Google Begins Censoring Conservative Sites With Opening Shots At Zerohedge And The Federalist As Purge Of Anti-Left Voices Heating Up

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Google Begins Censoring Conservative Sites With Opening Shots At Zerohedge And The Federalist As Purge Of Anti-Left Voices Heating Up by Geoffrey Grider Earlier today, NBC reported that Google confirmed it financially blacklisted two sites known for criticism of the left: conservative commentary site the Federalist and alternative news site ZeroHedge. If the currency of the 21st century is information, and it is, dystopian search engine giant and complete Internet dictator Google is old man Potter in charge of the bank. Google is the most-powerful company on the face of the earth, hands down, no question about it. When you control the information, you control everything. So when Google decide that certain voices will not be heard, and they do all the time, it has a very chilling effect and immediately conjure up images of Hitler burning books at the library. We're going to see a lot more of this the closer we get to the 2020 election, all social media companies, the major ones where everyone is, are all hardcore Liberals. Over at Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg hired UK-based fact checking company Full Fact to 'check the facts' of the things that are posted. The London-based organization has received approximately $92,000 from George Soros’s Open Society Foundation, $296,000 from Google, and $147,000 from the Omidyar Network, an investment firm owned by billionaire eBay founder and media mogul hopeful Pierre Omidyar. Interestingly, all of these donations have been earmarked for research into “automated fact checking,” a signpost to where the industry is headed. What does all this mean? It means the next time you post a story exposing George Soros for the New World Order villian he truly is, that fact checkers who receive money from George Soros will be telling you how your post violates Facebook's community standards and hate speech rules. It means Google will demonetize you and throw you to the bottom of the search engine results. GEORGE SOROS IS A WHOLE LOT WORSE THAN YOU THINK HE IS, READ IT BEFORE THEY BAN IT Google Financially Blacklists ZeroHedge, Threatens the Federalist over Comment Sections FROM BREITBART NEWS: Following its publication, NBC amended its article to state that the Federalist has been “warned” by Google of imminent blacklisting from its Google Ads service due to “policy violations” in its comments section. ZeroHedge is also working with Google to resolve its blacklisting, which is also based on its comments section. If the Federalist fails to remedy what Google considers to be violations in its comments section, both websites will now be unable to generate advertising revenue using Google Ads, by far the most important service for any website trying to generate digital advertising revenue. In a comment to Breitbart News, the Federalist confirmed it has not been blacklisted and is working with Google to resolve any issues. In a separate comment, ZeroHedge also stated it is working with the tech giant. Google took action after it was contacted by agenda-driven journalists at NBC, who presented the company with research from a leftist nonprofit, the Center for Countering Digital Hate, that smears a number of conservative websites including Breitbart News, and calls on digital advertisers to financially blacklist them. The nonprofit falsely claims that Breitbart News promoted the Obama “birther” theory, citing as “evidence” a Breitbart story that explicitly rejects the theory. As purported evidence of Breitbart’s “hate,” the nonprofit also links to a recent piece recommending Americans buy guns and ammunition to protect themselves amid violent riots. NBC claimed the tech giant said it had demonetized The Federalist and ZeroHedge because of “hatred.” According to a Google spokesperson, “To be clear, The Federalist is not currently demonetized. We do have strict publisher policies that govern the content ads can run on, which includes comments on the site. This is a longstanding policy.” “When a page or site violates our policies, we take action. In this case, we’ve removed both sites’ ability to monetize with Google,” NBC quoted a Google spokesperson as saying. NBC seems to have updated its story on Google and The Federalist, but the update appears to break the lede pic.twitter.com/84m1XLIT1q — Brian Fung (@b_fung) June 16, 2020 Adweek reporter Scott Nover pointed out NBC’s inaccuracies on social media: A Google spokesperson tells me that @NBCNews gets it wrong. Google says The Federalist was notified they *could* be demonetized but hasn't yet been. They can still remedy. Google also says the sites' comments section not any articles were in violation.https://t.co/Nl9SmJBnEX — Scott Nover (@ScottNover) June 16, 2020 According to NBC’s story as originally published, Google took action after NBC itself reached out to the tech giant, using research from a leftist nonprofit: Google’s ban of the websites comes after the company was notified of research conducted by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a British nonprofit that combats online hate and misinformation. They found that 10 U.S-based websites have published what they say are racist articles about the protests, and projected that the websites would make millions of dollars through Google Ads. Google blocked The Federalist from its advertising platform after the NBC News Verification Unit brought the project to its attention. ZeroHedge had already been demonetized prior to NBC News’ enquiry, Google said. ZeroHedge and The Federalist did not respond to requests for comment. The NBC journalist who authored the article, Adele-Momoko Fraser, a producer at the NBC “Verification Center,” interned for the Qatar-based Al Jazeera network early on in her journalism career, according to LinkedIn. She went on to work for several mainstream news organizations including CBS News, the BBC, Channel 4, and Sky News. An NBC reporter thanks two far left wing activist groups for their collaboration in getting the Federalist banned from Google. pic.twitter.com/PB00d7jSZq — Monitoring the Situation Cernovich (@Cernovich) June 16, 2020 Google employees have previously petitioned the company to cut ads to Breitbart News as well. With encouragement from the tech giant’s then-director of monetization, leftist Google employees launched a pressure campaign directed at upper management to withdraw service from Breitbart. Meanwhile, leftists in the company’s ads department directed advertisers to the site of the Sleeping Giants, a far-left organization that spreads smears about conservative media to their advertisers. Google’s hostility to the alternative and conservative media is well documented. The company published a document called “The Good Censor,” which was leaked to Breitbart News, admitting that it and other tech giants “shifted towards censorship” after 2016. Another leaked confirmed that Google-owned YouTube adjusted search results in a manner that de-ranked conservative videos and boosted the mainstream media. And Google executive Kent Walker has said he wants to make the populist movement a “blip” in history. Update — This story has been updated based on comments from the Federalist and ZeroHedge, as well as the reporting of Adweek’s Scott Nover. The Federalist has not been blacklisted, but has been warned of imminent blacklisting. Additionally, Breitbart News has received the following comment from Google: “To be clear, The Federalist is not currently demonetized. We do have strict publisher policies that govern the content ads can run on, which includes comments on the site. This is a longstanding policy.” READ MORE