https://www.infowars.com/huge-google-leak-search-giant-launches-plans-to-de-list-conservative-sites/
Kit Daniels reports
The Google AI tool
used to flag “offensive comments” has a seemingly built-in bias against
conservative and libertarian viewpoints.
Perspective API,
a “machine learning
model” developed by Google which scores “the perceived impact a comment might
have on a conversation” in the comment section of a news article, ranks
comments based on their “toxicity.”
But when testing
out its algorithm, Perspective generally scores conservative and libertarian
comments as more “toxic” than establishment talking points.
…“News
organizations want to encourage engagement and discussion around their content,
but find that sorting through millions of comments to find those that are
trolling or abusive takes a lot of money, labour and time,” said
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Jared Cohen,
president of Jigsaw, the Google affiliate behind Perspective. “As a result,
many sites have shut down comments altogether….”
Video clip: Cernovich: Google Caught Censoring Infowars And Other Conservative News Sites
Video Clip: Alex Jones and his cousin Buckley authorize fair use reposting of any Infowars material to combat Google Censorship
Adan Salazar of Infowars.com reports:
"Google has hired contractors to remove or limit Alex Jones’
website Infowars.com from its search engines. According to a search engine
evaluator for Google, all contractors have been instructed to actively rate
InfoWars as a low quality and untrusted site.
This email was sent out to all contractors.
“This is a news article from Infowars,” a
screenshot from the contractor training guide on rating PQ (page quality)
notes. “In considering the quality of any article, you should be mindful of
where that article comes from. What reputation does it have, and how might that
reputation affect its day-to-day coverage?”
The instructions to
the contractors provide:
- InfoWars is not an “outright
false” website and is not “among the worst of the worst.”
- “There are a number of
controversial, often debunked claims that the site regularly promotes.”
- InfoWars articles must be
rated “Low to Medium.”
SOROS, GOOGLE FUNDING “NET NEUTRALITY” GROUPS TO CONTROL
INTERNET, CENSOR INFOWARS.COM
$72 million spent
since 2006 to control Internet under guise of "net neutrality"
WASHINGTON, D.C. –
the Obama administration’s version of “net neutrality” rules, AstroTurf
“public interest groups” funded by a combination of Google, George Soros’ Open
Society Institution and the Ford Foundation are lobbying hard to keep control
of the Internet so as to be able to censor conservative news, including
Infowars.com.
In 2015, the Obama
FCC voted on party lines to pass regulations that gave the government more
control over the Internet, which was sold to the U.S. public under the guise of
“net neutrality.”
The regulations
gave the government virtual control over the nation’s Internet infrastructure,
with big government, “New Deal”-style, 1930s-based regulatory powers that
extended to oversee virtually everything that transpires over the Internet,
including content.
Since 2006, these
three entities – Google, George Soros’ Open Society Institution and the Ford
Foundation – have contributed more than $72 million to non-profit leftist
organizations that have been most active in promoting the idea the Internet
needs to be regulated by the government as a “common carrier” public utility
under Title II of the Communications Act – the same regulatory framework
crafted some 80 years ago to regulate the old rotary phone system.
that Google
and the largest communications giants on the Internet lobbied the federal
government to define broadband under these 1930s-style regulations – a
designation that would allow the government to regulate more rigorously the
broadband providers that built the core network connecting users to the
Internet as “common carriers.”
Of course, this
exempts content monopolies like Google and Facebook from the strict regulations
the FCC would apply to common carriers.
The implementation
of these 2015 regulations, which were heavily pushed by Google in hundreds of
closed-door meetings at the Obama White House, carved out Google and the other
Silicon Valley behemoths, and secured their position as absolute information
gatekeepers.
Since these 2015
regulations passed, Google and Facebook have moved to become the judge, jury
and executioner of the contact we read on the Internet, under the guise of
eliminating “fake news.”
While activists on
the political left would be appalled if a company such as Exxon-Mobil funded a
“public interest group” promoting the use of carbon-based fuels, Google has
been given a free pass by the left’s “public interest” machine largely because
of its direct financial support of such groups, as well as its close political
alliance with progressives, including two of the left’s biggest funders — The
Ford Foundation and George Soros – in their efforts to firmly entrench the
federal government in the nation’s communications networks.
Current and former
employees of Google sit on the boards of several of the most active groups that
spent millions to get the 2015 Obama rules passed by the FCC, and are now
spending big to oppose the rollback of the FCC’s regulations.
Other board members
include academics and consultants paid by Google as well as law firms that have
represented Google in several legal matters.
While some leftist
“public interest groups” pushing to keep in place the FCC’s “net neutrality”
rules disclose some of the funding they have received from Google, most do not.
Consider the
following groups:
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
– In 2011, EFF
received $1 million from Google in a settlement over the Google Buzz class
action lawsuit.
– The Ford
Foundation contributed $500,000 to the non-profit between 2013 and 2016
according to the Foundation’s grants page.
– George Soros’
Open Society Institute lists another $620,000 in grants since 2008 according to
OSI’s grants page.
Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)
– Since 2011,
Google has given more than $4.75 million to the non-profit according to its tax
filings.
– The connection
between CDT and Google goes beyond the financial. From 2009 to 2016, the Ford
Foundation has contributed $950,000 to CDT according to Ford’s grants database.
– Since 2008,
Soros’ Open Society Institute has contributed $900,000 to CDT according to
OSI’s grants page.
New America Foundation
– According to New
America Foundation disclosures, Google was the largest corporate contributor to
the organization in 2016, contributing more than $1 million. Google Chairman
Eric Schmidt also contributed more than $1 million to the organization through
his family foundation and served as the Chairman of the New America Foundation
board until 2016.
– Google’s and Eric
Schmidt’s contributions to the New America Foundation from 2012 through 2016
total between $4.75 million and $7 million according to the non-profits current
and archived “funding” pages.
– Through Soros’
numerous foundations including the Open Society Institute, Jennifer and
Jonathan Allan Soros Foundation and others, the New America Foundation has
received between $3 million to $6 million in funding from 2012 to 2016
according to New America’s current and archived “funding” web pages.
Fight for the Future (FFTF)
– As Infowars.com
has previously reported
FFTF is funded by
the Open Internet Defense Fund, a project of George Soros’s Media Democracy
Fund.
– FFTF board
includes several members with close Google financial connections including:
as a Professor of
Law and Director of the Stanford Center for Internet & Society (CIS), a group that boasts
of “generous
support from Google, Inc.”
Marvin Ammori: Listed as president of the FFTF
Education Fund 501(c)3 board, Ammori is the founder of the Ammori Group, a
law firm and public policy firm based in Washington, D.C. and Silicon Valley,
that lists Google as “the largest and most established client we counsel.”
Yochai Benkler: Benkler serves as FFTF’s Board
Secretary and as the Director of the Berkman Klein Center
for Internet &
Society at Harvard University – a center that boasts Google
as it’s top
corporate backer and its fourth-largest donor (Harvard University is fifth).
Public Knowledge
– According to the
Public Knowledge “About” page, Google is a “platinum” financial sponsor of the
non-profit. From 2010 to 2014, Public Knowledge received more than $11 million
in contributions according to the non-profit’s 990 disclosures.
– While Public
Knowledge doesn’t disclose the individual amounts of its contributors, it notes
on its “Sources of Funding” page that between half and two-thirds of its budget
comes from the Ford Foundation, George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, the
Media Democracy Fund and a handful of other foundations.
– According to the
Ford Foundation grant database, Public Knowledge has received more than $7
million in Ford grants since 2006.
– According to the
Open Society Institute’s grants page, Public Knowledge has received $500,000 in
grants from the Soros non-profit since 2009.
Citizen Engagement Lab (CEL)
– While it’s
unclear whether Google itself funds CEL, the Eric & Wendy Schmidt Family
Foundation have given the non-profit $825,000 since 2013 according to the
Foundation’s 990 tax filings.
– The Ford
Foundation has contributed more than $8.9 million to CEL since 2007 according
to the Foundation’s grants database.
– Since 2010,
Soros’ Open Society Institute has contributed $750,000 to CEL according to
OSI’s grants database.
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
– The American
Civil Liberties Union received $7 million in grants from Google in the same
controversial Google Buzz “cy pres” settlement that benefited EFF, CDT and many
of the other non-profits fighting to keep in place the “net neutrality” rule
promulgated by the FCC under the Obama administration.
– From 2011 to
2016, the Ford Foundation has contributed almost $10.5 million to the ACLU
according to the Ford grants database.
– Since 2008,
Soros’ Open Society Institute has contributed $1.14 million to the ACLU
according to OSI’s grant page.
– Under the Orwellian guise of “Internet
freedom” and “civil liberties” these leftist “public interest” groups have
fought since at least 2000 to achieve exactly the opposite – more government
control of the Internet, fighting hard to secure and keep in place the
Obama administration’s big government “net neutrality” regulations.
Bonus: Music That Alex Jones Would Have A Heart Attack Over If Played On INFOWARS Television and Radio (Videos)
[Heh, heh, heh.]
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