Internet giant Google makes a common practice of manipulating search results to obscure YouTube searches for topics of interest to conservatives, according to leaked materials obtained by the conservative website Breitbart, and recently added pro-life searches to an internal "blacklist" in response to left-wing pressure. OBreitbart reported that it was leaked a partial list of terms in a "blacklist" file for "controversial YouTube queries," as well as an internal Google discussion thread on the subject. "We have tons of white- and blacklists that humans manually curate. Hopefully this isn't surprising or particularly controversial," a Google site reliability engineer said in the chat. Read More
Google 'Blacklisted' Pro-Life Videos
Internet giant Google makes a common practice of manipulating search results to obscure YouTube searches for topics of interest to conservatives, according to leaked materials obtained by the conservative website Breitbart, and recently added pro-life searches to an internal "blacklist" in response to left-wing pressure. OBreitbart reported that it was leaked a partial list of terms in a "blacklist" file for "controversial YouTube queries," as well as an internal Google discussion thread on the subject. "We have tons of white- and blacklists that humans manually curate. Hopefully this isn't surprising or particularly controversial," a Google site reliability engineer said in the chat. Read More