Julian Assange: Google Working Closely with Hillary Clinton’s Campaign

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/google-working-closely-with-hillary-clinton-presidential-campaign-julian-assange-34780998.html

by Jerry2 • 10 years ago

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cornchips• 10 years ago

I would agree. It seems Google Now has been pushing election updates for the last few months... The first few I received would only show Democrat results, though I never chose any party... Just got one today (or so), but it was more "balanced".

Let's not forget "Schmidt was an informal advisor and major donor to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, and began campaigning the week of October 19, 2008, on behalf of the candidate." [2]

I'm sure some people internal [to Google] know more about this, but from my understanding there was a push to use internal technologies (ads/etc) as a force for campaigning...

1 http://www.androidcentral.com/google-search-will-keep-you-da...

2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt

Fnoug• 10 years ago

Could it be rational for for Schmidt as Alphabet's head?

I am for some reason under the impression that Dems are more favorable for the tech sector, since they're relatively more lax on security, and that the American right tends do be somewhat anti-tech to please the older demographic (examplary anecdata is that /r/the_Donald have a serious beef with Google and Facebook)

It's very possible that the causality is reversed and the right is reacting to a tech's Democratic bias.

I wonder if this is somewhat based in reality or just my wrong hunch.

Julian Assange: Google Working Closely with Hillary Clinton’s Campaign

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