A leaked Google video published by right-leaning publication Breitbart shows why Donald Trump might have a point about being hated by the tech behemoth.
Donald Trump had earlier claimed that the popular search engine was suppressing favorable stories about him in exchange for more unfavorable stories in a bid to mold the narrative.
The tech Giant denied this, stating that they have in no way tampered with the algorithm to discredit Trump.
However, the video leaked by Breitbart, which was of Google’s first all-hands meeting following the 2016 presidential election, showed top execs of the company complaining bitterly about the Trump win.
Co-founder Sergey Brin who took to the stage first was very critical of Trump’s win and even mentioned that it was a win that went against ‘our values’
Brin who identifies as an immigrant has always been outspoken about his views on Trump and his policies and from the video it could be seen that the executives were in a pretty somber mood.
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The leak of the video caused massive controversy online with many commenting on how it looks and even Donald Trump’s son sarcastically saying; “But they’re not at all biased at google.”
You can check some of the reactions below
But they’re not at all biased at google. https://t.co/o0Izco5ROE
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) September 12, 2018
It’s not just that the Google execs in the video are sad/angry about the election results – they begin to brainstorm ideas to leverage their platform to stop it from happening again https://t.co/GOLC6FSXvi
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) September 12, 2018
What an extraordinary look into the bowels of the far, far left of America. And they run Google. https://t.co/A1ez16CDPi
— Brent Bozell (@BrentBozell) September 12, 2018
.@google needs to explain why this isn’t a threat to the Republic. Watch the video. Google believes they can shape your search results and videos to make you “have their values”. Open borders. Socialism. Medicare 4 all. Congressional hearings! Investigatehttps://t.co/jlbSgMMrLT
— Brad Parscale (@parscale) September 12, 2018
https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/1040019413934592002
It doesn't matter if you're a Republican or a Democrat, liberal or conservative — we should all be concerned about any kind of bias or agenda emanating from a company that processes more than 90% of all internet searches https://t.co/MJmkIXVE33
— Kristin Fisher (@KristinFisher) September 13, 2018
Google execs watching that video on Drudge today are basically the Trump team when Omarosa dropped her tape. You have no idea what comes next.
Per the Breitbart article, these pow-wows are WEEKLY meetings.
— BMichaelDunn (@VolbeckWasRight) September 13, 2018
umm… WOW. Breitbart just dropped video of a full TGIF (Google's confidential company-wide meeting) the day after the election.
Might send a bottle of scotch to Google D.C. What a nightmare…https://t.co/HSWT4bP48x
— Luther Lowe (@lutherlowe) September 12, 2018
LEAKED VIDEO: Google’s co-founder, Sergei Brin, its CEO, Sundar Pichai, and numerous other high-ranking “Googlers” speaking in turn about the election’s tragic outcomehttps://t.co/OHJNlq2mkJ
— Alexander Еdbом (@alexanderedbom) September 13, 2018
Google has reacted to this leak, however, saying that at the meeting, everyone aired their personal views but that this does not in any way affect the way they operate or cause them to act with bias towards any particular agenda.
According to ABC, Google in a statement said: “At a regularly scheduled all hands meeting, some Google employees and executives expressed their own personal views in the aftermath of a long and divisive election season. For over 20 years, everyone at Google has been able to freely express their opinions at these meetings,” a Google spokesperson said. “Nothing was said at that meeting, or any other meeting, to suggest that any political bias ever influences the way we build or operate our products.”
Like everything on there internet, there’s usually a little more nuance to things. The meeting was over an hour long and everyone had a bit of a say. The video has been embedded below.
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