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Former Google Engineer Says Google Will Try to Prevent Trump from Being Re-Elected in 2020
• https://needtoknow.news, Fox NewsFriday on Fox News Channel's "Tucker Carlson Tonight," former Google engineer Kevin Cernekee argued there was political bias within the tech giant.
Cernekee claimed to have been bullied and ultimately fired for his right-wing beliefs. However, Cernekee said it was his view that Google would attempt to thwart President Donald Trump's re-election in 2020.
Partial transcript as follows:
CARLSON: How ideological is the management at Google?
CERNEKEE: It's highly ideological. You can see bias at every level at the organization. One thing that I noticed that just handling routine issues is plagued with bias. Like they will get a report, an email with a liberal reporter complaining about something and they will jump on it and they will fix the issue very, very quickly. In contrast, one thing that I saw when I worked there was if you do a Google search for "Crippled America," which is Donald Trump's book you would get results that would show "Mein Kampf" instead of "Crippled America." And I reported that I filed a bug, I escalated it, I tried to run it up the chain. They took nine months to fix that bug.
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1 Comments in Response to Former Google Engineer Says Google Will Try to Prevent Trump from Being Re-Elected in 2020
Good for them. As a private company, they have the right to use their platform to influence public discourse as they see fit, as newspaper and book publishers have done throughout the history of our republic. Criticism of the fourth estate as biased is often the "sour grapes" reaction of any side who has failed to effectively harness the medium. Of course they are biased. Even a nominally neutral platform will be labeled partisan if the unadulterated facts it reports tend to support one policy approach over the other, or if it tends to penalize speakers of one ideology more than its opponents, even for bona fide violations of its terms of use. Facebook, Google, YouTube and Reddit's platforms are private properties. They have the right to operate their platforms as they see fit, including to influence public opinion and to silence certain opinions entirely -- this is the essence of private property rights. These websites are not public forums because America is not a socialist state.