[ April 25, 2024 ]
Yesterday, Geller Report and other Conservative sites were completely scrubbed from Google search. Gone. Like we never happened.
I tweeted at google –
https://twitter.com/PamelaGeller/status/1285587480524316672?s=20
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A number of there Conservative sites were disappeared as well.
Google scrambled to explain – calling it a “glitch.” But those of us on the receiving end of Google’s systematic silencing know this is common practice. Google has been scrubbing us for years.
Google Appears To Test Its Ability To Blacklist Conservative Media Ahead Of Election
Emails like this were streaming in:
Google’s right-wing blacklist: Ex-engineer at tech giant says glitch which blocked some conservative websites from appearing in their search may have exposed a secret internal list which suppresses certain outlets
- Google on Tuesday morning for several hours did not display conservative news
- The company says they’re aware of the incident but did not give an explanation
- A former Google engineer told Mediate he believes it exposes a ‘secret blacklist’
- CEO Sundar Pichai says Google doesn’t ‘manually intervene’ in search results
By Harriet Alexander For Dailymail.com, 22 July 2020
Google may have a ‘secret blacklist’ of conservative news outlets, a former engineer at the company has claimed, which he says was exposed on Tuesday when certain websites briefly vanished from Google search results.
Mike Wacker, a Google engineer who was fired from the company in June 2019 amid a row over his conservative ideology, said the brief incident on Tuesday suggested a ‘blacklist’.
‘It appears to have revealed the existence of another blacklist that disproportionately targets conservatives,’ Wacker told Mediaite.
Google on Tuesday briefly stopped displaying conservative news outlets from its search
‘The glitch is that sites on this blacklist disappeared from Google search results, but the existence of the list is very much by design.
‘And that raises a major question: Why was this blacklist created in the first place, and what else is it used for?’
NEWS OUTLETS BLOCKED BY GOOGLE
Breitbart
The National Pulse
The Drudge Report
Human Events
Geller Report
Websites including Breitbart, The National Pulse, The Drudge Report, and Human Events vanished from Google’s listings on Tuesday morning for several hours.
At least one left-leaning website, Occupy Democrats, was also affected.
Legacy media outlets — including The New York Times and Washington Post — did not appear to be harmed.
Dr. Robert Epstein, a researcher who has argued Google has the power to sway up to 10 per cent of American voters in the 2020 election, agreed with Wacker.
‘It’s likely that a person or algorithm at Google added ‘breitbart.com’ and other URLs to one or more of the company’s blacklists,’ Epstein told Mediate.
‘Then, perhaps after some pushback, someone pulled those URLs off the blacklists.’
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, in December 2018 told a House committee the company did not ‘manually intervene on any search result.’
Google said in a statement published on Twitter that it was looking into the issue.
‘We are aware of an issue with the site: command that may fail to show some or any indexed pages from a website,’ the company.
‘We are investigating this and any potentially related issues.’
In response to an inquiry from Mediaite, a spokesman for Google added: ‘This issue affected a number of sites representing a range of different content and viewpoints.
‘This issue was a technical error unrelated to the content or ideology of the sites affected.’
Wacker said the list may have been manually created, or it may have been the product of an algorithm.
That algorithm could have been created by a human, or it could also have been created by an AI that found something about the affected websites so offensive — such as the way users share their content, or the keywords used by those sites — that it blocked them.
Google acknowledged a technical issue but gave no explanation as to the cause
‘One possibility is that sites on this blacklist are being penalized, and the glitch was that the penalty was accidentally set so high that these sites were effectively removed from Google search,’ Wacker told Mediate.
”I’ve found that a lot of people tend to conflate algorithms with AI since they’re both automated, but AI isn’t as objective and mechanical as algorithms are.’
In 2019, the right-leaning Project Veritas released internal Google documents from a former employee suggested the website was seeking to rank websites according to ‘quality.’
One example document used by company employees showed Fox News ranking below CNN and MSNBC.
State-backed Russia Today fell slightly lower on the list, but well above Breitbart.
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9 Comments
3 years ago
It could have been a test run. Or someone decided to just do it to see what happens.
Obviously, Google is categorising what it approves and what it doesn’t. Which are the conservative sites and which are on the left.
Always a glitch. Yea, right. And always just one sacrificial leftist site to make it look like it wasn’t specific to conservatives.
Why does this list even exist? Why are hate groups still up and on searches?
BTW, don’t use Google search. Use something like Duck Duck Go where your searches aren’t logged or archived. Also check if your System folder has files named “Keystone”. They usually are from Google, supposedly monitoring if you need updates from Google, but it does this a lot every day and sends unknown data back to Google without you knowing.
Google: Modern day Big Brother.
3 years ago
It is intentional to throw the election to DEMS. Google has been doing this for years. Use https://duckduckgo.com/?q=&bext=wcr&atb=v125-7__ and you will be amazed at the different search results you get.
3 years ago
They are afraid loosing power they thought they have it already.
It´s an open fight, Yesterday Qanon, today geller, they don´t hide it anymore. Knowing that nobody believe their excuses anymore they demand submissive behaviour.
3 years ago
Reply to
Es werde Licht
Hasn’t Qanon been legitmately discredited?
Are you a “q dropper”? I have heard it is some kind of a weird cult. Is it?
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Banned from Twitter.
I only have the german version but as far I´ve seen Qanon was accurate.
Ok, many can make a platform like Qanon but this people have been right about timing with the clinton-mueller-and outcoming of classitied dokuments.
Maybe Mossad, maybe Russian, maybe who knows – but not without facts what no others tell you.
To be honest OAN is better.
Btw.: Do you believe that Tucker Carlson will sh*g a stupid woman like Areu. I mean I´ve seen his look at her what shows how stupid she was in his opinion.
3 years ago
I think it was a practice program, a Beta, that was not supposed to operational until late September.
The Geller Report was in good company. Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, Powerline, The New Americanist all reort they were removed as a primary search result, although some could be found as secondary topic related.
Yahoo also was part of the scheme.
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Bing and Duck were not.
3 years ago
Off topic and ridiculous!
Another feeble attempt to shut opposing views down.
BREAKING: Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Ed Henry Named In Sexual Harassment Lawsuit By Alleged ‘Sex Slave’ – Report Says
July 20, 2020 Chief Editor
A former Fox News employee has filed a bombshell lawsuit claiming that she was raped by former Fox News reporter Ed Henry and sexually harassed by Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson.
Jennifer Eckhart, a former producer for Fox Business Network, filed her lawsuit on Monday in the US District Court for Southern New York, the Daily Mail reported.
Eckhart claims that Henry – who was fired from the network on July 1 after an unnamed employee accused him of sexual misconduct – handcuffed her and raped her in a hotel room after trying to coerce her into a sexual relationship.
Areu claims she was sexually harassed by Henry, 49, and several other men at the network – including star anchors Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson and journalists Howard Kurtz and Gianno Caldwell.
The lawsuit describes how Hannity allegedly offered staff $100 to take Areu on a date while she served as a regular face on his primetime show in 2018.
“It is widely documented in the public record that Fox News has not only cultivated and fostered sexual harassment and misconduct, but has consistently accepted and rewarded it,” the complaint said.
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“Mr. Henry not only leveraged this imbalance of power for control over his victim, Ms. Eckhart, but asked her to be his “sex slave” and his “little w***e,” and threatened punishment and retaliation if Ms. Eckhart did not comply with his sexual demands.
“When she would not comply voluntarily, he sexually assaulted her on office property, and raped her at a hotel where Fox News frequently lodged its visiting employees, thereby facilitating, whether knowingly or unknowingly, Mr. Henry’s conduct,” it said.
A spokesperson for Fox News vigorously denied any wrongdoing on their part in a statement made to The Daily Mail.
“Based on the findings of a comprehensive independent investigation conducted by an outside law firm, including interviews with numerous eyewitnesses, we have determined that all of Cathy Areu’s claims against FOX News, including its management as well as its hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity & Howard Kurtz and its contributor Gianno Caldwell, are false, patently frivolous and utterly devoid of any merit,” they said.
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https://conservativebrief.com/breaking-tucker-carlson-sean-hannity-ed-henry-named-in-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-by-alleged-sex-slave-23547/?utm_source=ConservativeBrief.com&utm_medium=direct
Most likely they REJECTED her advances if anything happened.
Here is Cathy Areu with a friend… Using fake rape and harassment claims to get opposing political views silent is getting to be ridiculous!
Cathy Areu puts out the “Liberal Sherpa” to supplement her income. She is a Hispanic that hates Trump! Another one on the lawsuit is liberal Jennifer Eckhart.
Jennifer Eckhart
3 years ago
The Gateway Pundit and PJ Media also disappeared from Google search results yesterday. Curiously, no left wing sites or millions of adwords-buying commercial sites disappeared. Instead, propaganda sites that trashed and discredited the missing sites appeared within top 10 results.
Given the obvious targeting, there’s only two possibilities.
A) someone inside Google did this, possibly as an internal test but it went live by mistake
B) a third party with a very advanced knowledge of Google’s ranking algorithm messed with the results before Google “fixed” it.
Either way, it’s nefarious. Expect much more of this. Leftists are capable of anything.
3 years ago
Avoid evil. Don’t use Google.
