So, Google has been caught manipulating AI images to ensure they fit with its ideological worldview. The backlash was quick, expected and fully justified. There is only one word to describe Gemini AI and that’s ‘racist’. There are those that will bleat it was just a bug and there is nothing untoward about the AI’s creators, but this is false. AIs always embody the spirit of their creators.
Based in California and worth more than the entire Chinese stock market combined, Google is the size of Canada’s economy. This is the company the world trusts with 91% of all search enquiries, our latest news, video content, weather reports, maps, email and music selection, among other things. Globally, over 70% of us use its software to run our phones and businesses spent over $230 billion advertising products and services using its platforms in 2023. It’s fair to say that everyone uses a Google product in one way or another.
This is significant because not only does Google hold colossal amounts of your data, it’s also the gatekeeper of the information you receive. Even more worryingly, it’s now manipulating the past.
Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.
— George Orwell, 1984
When it comes to censorship, Google is leading the charge. There is now substantial evidence that Google manually manipulates search results based on its own internal values. Just type in “Jordan Peterson” and see what comes up. Search the “Daily Sceptic” and the second result is Google’s own ‘fact checker’, claiming the site is harmful and a purveyor of ‘misinformation’.
Google controls nearly 90% of all website ads, meaning it can turn up or down the amount of money a publisher can make, or even stop them making any money at all.
Working alongside Google and big tech is an army of NGOs and ‘fact checkers’. Fact checkers such as the Trusted News Network were set up by mainstream media outlets working alongside Google and – like trying to keep cupped water in your hand – this is part of legacy media’s last gasp to control the narrative. Fact checkers claim to review content and ‘rate its accuracy’ – but what they actually mean is ‘determine whether this content complies with my ideological biases’. When content does not pass their warped accreditation process they slap a ‘fake news’ label on it and work with their accomplices in big tech to remove, shadow ban or deprioritise it in things like search engine results. Worse still, they remove the sites ability to use Google’s network to serve ads and therefore, in most cases, are also removing the sites’ ability to generate revenue. (The Daily Sceptic is banned from using Google’s ad-server.)
The Global Disinformation Index (GDI) and other NGOs like NewsGuard and Graphika aim to assess and rate the reliability of news sources to ‘help’ users assess how trustworthy they are. If NewsGuard deems a website to be trafficking in ‘mis-’ or ‘disinformation’ it will rate it ‘unsafe’ and share that assessment with its Big Tech friends who will then remove, shadow ban or de-monetise the site.
Google and other Big Tech companies also have their own foundations and initiatives to increase their influence, such as Google News Initiative, which “works with publishers and journalists to fight misinformation”. Or there’s Facebook’s Journalism Project, which “partners with news publishers and nonprofits to combat misinformation”, i.e., opinions that run contrary to theirs.
You may be wondering where all the money to fund the censorship industrial complex is coming from?
Apart from mainstream media companies and Big Tech creating and funding their own apparatus of censorship, there is a complex web of philanthropists donating to foundations, and foundations donating to NGOs, and so on. But you don’t have to dig too far to find the usual suspects. George Soros and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have given money to various fact-checking outfits, and everyone from UNICEF to Rockefeller, to the Brown School of Public Health are getting in on the censorship action.
More worryingly, both the U.K. and U.S. governments are also funding and supporting these organisations. The U.S. State Department is violating the U.S. Constitution by funding organisations seeking to silence Americans who question the Government’s claims, according to a lawsuit filed by the Federalist, the Daily Wire and the state of Texas. While in the U.K., the Counter-Disinformation Unit (CDU) was set up by ministers to tackle supposed domestic ‘threats’, and was used to target those critical of the lockdown policy, as well as the Government’s pandemic response more widely. The GDI is part-funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
Big Tech, and in particular Google, has extraordinary power. It is up-ranking its ideological viewpoints and down-ranking anybody who disagree with them. It is also lying to us about it. Google says that there is “nothing to suggest that any political bias ever influences the way we build or operate our products. To the contrary, our products are built for everyone”.
Toby and I have recently launched a new ad platform to fight back against Big Tech and ad agencies colluding to suppress free speech and aims to funnel ad revenue to all content creators, not just those deemed acceptable by Google and its partners.
The agents of censorship are pushing a poisonous, anti-Western ideology. They are well funded, well organised and self-righteous, convinced that they are entitled to be the judges of what we can and can’t read. The time has come for those of us who care about free speech to step in and change the game.
Lee Taylor is the Managing Director of marketing agency Uncommon Sense. You can contact him on email here. Find Uncommon Ad Space on X. The Uncommon Ad Space website can be found here.
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Google – started by the CIA.
Farcebook – started by the CIA.
Oracle – its first and still biggest client – CIA.
etc ad nauseum.
CIA-DoD run the US and most of the world. The Rona tard scamdemic was a pilot project of theirs. The 2020 election fraud. Climate. The endless wars….
Snowden, Assange….truth tellers. Yet the sheeple hear not. 1 person in 10 might be clued in that the CIA-DoD is behind most of what is going on.
The US is the single biggest threat on the planet. You only have to watch the glee of US pilots bombing civilian lines during the Iraq ‘war’ (replace ‘war’ with US control of oil supplies) to understand the sickness that pervades that country. Watch them bang their hand to their chest when their national anthem is played and tell me they’re not the most brainwashed population on the planet. They’ve been sold a story. A story that’s been told since the beginning of their history – the US is the only really free country on earth. Tell your hostage’s the same story on repeat forever and they stop becoming hostage’s. They become willing accomplices in a cult.
Totally agree.
55 or more conflicts since 1945.
Rona scamdemic – the ultimate wet dream for fascists. CIA DoD project.
As was the stolen US election of 2020. No more than 130 million will vote in a US election (out of 160 mn). Drumpf won 80 mn (millions burnt etc). Pedo-criminal-half wit-money launderer CIA stooge Biden won max 50 million. I am guessing it is more likely 40 mn.
How do you get away from google and google chrome?Is there any way we can keep information away from these creatures? I believe the Google business original mantra was “Do no evil”, how very far they have strayed since then, they are a malignant parasite on humanity
I use duckduckgo as a search engine. It’s good for privacy and is generally censor-free (although it has engaged in censorship over the Ukraine/NATO/Russian war).
https://duckduckgo.com/
Using Brave is the best way I know of currently: https://brave.com/
Don’t use Google products. It’s fairly easy to find alternatives.
Why not?
DuckDuckGo, Brave, Safari, Firefox are alternatives to Chrome.
DuckDuckGo also has a search engine that can be used with any browser as an alternative to Google.
De-google-ify!
https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/
It’s/They are ven worse. Much worse. https://brownstone.org/articles/google-has-usurped-democracy/
Switch to protonmail, for a start.
I’ve got Gmail but more and more I’m using protomail.
There are alternatives…. DuckDuckGo for one.
Curious that Wikipedia is not mentioned. A wiki search on DS makes an interesting reading, and even better on TY, where even his achievements are shown as negatives. I wonder if G & W are related.
I put Wikipedia’s extreme left wing bias down to the fact that lefties have nothing better to do than jump all over Wikipedia smearing people they disagree with, whereas those not on the left prefer to get on with their lives, working, spending time with their families and leaving other people the hell alone. Perhaps it’s just a fantasy of mine though.
Yandex
It would be if there was a list of advertisers that use Uncommon Ad Space and a list of advertisers that boycott free speech platforms. I would use it to inform what companies I buy from.
This is the final nail in the Google coffin for me, I now use DuckDuckGo
Stop using google. Its simple. Brave/DuckDuckGo work perfectly fine. Google Intelligence governed. The alternates I mention, at least there’s a chance they are genuine and not controlled by the same evil.