Google whistleblower Zach Vorhies, co-author with Kent Heckenlively of the new book Google Leaks: A Whistleblower’s Exposé of Big Tech Censorship, explained how Google “re-wrote their news algorithms to particularly go after Trump” in an interview with the Epoch Times.
Vorhies passed hundreds of internal files to Project Veritas in 2019, consisting of products from the company’s YouTube search blacklist showing direct interference in democratic votes.
In his interview with the Epoch Times, Vorhies displayed internal files showing how Google ranks news stories. “This is called realtime, hive-mind scoring,” stated Vorhies. “They actually built it, they re-wrote it according to the battle that Trump was having with [James] Comey.”
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Asked by Date Times job interviewer Joshua Phillipp whether this was simply a method for Google to emerge leading news stories, Vorhies explained that the quality of search engine result has actually decreased, with users wanting to competing search engines.
“It’s not for increasing market share in the United States … their competitors are having rapid growth.”
“The way that they enabled the mainstream media to structure their stories so they could remain at the top of their search index, their news index.”
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Phillipp kept in mind that the Epoch Times used to frequently remain in the top 10 news outcomes for newspaper article, but were “gotten” eventually.
Breitbart News has actually also been censored by Google, with search analysis data exposing that by 2020, the exposure of Breitbart links on Google has come by 99.7 percent compared to 2016, regardless of no corresponding fall in traffic. Breitbart News also revealed that presence on searches for “Joe Biden” dropped to absolutely no.
Google Biden Search Graph Vorhies discussed that Google appoints each site a PageRank rating, which it does not expose to website owners. Vorhies noted that Google has even ignored congressional subpoenas for PageRank scores.
“They base the score off of what the mainstream media states, and also what Wikipedia says. Now the issue with Wikipedia is that they’ve gone from using primary sources to utilizing secondary sources that describe the main sources.”
“Simply put, media companies are controlling the whole system,” said Phillipp.
“Yeah. So when you get a negative story, your site will likely deal with a [PageRank] penalty within the next 3-6 months. So it’s truly crucial for companies out there if they get hit, if they get slandered, to go force a retraction because if they do not it’s going to end up on Wikipedia and then this defamation-laundering engine called Wikipedia will cause their search ranking engine on Google to go down.”
“The PageRank score utilized to change really gradually, like the requirements was incrementally updated, without that lots of modifications from quarter to quarter, now the changes are coming much more quickly. That’s due to the fact that the authoritativeness is changing so rapidly. So for example, if you point out the WHO and Dr. Fauci from a year back– today that’s going to be misinformation.”
“Now that we have this rapid altering of the narrative pretty much each month now, they require to have an automated method which they can … shift the meaning of truth and then re-rank all the different news articles based on that.”
Breitbart News will continue to report on Google censorship.