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WATCH: Google Whistleblower Discusses ‘News Blacklist,’ ‘Human Raters,’ ‘Intimidation’ Tactics

John Bickley
WATCH: Google Whistleblower Discusses ‘News Blacklist,’ ‘Human Raters,’ ‘Intimidation’ Tactics
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In a video interview with Project Veritas released Wednesday, a Google whistleblower comes forward publicly for the first time to warn about the tech giant’s attempts to “sculpt the information landscape” in order to promote what he suggests is a politically and ideologically biased agenda. Among the company’s alleged, Project Veritas reports, are “news blacklists,” the use of “human raters,” and, according to the whistleblower, attempts to personally “intimidate” him.

The whistleblower, Zachary Vorhies, who worked as a senior software engineer at Google, previously provided Project Veritas leaked internal documents from the company, some of which addressed alleged algorithmic bias. He has since provided hundreds more internal documents, which Project Veritas has now published, including alleged “news blacklists” and documents referencing “human raters” in determining how some content is handled. Project Veritas reports:

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