Google's "Creepy Line"

“A new documentary, ‘The Creepy Line,’ argues that companies like Google and Facebook lean left and have power they shouldn't have. The title ‘Creepy Line’ refers to a comment by former Google chairman Eric Schmidt, who said when it comes to issues like privacy, Google policy ‘is to get right up to the creepy line but not cross it.’ But the documentary argues that Google crosses that creepy line every day. Google’s power comes from its dominant search engine. We assume that whatever appears at the top of our searches is the ‘best’ or most popular result. But is it? ‘It is a company that has an agenda,’ the writer of ‘The Creepy Line,’ Peter Schweizer, says in my latest video. ‘Their ability to manipulate the algorithm is something that they’ve demonstrated,’ says Schweizer, and last election Google put positive stories about Hillary Clinton higher in Google searches. Human ‘content monitors’ do some of that censoring, and some of them despise conservatives. A former Facebook employee reported that the human censors sometimes ignored stories trending among Facebook users if the stories came from a conservative website. ‘The Creepy Line’ makes a compelling case that a small number of people at a few Silicon Valley companies have tremendous power to do creepy things.”

“The Creepy Line” by John Stossel, Townhall.com, Dec. 5, 2018

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