Is tech giant Google once again pulling strings in a secretive post-election effort to sabotage the incoming Trump administration?
The Washington Free Beacon announced on Nov. 18 that it had obtained an invite issued for a summit in Washington, D.C. hosted by leftist, Soros-funded superPAC Priorities USA. The stated purpose of the summit is reportedly to “resist” the GOP agenda, and Google is co-hosting an event as part of the summit. It seems Google is still trying to manipulate political outcomes, even after Election Day.
Following Trump’s surprise electoral victory in the 2016 election, during a Google all-hands meeting, search giant co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, VPs Kent Walker and Eileen Naughton, CFO Ruth Porat and even CEO Sundar Pichai were videoed lamenting that then-Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton had lost. Then, in 2019, Google Responsible Innovation Head Jen Gennai went so far as to admit to an undercover Project Veritas journalist that the company was working to “prevent” the next “Trump situation” from happening in 2020. MRC researchers later exposed Google for its egregious election meddling during the 2024 election season.
And now, it appears, Google is at it again. The Priorities USA invite, according to The Free Beacon, read, “Recognizing that there is still a lot of data to be collected and analysis to be done, we hope that you will join our 2024 Digital Retrospective during which we will discuss what was done online this cycle and how we can prepare to resist the Republican agenda.” Priorities USA added in the email invite, “This is just an initial conversation, we will be in touch in the coming weeks and months with information to join additional deeper dive conversations, briefings, and planning meetings.”
But most significantly for free speech advocates, Priorities USA also stated in the invite, “For those in DC, we hope that you will also join us for a social hour co-hosted by our friends at Google.”
The Free Beacon highlighted Trump’s record of criticizing Google and Big Tech censorship, and reported that a Google spokesman confirmed Google‘s eagerness to host the happy hour, but denied that Google was responsible for formulating the summit’s priorities. “We did not participate in creating the content of the meeting,” the Google spokesman alleged. “As they do for large ad buyers on both sides of the aisle, our political sales team will host some drinks after it.”
But the response seems dubious in light of Google’s track record of pushing for the most radical Democrat candidates over moderate Democrats and also Republicans.
MRC has compiled at least 41 times Google has interfered in elections since 2008. Among the interference exposed by MRC is then-Google CEO Eric Schmidt endorsing Democrat Barack Obama just before 2008 Election Day and hiding “crooked hillary” (Clinton) from search suggestions in 2016.
Furthermore, ahead of the 2024 election, MRC Free Speech America repeatedly exposed Google’s search engine manipulation. The platform routinely buried the campaign websites of Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., among other presidential rivals of Democrats Joe Biden and later Kamala Harris. Google also repeatedly buried right-leaning outlets’ articles about the presidential election under pages of left-leaning content. Even on Election Day, Google buried right-leaning outlet articles when MRC researchers searched the innocuous terms “donald trump presidential race 2024” and “kamala harris presidential race 2024,” results that had likewise occurred consistently throughout October. In August, MRC’s searches on Google for information on rallies for the vice presidential picks, JD Vance (R) and Tim Walz (D), brought up results about Harris as well, even ahead of information about Vance.
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