Google admits to manual manipulation and criminal collaboration

Original Sources Cited: J. Arthur Bloom

Sundar Pichai's Open Admission to Google's Scum Baggery

“The deceptive_news domain blacklist is going to be used by many search features to filter problematic sites that violate the good neighbor and misrepresentation policies,” the policy document says. (RELATED: Meet The Five Google Staffers Who Circulated The Petition To Drop Kay Coles James)

That document reads that it was, “approved by gomes@, nayak@, haahr@ as of 8/13/2018.” Ben Gomes is Google’s head of search, who reports directly to CEO Sundar Pichai. Pandu Nayak is a Google Fellow, and Paul Haahr is a software engineer, whose bio on Google’s internal network Moma indicates that he is also involved in

“fringe ranking: not showing fake news, hate speech, conspiracy theories, or science/medical/history denial unless we’re sure that’s what the user wants.” -Scumdar LameGuy

“In the forefront of our move toward change, there is only poetry to hint at possibility made real.” MCSO

In a section of the memo entitled “Eligibility for GNP [Good Neighbor Policy] enforcement,” the types of search results impacted by the policy are described:

“If your product shows any of the following, Misrep and GNP would apply to your PA.

• Shows content from users and news publishers (percieved 3P voice). Ex: UGC, News corpus, etc.

• Outputs single answers (perceived to come from the open web). Ex: Web answers, Video answers, etc.

• Shows content owned, licensed, or edited by Google (perceived to come directly from Google). Ex: Knowledge panels, News summaries, Oneboxes, Munin carousels, etc.”

The “ten blue links” may not be impacted by the blacklist, but virtually every other kind of Google search result is. While hard numbers are not available for how much traffic is directed through the 10 links versus the other search blocks, since the latter appears so high on the results page, the impact could be significant. (RELATED: Applause At Google’s All-Hands Meeting As Company Drops Heritage Foundation President)

Sundar Pichai can be illustrated wearing the criminal stereotyped prison jumpsuit he deserves to be wearing.

“Focus on the user,” said a source at Google who described the program to the Caller. “Users need to trust any content that Google shows them, whether it’s the 10 blue links or other special search results.”

Sundar Pichai testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Dec. 11 of last year. Democratic California Rep. Zoe Lofgren asked why a search for the term “idiot” returned a photo of President Trump. In response, Pichai said, “This is working at scale, we don’t manually intervene on any particular search result.”

A memo about the deceptive news blacklist was also obtained by the Caller, showing its last edit as Dec. 3, 2018, a week before Pichai’s congressional testimony. This document, which describes the process by which a site can be blacklisted for deceptive news, clearly shows that there is a manual component:

“The beginning of the workflow starts when a website is placed on a watchlist which is used for monitoring of sites to determine if they violate the Good Neighbor Policy. This watchlist is maintained and stored by Ares with access restricted to policy & enforcement specialists working on the Good Neighbor Policy.

"Access to the listing can also be shared at the discretion of pcounsel and legal investigations on a need to know basis to enforce or enrich the policy violations. The investigation of the watchlist is done in the tool Athena, the Ares manual review tool, and intakes signals from Search, Webspan, and Ares in order to complete reviews. … Once a domain is determined to be violating the misrepresentation policy or the Good Neighbor Policy, such patterns are then added to deceptive_news_blacklist_domains. 

The record demonstrates that there is, in addition to other things, a "manual survey apparatus" associated with keeping up the boycott.

On the boycott are various preservationist destinations, including Gateway Pundit, Matt Walsh's blog, Gary North's blog "teapartyeconomist.com," Caroline Glick's site, Conservative Tribune, a property of The Western Journal and the site of the American Spectator.

"You can't believe the human judgment of Google's Trust and Safety group," said the source at Google with information of their practices.

Solicitations for input from Google's press group have gone unreturned as of production time.

Update: A Google representative gave the accompanying proclamation to the Daily Caller after this story was distributed: "We don't physically decide the request of any query output, nor do our calculations or arrangements endeavor to make any judgment on the political leanings of a site. Our Google News incorporation arrangements are openly accessible on the web. They give rules on substance and practices for issues like supported substance, misleading practices, and then some. Destinations that don't hold fast to these strategies are not qualified to show up on news surfaces or in data encloses Search. These strategies don't affect the manner in which these destinations show up in natural blue-interface Google Search results."

txt by the Trust & Safety team.”