{"id":13735,"date":"2017-08-20T14:58:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T21:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/?p=13735"},"modified":"2017-11-12T12:21:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T20:21:00","slug":"google-and-liberals-snuffing-out-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/leadership\/leadership-co-lab\/leadership-co-lab-blogs\/pwi-co-lab-staff\/google-and-liberals-snuffing-out-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Google Working with Liberal Groups to Snuff Out Conservative Websites?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Opening Insights<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Information is power.
\n<\/strong>The power to control the narrative is the ultimate power.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A PJ Media\u00a0article written by Paula Bolyard, dated August 19, 2017, highlights the power and influence Google is amassing regarding machine learning, one-sided messaging and liberal indoctrination.<\/p>\n

Partnering with liberal groups such as ProPublica, BuzzFeed News and\u00a0Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) they are using machine learning to document \"hate crimes and events\" in America and make the information easily accessible to journalists. Bolyard stresses that there \"are troubling signs that this tool could be used to ferret out writers and websites that run afoul of the progressive orthodoxy.\"<\/p>\n

Informational Insights<\/h2>\n

In the announcement,\u00a0Simon Rogers, data editor of Google News Labs, wrote:<\/p>\n

\"Now, with ProPublica, we are launching a new machine learning tool to help journalists covering hate news leverage this data in their reporting.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Documenting Hate News Index\u00a0\u2014 built by the\u00a0Google News Lab, data visualization studio\u00a0Pitch Interactive\u00a0and ProPublica \u2014 takes a raw feed of Google News articles from the past six months and uses the\u00a0Google Cloud Natural Language API\u00a0to create a visual tool\u00a0to help reporters find news happening across the country. It\u2019s a constantly-updating snapshot of data from this year, one which is valuable as a starting point to reporting on this area of news.<\/p>\n

The Documenting Hate project launched in response to the lack of national data on hate crimes.\u00a0While the FBI is required by law to collect data about hate crimes, the data is incomplete because local jurisdictions aren't required to report incidents up to the federal government.<\/p>\n

All of which underlines the value of the Documenting Hate Project, which is powered by a number of different\u00a0news organisations and journalists\u00a0who collect and verify reports of hate crimes and events. Documenting Hate is informed by both reports from members of the public and raw Google News data of stories from across the nation.\"<\/p>\n

On the surface, this looks rather innocuous. It's presented by Google as an attempt to create a database of hate crimes \u2014 information that should be available with a quick Google search, it should be noted. But a quick glance at\u00a0the list of partners for this project should raise some red flags:<\/p>\n

\"The ProPublica-led coalition includes\u00a0\u00a0The Google News Lab, Univision News, the\u00a0New York Times, WNYC, BuzzFeed News, First Draft, Meedan, New America Media,\u00a0The Root, Latino USA, The Advocate, 100 Days in Appalachia\u00a0and Ushahidi.\u00a0The coalition is also working with civil-rights groups\u00a0such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, and schools such as the University of Miami School of Communications.\"<\/p>\n

ProPublica poses as a middle-of-the-road non-profit journalistic operation, but in reality, it's funded by a stable of uber-liberal donors, including George Soros's Open Society Foundations and Herb and Marion Sandler, billionaire former mortgage bankers whose Golden West Financial Corp. allegedly targeted subprime borrowers with \"pick-a-pay\" mortgages that led to toxic assets that were blamed for the collapse of Wachovia. The Southern Poverty Law Center, of course, is infamous for\u00a0targeting legitimate conservatives groups, branding them as \"hate groups\" because they refuse to walk in lockstep with the progressive agenda. And it goes with out saying that\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0and BuzzFeed News lean left.<\/p>\n

Source: https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/lifestyle\/2017\/08\/19\/propublica-working-google-document-hate-threatens-conservative-bloggers\/<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Possibilities for Consideration<\/h2>\n