The Event Chronicle reports that Google is running a project to call on advertisers to boycott independent media. [theeventchronicle.com]
Google’s video platform YouTube was and still is demonetizing conservative political content, and putting entire channels on restricted mode, meaning anyone that had their settings set to restricted could not even see or search video from those content creators. Our video channel was one of those that saw all our videos disappeared in restricted mode, despite no cursing, nudity, or any other action that violates YouTube’s terms of service.
Google also manipulated their search engine algorithms, making it harder to find Independent Media sites on the first pages of their search engine results. (...)
Breitbart News has been given physical proof that Google employees are targeting them by threatening advertisers, telling them that if they allow their ads on Breitbart, they will harm their “brand safety.” These employees have gone as far as to collude with a group called “Sleeping Giants” who set up a campaign to encourage their users to harass Breitbart advertisers until they agree to no longer advertise or promote the website (...) Breitbart may be big enough to withstand this type of campaign, but smaller websites cannot.
As World Socialist Website has reported, [wsws.org] Google's organized censorship is not directed soley toward conservatives but also targets leftist news outlets that are not blindly obedient to Google and the Democratic Party.
Google is censoring the Internet. The World Socialist Web Site has extensively documented the efforts of the search giant to manipulate search results to restrict or block access to socialist and left-wing websites, including the WSWS, Alternet, Wikileaks, Counterpunch, Truthout, Common Dreams, and many others. Under the guise of combating “fake news,” Google is collaborating with the US government and the Democratic Party to limit access to oppositional views.
As Forbes has reported [archive.is], Google-trained employees manage the public-relations departments of many Silicon Valley companies where they can control the company's public image and the flow of information from the public to executives.
The Google PR “diaspora” now runs communications at many of the most important Valley companies. That includes Facebook, Twitter, Tesla, Square, Yahoo, Lyft, Uber, Pinterest and Snapchat ...
Other Google PR veterans hold similar roles at elite venture firms or agencies that cater to top tech concerns, and many more toil in the ranks of communications companies throughout the Valley. Many of these PR hands where brought to Google by Elliot Schrage, who ran and helped to “scale” Google’s PR department between 2005 and 2008, before decamping for Facebook.
Interestingly, many of his hires were not traditional corporate PR types. Some came from the world of politics (veterans of the White House or presidential campaigns), others were recovering laywers, or majors in economics, sociology, political science and international affairs.
Meanwhile, corporate giants News Corporation [infowars.com] and Unilever [cnn.com] are pressuring Internet companies to increase their level of censorship.