American Thinker contributor Peter Barry Chowka has the
update (“Whistleblower: American Thinkerwas on Google’s blacklist of news sites”):
Buried deep in the extensive trove
of internal documents documenting Google’s onerous censorship policies is this
gem: American Thinker was on the
dominant tech giant’s list of “blacklisted” news websites.
The source of the leak is
identified as “Google Insider Zachary Vorhies.” On August 14, Vorhies outed
himself as the leaker in a video
posted at Project Veritas, which published the documents. Among the
hundreds of documents is one identified
as a news “blacklist” -- titled “Manual list of sites excluded from
appearing as Google Now stories.” Sure enough, among the list of 400 or so
sites (mostly from the conservative right but some on the left) -- under the
subhead “sites with high user block rate” -- is americanthinker.com.
. . .
Vorhies had been providing Project
Veritas with documents he downloaded as a Google engineer for more than a year.
He decided to go public this week “after he says Google allegedly called the
police to perform a ‘wellness check’ on him.” The story, including a 20-minute
long video of Vorhies, is a compelling one and is documented in the August
14 release
from Project Veritas.
According to Vorhies:
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 there were going to not only
tamper with the elections, but use that tampering with the elections to
essentially overthrow the United States.
Hyperbole? I don’t think so. More at American Thinker here. The list of blacklisted blogs is here. Many of my favorite bookmarked blogs are on the
list. The report with video at Project Veritas is here. Google’s attempts to
intimidate the whistleblower are chilling.
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