.

Failed Fact Checks

“Former President Bill Clinton and his Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) distributed ‘watered-down’ HIV/AIDS drugs to patients in sub-Saharan Africa.” – FALSE
“Jeanne Shaheen was principally involved in a plot with Lois Lerner and President Barack Obama’s political appointee at the IRS to lead a program of harassment against conservative nonprofit groups during the 2012 election” – FALSE
George Soros-controlled Smartmatic manufactures the voting machines used in 16 crucial states, and those states will be rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton. – FALSE
Indiana Muslims are appalled by a billboard displaying a list of deeds by the Prophet Muhammad even though it is accurate. – MOSTLY FALSE
Washington state has updated their curriculum standards to include teaching “transgenderism” to Kindergarteners. – MOSTLY FALSE
Says Nancy Pelosi was “caught trying to include abortion funding in bill to combat coronavirus.” – FALSE"

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-caller/

Maybe it's time to stop reading right-wing fiction?
Just a thought....

[Beetlegeuse]

Mark Levin says Facebook is censoring his content

It's "clear Facebook is pushing a leftwing agenda," the fiery conservative radio talker posted this morning on the social media platform.

[Beetlegeuse]

REVEALED: Zuckerberg Group Funneled 99.4% Of Voter Engagement Budget To Democrat Districts

A new report from the Amistad Project reveals that the Facebook and Google-funded Center for Technology and Civic Life’s effort to increase voting access is a front to solicit more Democratic voters.

The group recently received $250 million from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and the significant majority of the sum has been funneled into Democratic districts.

According to the Amistad project of “the 17 cities and counties that have received the largest “grants” from CTCL, totaling more than $51,000,000 combined, just under $300,000 was given” to Republican-leaning counties....

[Beetlegeuse]

Congressional Democrats Admit Big Tech Companies Abuse Monopoly Power

A recent report from top Democratic Congressional lawmakers has determined that tech giants such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google engage in anti-competitive behavior. According to the report, “To put it simply, companies that once were scrappy, underdog startups that challenged the status quo have become the kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons.”..

... The report, which is about 400 pages long, was written by the majority staff of the Democratic members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust. It is the culmination of a 16-month investigation into whether tech firms abuse their power and whether the country’s antitrust laws need to be adjusted to better regulate the tech industry.

The report cites numerous examples of tech firms engaging in acts that the lawmakers believe could have a negative effect on innovation and could impede competition. The behaviors cited vary between companies but all are linked by allegations that the four tech giants abuse their powers as gatekeepers of certain internet industries to secure and grow their power in those sectors....

[Beetlegeuse]

Trusting G**gle in any way, shape, form or fashion is accepting an invitation to an anal exam every time you go online.

Court Docs Reveal that Google Shares Data on Keyword Searches with Police

...According to a report by CNET, Google is sharing data on search keywords with police departments around the country. Recently published court documents suggest that Google is handing over the identity of all users that have searched a specific keyword that may be relevant to a police investigation....


Fuck your 4th Amendment right "to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches."

[Beetlegeuse]

Fakebook Removes Black Man’s Anti-Biden Ad

Graham Piro - October 27, 2020 2:30 PM

Facebook removed a black man's ad that criticized Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's record on crime and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement just days before the election.

The censorship comes in the midst of an uproar over social media platforms' alleged bias against conservative writers and causes in the closing days of the 2020 campaign.

The advertisement, which Brandon Wallace wrote for the conservative American Principles Project, spotlights Biden's record of supporting policies that "keep black men from raising their children," pointing to his support for enhanced criminal sentencing during his four-decade career and praise for Black Lives Matter, which has openly called for the end of the nuclear family.

"Twenty-six years ago, Vice President Biden admitted that crime in the black community was caused by society," the ad's female narrator says. "Democrats said there was no hope for blacks like my grandfather. They left him in jail, even though he changed… Soon, I was born—no father and no grandfather."

The narrator claims that Biden "supports the BLM organization that also wants to keep black men from raising their children."

Wallace noted that now-deleted language in the Black Lives Matter platform supporting the disruption of the "Western-prescribed nuclear family structure." The group called for "extended families" and "villages" instead before deleting the language because of criticism.



"If you examine the since-deleted passage, there are several messages hidden within that, when examined from the perspective of a father in a nuclear family as I am, paint a clear picture of BLM's true belief," Wallace said. "What it means to me is that fathers, as a head of the family, have no place in their organization."

Facebook cited a fact check from a website called Lead Stories, which said that Wallace's claims have "no proof" and that Biden has not "formally endorsed" Black Lives Matter. Biden has spoken favorably in campaign advertisements about the activist movement but has resisted endorsing many of the group's proposals.

Lead Stories further argued that the abolition of the nuclear family does not specifically "refer to Black men raising children" and that the movement's website contains "no reference to wanting to keep Black men from raising their children."

Politifact also fact checked the claim that BLM supports the abolition of the nuclear family.

"We found that while Black Lives Matter seeks change in how ‘family' is defined, especially with respect to public policy, it’s a leap to conclude that it wants to eliminate traditional family structures," it stated.

American Principles Project executive director Terry Schilling said the advertisement's removal is further evidence of social media companies trying to swing the election in favor of Biden.

Facebook also removed a September American Principles Project ad that criticized Biden and Michigan senator Gary Peters (D.) for their support of the Equality Act. Politifact had deemed the advertisement "potentially misleading" but did not point to specific factual errors.

Facebook did not respond to a request for comment.

https://freebeacon.com/media/faceboo...anti-biden-ad/