{"id":109554,"date":"2016-11-13T07:19:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T15:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109554"},"modified":"2023-08-29T04:57:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T12:57:26","slug":"lat-silicon-valley-searches-for-the-trump-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109554","title":{"rendered":"LAT: Silicon Valley searches for the Trump playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Los Angeles Times<\/a> article says nothing about how Big Tech tried to rig the election against Donald Trump and how his administration will seek justice. Why would a President Trump continue to allow Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc to discriminate against his point of view?<\/p>\n

This website, for example, has been blackballed from Google’s search results since Aug. 17 even though Google’s own webmaster tools say the site is clean. <\/p>\n

Trump supporters know that Wall Street, Big Tech, Big Journalism, the Democratic and Republican parties tried to rig this election against Trump and they want justice. <\/p>\n

As the New York Observer reported Aug. 12, 2016<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Tech Companies Apple, Twitter, Google and Instagram Collude to Defeat Trump
\nThere is no such thing as Pro-Trump free speech as Clinton corporate allies serve up a carefully curated view of the campaign<\/p>\n

Apple isn\u2019t the only corporation doing Clinton\u2019s bidding. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said Clinton made a deal with Google and that the tech giant is \u201cdirectly engaged\u201d in her campaign. It\u2019s been widely reported Clinton hired Eric Schmidt\u2014chairman of Alphabet, the parent company of Google\u2014to set up a tech company called The Groundwork. Assange claims this was to ensure Clinton had the \u201cengineering talent to win the election.\u201d He also pointed out that many members of Clinton\u2019s staff have worked for Google, and some of her former employees now work at Google.<\/p>\n

So it should come as no surprise that there have been multiple reports accusing Google of manipulating searches to bury negative stories about Clinton. SourceFed details how Google alters its auto-complete functions to paint Clinton in a positive light.<\/p>\n

For example, when you type \u201cHillary Clinton cri\u201d into other engines like Yahoo! or Bing, the most popular autofills are \u201cHillary Clinton criminal charges\u201d but in Google it\u2019s \u201cHillary Clinton crime reform.\u201d Google denies they changed their algorithm to help Clinton, and insists the company does not favor any candidate. They also claim their algorithms don\u2019t show predicted queries that are offensive or disparaging.<\/p>\n

But Google has gotten into hot water on multiple occasions for connecting Trump to Adolf Hitler. In June, when users searched \u201cwhen Hitler was born\u201d it generated the expected information on Hitler but also an image of Trump. In July, searches for Trump\u2019s book, Crippled America, returned images of Adolf Hitler\u2019s manifesto Mein Kampf. Google has since fixed both\u2014but again, why do these issues always conveniently disparage Trump and help Clinton?<\/p>\n

Twitter is another culprit. The company has gotten a lot of slack for banning conservatives and Trump supporters such as Breitbart\u2019s Milo Yiannopoulos and, most recently, rapper Azealia Banks after she came out in support of Trump. Twitter has provided vague answers as to why conservative voices have been banned while they\u2019ve allowed other users to call for the killing of cops.<\/p>\n

Just yesterday, Buzzfeed revealed that the social media giant\u2019s top executive personally protected the President from seeing critical messages last year. \u201cIn 2015, then-Twitter CEO Dick Costolo secretly ordered employees to filter out abusive and hateful replies to President Barack Obama.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year, Twitter isn\u2019t just banning conservatives\u2014the platform also changed its algorithms to promote Clinton while giving negative exposure to Trump.<\/p>\n

The founders of some of the most popular pro-Trump Twitter handles\u2014including @USAforTrump2016 and @WeNeedTrump\u2014insist Twitter is censoring their content. They\u2019ve pointed out that Twitter changes trending hashtags associated with negative tweets about Clinton (which has been reported before). On August 4, shortly after the hashtag \u201cHillaryAccomplishment\u201d began trending, it was taken over by anti-Clinton users, who used it to mention Benghazi or Emailgate. Eric Spracklen, @USAforTrump2016 founder, noticed the hashtag was quickly changed\u2014pluralized to #HillarysAccomplishments.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey take away the hashtag that has negative tweets for Clinton and replace it with something that doesn\u2019t so the average person doesn\u2019t see what was really trending,\u201d Spracklen said. \u201cThis happens every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jack Murphy, founder of @WeNeedTrump, says followers complain they often aren\u2019t able to retweet his pro-Trump tweets.<\/p>\n

Instagram has also banned accounts that depict Clinton in a negative light. In June, a conservative comedy group called Toughen Up America was banned with no warning or explanation. Last week, the popular Australian-based graffiti artist, Lushsux, was banned from Instagram after he posted photos of a bikini-clad Clinton mural he painted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to sound like a conspiracy theorist with a tin foil hat, but the timing of the Hillary Clinton mural posting and the deletion that ensued can\u2019t just be a coincidence,\u201d he told the Daily Mail Australia. Lushsux has posted photos of way more graphic murals, including a topless Melania Trump and a naked Donald with his package in full sight. These images did not trigger any censorship from Instagram.<\/p>\n

Facebook has a long history of shutting down pages and blocking conservative users while promoting progressive voices like Black Lives Matter activists. The problem became so transparent that Sen. John Thune sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg asking him to explain their practices.<\/p>\n

Paul Joseph Watson writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

According to top psychologist Robert Epstein, the power of Google\u2019s algorithm to manipulate public opinion is so strong that it can influence up to 10 million undecided voters, ensuring a victory for Hillary Clinton.
\nAfter several years of research involving more than 10,000 people in 39 countries, Epstein concluded that Google has \u201cthe power to control elections\u201d and that by favoring one candidate over another in some demographics up to 80 percent of undecided voters can be easily manipulated.
\nGoogle\u2019s long standing support for Hillary Clinton runs so deep, that Google parent company Alphabet\u2019s Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt, met with Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and asked if he could be Hillary\u2019s \u201chead outside advisor.\u201d
\n\u201cMany people have established that Google has a very close relationship with Hillary Clinton,\u201d Epstein told RT, adding that, \u201cGoogle seems to be favoring Hillary Clinton in its search suggestions, the suggestions it gives you when you first start to type an item.\u201d
\nBack in August, we proved how Google had altered its search algorithm to prevent searches for \u201cClinton body count\u201d from auto-completing, despite the term auto-completing when typed in on virtually any other search engine.
\nBack in June it was revealed by SourceFed that Google was indeed manipulating its search results to bury unflattering stories about Hillary.
\n\u201cFor example, when typing \u201cHillary Clinton cri,\u201d Google\u2019s auto-complete function brings up as its top choice \u201cHillary Clinton crime reform,\u201d even though competing search engines Bing and Yahoo show the most popular search topics are \u201cHillary Clinton criminal charges\u201d and \u201cHillary Clinton crime,\u201d reported the Washington Times.
\nIn August last year, Politico reported on how \u201cGoogle could rig the 2016 election\u201d by altering its search algorithms.
\nEpstein also noted that Facebook has the power to shift up to 600,000 voters on election day by simply sending out targeted reminders to Hillary Clinton supporters telling them to vote, while not sending out the same reminder to Trump supporters.
\nAccording to Epstein, who is a Clinton supporter himself, \u201cHillary Clinton is guaranteed to win this election\u201d by approximately 6.5 million votes because polls don\u2019t take into account Google\u2019s algorithm to control the behavior of up to 10 million voters.
\n\u201cGoogle\u2019s algorithm has probably been determining the outcomes of close elections around the world for many years, probably actually controlling the winner in as many as 25 percent of the national elections of the world,\u201d warns Epstein, adding that Google\u2019s power was \u201cunprecedented in human history\u201d and constitutes a dangerous \u201cthreat to democracy\u201d because it has no competitor and is automatically trusted more than any newspaper, magazine or television station.<\/p>\n

Steve Sailer writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

If you go to Google and type in American inventors<\/em> you get back from Google pictures of the top American inventors of all time.<\/p>\n

The #1 American inventor of all time is Lewis Howard Latimer, who, I just learned, worked with both Edison and Bell.<\/p>\n

Thomas Edison is in 6th place and a well-tanned Alexander Graham Bell in 9th place, with ten black inventors rounding out the top dozen.<\/p>\n

In the second dozen, Samuel Morse is 19th, Eli Whitney 20th, and Ben Franklin 23rd. Everybody else is black.<\/p>\n

The Wright Brothers<\/a> don’t make the top 50 American inventors, according to Google.<\/p>\n

Thanks to John Rivers’ Twitter account<\/a> for this.<\/p>\n

In contrast, if I Google Scottish inventors<\/em>, I get:<\/p>\n

If I type in French inventors, I get:<\/p>\n

Presumably, Google must get a lot of requests for “African American inventors” and assumes that’s what you really meant when you ask for “American inventors.” After all, what kind of sick Nazi do you have to be to be interested in your fellow Americans irrespective of race? That’s racist!<\/p>\n

This phenomenon appears to be tied into propagandizing schoolchildren in K-12. For example, if I Google American psychologists<\/em>, a subject only of interest to college and above, I get a pretty reasonable list with William James at #1:<\/p>\n

On the other hand, American mathematicians<\/em>, which is more of a K-12 school report topic than psychologists, is pretty silly:<\/p>\n

(On the other hand, #10 David Blackwell<\/a>, a Berkeley statistician, is fairly legit.)<\/p>\n

One interesting thing is that Hispanics and Asians are completely shut out of this phenomenon.<\/p>\n

Microsoft’s Bing is similar but slightly less absurd with Edison edging out George Washington Carver for the top spot, and Latimer coming behind Franklin and Bell, with Tesla making the top dozen.<\/p>\n

On Bing, Bill Gates is #22, behind Steve Jobs at #19 (Woz doesn’t make the top 50). Hedy Lamarr is #28. Bing’s list is more fun than Google’s, which is mostly just depressing.<\/p>\n

Similarly, here’s Google’s American scientists<\/em>:<\/p>\n

And here’s Bing’s American scientists<\/em>:<\/p>\n

So, Bing’s list is once again less dismal. I don’t mind a sprinkling of Diversity Tokens, but when there’s no room for Oppenheimer or Feynman on Google’s Top Fifty (#8 and #17, respectively, on Bing’s list) because of all the black obscurities, well, that’s just stupid and boring.<\/p>\n

COMMENTS:<\/p>\n

* George Foreman managed to make the list for his Foreman Grill, beating out the Wrights.<\/p>\n

* I was surprised I had to scroll way down the list, directly between obscurities by the name of Henry Ford and Jonas Salk, to find the noted African-American inventor Ben Montgomery.<\/p>\n

As Wikipedia tells it, Montgomery invented a particular kind of steam-operated propeller for boats, albeit \u201c[t]his was not a new invention, but an improvement on similar designs invented by John Stevens in 1804 and John Ericsson in 1838.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, far more important than any potential impact of his invention on human life or commerce, is the fact that Mr. Montgomery was a slave (owned by the brother of Jefferson Davis). No doubt, the movie version of his inspirational tale will be coming soon to theaters near you.<\/p>\n

* I\u2019m getting an inkling of what life must have been like in the Soviet Union and presently in North Korea. This propaganda is relentless.<\/p>\n

* That Google algorithm also lists Ted Kaczynski at #20 under American Mathematicians. AI has come very far if it can simulate a sense of humor.<\/p>\n

* These are the sorts of topics you’d search for if you were raising a genius. <\/p>\n

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How to raise a genius: 8 tips @entrylevelrebel<\/a> <\/a>https:\/\/t.co\/u8BGtJWRuq<\/a><\/p>\n

— Inc. (@Inc) September 20, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n