A Google staffer today released documents exposing a massive censorship campaign where the ubiquitous Google search engine purposefully censored pro-life and conservative web sites, including
LifeNews.com.
Google Insider Zachary Vorhies has given an interview to watchdog group Project Veritas where he discusses how he documented Google censorship of leading pro-life and conservative web sites for over a year. He made the decision to go public in an on-the-record video interview after Google went after him following the release of the information to Project Veritas.
He decided to go public after receiving a letter from Google, and after he says
Google allegedly called the police to perform a “wellness check” on him.
Along with the interview, Vorhies asked Project Veritas to publish more of the internal Google documents he had previously leaked.
“I gave the documents to Project Veritas, I had been collecting the documents for over a year. And the reason why I collected these documents was because I saw something dark and nefarious going on with the company and I realized that they were going to not only tamper with the elections, but use that tampering with the elections to essentially overthrow the United States,” he said.
Project Veritas has
released hundreds of internal Google documents leaked by Vorhies. Among those documents is
a file called “news black list site for google now.” The document, according to Vorhies, is a “black list,” which restricts certain websites from appearing on news feeds for an Android Google product. The list includes conservative and pro-life web sites like LifeNews.com, Newsbusters, Gateway Pundit, Glenn Beck and the Media Research Center.
In June, Project Veritas published internal Google documents
revealing “algorithmic unfairness” towards pro-life and conservative web sites like LifeNews. Vorhies told Project Veritas these were documents that were widely available to full-time Google employees.
“These documents were available to every single employee within the company that was full-time. And so as a full-time employee at the company, I just searched for some keywords and these documents started to pop up. And so once I started finding one document and started finding keywords for other documents and I would enter that in and continue this cycle until I had a treasure trove and archive of documents that clearly spelled out the system, what they’re attempting to do in very clear language.”
Shortly after releasing the information, Vorhies
received a letter from Google containing several “demands.” Vorhies told Project Veritas that he complied with Google’s demands, which included a request for any internal Google documents he may have personally retained. Vorhies also said he sent those documents to the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.
After having been identified by an anonymous account (which Vorhies believes belongs to a Google employee,) on social media as a “leaker,” Vorhies was approached by law enforcement at his residence in California.
According to Vorhies, San Francisco police received a call from Google which prompted a “wellness check.”
Vorhies described the incident to Project Veritas:https://youtu.be/g1VeElBAeas
“they got inside the gate, the police, and they started
banging on my door… And so the police decided that they were going to
call in additional forces. They called in the FBI, they called in the
SWAT team. And they called in a bomb squad.”
“[T]his is a large way in which [Google tries to] intimidate their employees that go rogue on the company…”
Partial video of the incident was provided to Project Veritas.
San Francisco police confirmed to Project Veritas that they did receive a “mental health call,” and responded to Vorhies’ address that day.
Another
newly published document titled “Fringe ranking/classifer: Defining channel quality” lists an example ranking of various news sites, including CNN and FOX News.
A document titled “Fake news & other fringe: Trashy recap” reveals that videos are rated by multiple “human raters.”
Vorhies told Project Veritas that he hopes more insiders at Google decide to go public and discuss big tech abuses.
“My message to those that are on the fence is I released
the documents. They can go in, they can see everything that Google is
doing and then they can see the scale of it. Because I think that
there’s a lot of engineers that have a hint that things are wrong, but
they don’t understand the colossal scale that it’s at. And so for those
people, I say, look at the documents, take the pulse of America, see
what’s happening and come and tell the world you know what you already
know to be true.”
Project Veritas requested comment from Google on this story but did not receive a response at the time of this publication. Google has also not responded to a media query from LifeNews.
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