{"id":337281,"date":"2017-11-30T23:15:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T22:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=337281"},"modified":"2017-11-30T23:15:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T22:15:11","slug":"google-ministry-truth-intensifies-suppressing-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/google-ministry-truth-intensifies-suppressing-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Google ‘Ministry of Truth’ intensifies suppressing ‘fake news’ (such as this)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

On November 18th, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt spoke about how Google will help to defeat Russia. He said that Google helps in this effort not by \u201ccensoring\u201d Russian newsmedia, but by \u201cde-ranking\u201d them in Google web-searches, so that web-pages from these sites, which he calls \u201cpropaganda,\u201d will show so far down in the rankings in any Google-search, so that users of Google will not encounter (or will be vastly less likely to encounter) Russian sites \u2014 or any other non-mainstream sites (such as this one), which refuse unquestioningly to trumpet government lies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Schmidt was speaking to the NATO-sponsored<\/span><\/a> Halifax International Security Forum, which is headquartered actually in Washington DC<\/span><\/a>, though \u201cThe Forum is best known for its annual security summit in Halifax, Nova Scotia\u201d in order to strengthen Canada\u2019s bond to America\u2019s anti-Russia military alliance, NATO. <\/span><\/p>\n

Schmidt\u2019s full speech, and the Q-and-A\u2019s after Schmidt\u2019s presentation, are shown complete in the video here:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Halifaxtheforum\/videos\/1642381182492613\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Since no transcript was provided, extensive excerpts from the video will be quoted here. <\/span><\/p>\n

At the video\u2019s start, it\u2019s marked as 1:51:38, and at its end, it is marked as 0:00:00, but only the end-marking shows in the video while it\u2019s running, and that end-marking indicates the number of minutes-till the video\u2019s end. I therefore provide both markings [with the minutes-from-the end being shown in brackets like here], because the video\u2019s producers had made unusually difficult the finding and location of anything that\u2019s said in Schmidt\u2019s war-speech presentation. The presentation wasn\u2019t addressed to the publics of NATO-member countries, but instead to scholarly and financial elites in those countries, people whose own careers are in service to these nations\u2019 aristocracies (people who themselves are highly invested in their nation\u2019s military-industrial complex). It thus reveals some things that Schmidt might prefer that the public not know.<\/span><\/p>\n

1:08:00-[-43:00]<\/span><\/p>\n

The host here is Jonathan Tepperman, Editor-in-Chief of a NATO mouthpiece, Foreign Policy<\/i> magazine. Amongst the advertisers in his NATO magazine are Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrup Grumman<\/span><\/a>, and other firms that especially benefit from increasing \u2018defense\u2019 expenditures throughout NATO. NATO is the chief marketing-organization for America\u2019s weapons-makers, and Schmidt\u2019s presentation was 100% pro-NATO.<\/span><\/p>\n

Schmidt starts [at -42:50] by answering Tepperman\u2019s opening question about what Google is doing to \u201cfight extremism\u201d (as if NATO even really cares about that, instead of about conquering Russia \u2014 which it was actually created and designed to fight against). Schmidt answered:<\/span><\/p>\n

All of the democratic countries are facing lots of these challenges together.\u00a0 <\/span>\u2026<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

This opening thus pretends that \u201cextremism\u201d is a problem that\u2019s somehow distinctive to \u2018democratic countries\u2019, and that the U.S. is such (\u2018democratic\u2019), and that Russia and China (which will constitute the villains in his presentation) are the opposite; so, Schmidt\u2019s opening frames the \u2018good guys\u2019 and the \u2018bad guys\u2019 in the way that NATO does, as if Russia and China weren\u2019t against terrorism at least as much as NATO countries are. Schmidt\u2019s opening by bringing up \u201cdemocratic countries\u201d as the supposed \u201cus\u201d or \u201cwe,\u201d who constitute the \u2018good guys\u2019, has immediately taken Tepperman\u2019s amorphous characterization of the enemy, as being \u2018extremism\u2019, and is pivoting it instead in the direction against Russia, which Schmidt quickly condemns, in his answer here, to Tepperman\u2019s question, which was allegedly about \u201cextremism.\u201d Schmidt said (and it\u2019s instructive to see him pivot here): <\/span><\/p>\n

1:10:00 & [-41:50]: Ten years ago, I thought that everyone would be able to deal with the internet, because the internet, we all knew, was full of falsehoods, as well as truths. \u2026 crazy people, crazy ideas, and so forth. But the new data is the other side, actors that are trying to either spread misinformation, or worse, have figured out how to use that information for their own good. \u2026 My own view is that these patterns can be detected, and that they can be taken down or deprioritized. One of the problems in the industry is that because we came from a more naive position, that illegal actors would not be so active, but now faced with the data, and what we\u2019ve seen from Russia in 2016 and with other actors around the world, we have to act. \u2026<\/i> [-40:45: The Foreign Policy<\/i> magazine interlocutor, Tepperman, now introduces \u2018fake news\u2019 into the question, along with \u2018violent extremism\u2019, so as to ease the way for the switch-of-focus to Russia and away from jihadists, which Schmidt is carrying out, and so Tepperman asks \u201cSay a little bit more about how companies like yours can play in the fight against fake news and violent extremism\u201d \u2014 both of which are things that Eric Schmidt and Google<\/span><\/a> actually help the U.S. regime to plan and organize<\/span><\/a>]. Schmidt answers: Alphabet created a new company Jigsaw, whose primary purpose is to analyze and pursue these. \u2026 \u00a0 <\/span>The most important thing I think that we can do is make sure that as the other side gets more automated, we also are more automated. The way to think about it is that much of what Russia did was manual, literally troll-farms as they\u2019re called of human beings in Moscow; we know this because they were operating on Moscow time, when they were appearing to operate in Virginia, Ohio, Wyoming, and so forth<\/i> [he provided no source for that allegation]. \u2026 We started with a position, the American general view, that bad speech will be replaced by good speech, in a crowded network; and the problem in the last year is that that may not be true in certain situations, especially when you have a well-funded opponent, who is trying to actively spread misinformation. So, I think everybody is sort of grappling with, where is that line. \u2026 Our opponents are getting very good at circumventing our various checks and balances.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

He then said that Google \u201ctakes down\u201d<\/i> false information \u201cvery fast\u201d \u201cvery fast take-down policies,\u201d<\/i> but that \u201cwe don\u2019t yet know how to do it in much less than a minute and a half\u201d<\/i> but that this is the goal: \u201cthe publishing time of evil content is exactly zero.\u201d<\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

Both he and the Foreign Policy<\/i> editor discussed the matter here as being one in which Google\u2019s parent company, Alphabet, won\u2019t be publishing (won\u2019t be allowing in a web-search the finding of) anything that\u2019s \u2018illegal\u2019<\/i>. The presumption here is that all falsehood might be \u2018illegal’<\/i> and that no truth is or can be \u2018illegal\u2019<\/i>. In other words: the presumption is that only \u201cfake news\u201d<\/i> is or can be \u201cillegal.\u201d<\/i> Of course, no one knows whether Mr. Tepperman or Mr. Schmidt actually believe this, but it\u2019s the obvious joint assumption in their presentation.<\/span><\/p>\n

At [-22:00]:<\/span><\/p>\n

What Google does is we do ranking. \u2026 I am strongly not in favor of censorship. I am very strongly in favor of ranking. \u2026 You would de-rank, that is lower the rank, of information that was repetitive, exploitative, false, likely to have been weaponized. \u2026<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Though Schmidt here says that \u201cI am strongly not in favor of censorship,\u201d his earlier statement that his and Google\u2019s goal is \u201cthe publishing time of evil content is exactly zero\u201d means: his actual goal is 100% censorship. That\u2019s not merely \u201cde-ranking,\u201d but instead total and instantaneous removal. Either he is stupid enough to not recognize his self-contradiction, or else he does recognize that one of those two assertions is false, but he merely wants to deceive his audience into thinking that they\u2019re not all just a bunch of hypocrites, who don\u2019t really care at all about truthfulness and who change their tune to fit the need of a given verbal passage \u2014 to fit propaganda-needs, instead of real analytical or journalistic needs, so as to twist \u2018truth\u2019 when and as needed, to con\u00a0<\/span>the gulls.<\/span><\/p>\n

[-13:00, responding to an anti-Russian question from the audience, about \u201cthe revolution in Ukraine, Russian annexation of Crimea, and so on\u201d \u2014 which is referring actually to the coup in Ukraine<\/span><\/a> and Obama’s installation of a racist-fascist Ukrainian regime that terrified Crimeans<\/span><\/a>, a question which had asked \u201cIs it really necessary to monetarize Russian propaganda outlets\u201d and the questioner there named RT and Sputnik specifically, Schmidt responded] We are working on detecting this kind of scenario that you are describing, and, again, deranking those kinds of sites, RT and Sputnik are the two. \u2026 We don\u2019t want to ban the sites. That\u2019s not how we operate.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

But, again: if \u201cWe don\u2019t want to ban the sites. That\u2019s not how we operate,\u201d then, why is his ideal that \u201cthe publishing time of evil content is exactly zero\u201d? Can he really be that stupid as not to recognize his self-contradiction there? Or is he instead just a slick liar, who intends and knows that he\u2019s deceiving people? <\/span><\/p>\n

The rest of the conversation was mainly about China, and was based upon treating China as America\u2019s biggest enemy.<\/span><\/p>\n

A superb early article about this Schmidt presentation at this forum was Derrick Broze\u2019s November 21st \u201cGoogle\u2019s Eric Schmidt Says Americans Too Dumb To Detect Fake News, Plans to \u2018Derank\u2019 Russian News\u201d<\/span><\/a>. That title succinctly summarized Schmidt\u2019s speech.<\/span><\/p>\n

On 16 July 2017, I had summarized the information till that time, headlining \u201cRussiagate Exposed: It\u2019s a Fraud\u201d<\/span><\/a>. Then, on November 14th, Washingtonsblog presented<\/span><\/a> testimony of the former NSA counterintelligence chief, Bill Binney, explaining how he knows that \u2018Russiagate\u2019 is fake. And, on November 25th, Caitlin Johnstone bannered \u201cRussiagate Explained\u201d<\/span><\/a> and brilliantly summarized the fraudulence of the charge that Russia had, like Hillary Clinton says, thrown the 2016 U.S. Presidential election to Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nafeez Ahmed\u2019s 25,000-word 22 January 2015 article <\/span>\u00a0\u201cHow the CIA made Google: Inside the secret network behind\u00a0mass surveillance, endless war, and\u00a0Skynet\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span> was summarized by me shortly after the 2016 election, when I headlined \u201cThe Noose that Obama Had Wanted to Hand to President Hillary to Hang U.S. Democracy\u201d<\/span><\/a>. Google was created by America\u2019s military-industrial complex, and is extremely partisan both internationally and regarding domestic political matters \u2014 what Schmidt refers to as a truth-focused \u201cranker\u201d of search-results is instead ranking not only so as to serve its advertisers, but to serve the rest of the U.S. aristocracy and their allied aristocracies in NATO. <\/span><\/p>\n

I have previously documented<\/span><\/a> that Eric Schmidt and Google were key participants, starting in 2011, to help organize both the February 2014 coup in Ukraine by the Obama regime, and the invasion of Syria by jihadists from around the world to overthrow and replace Syria\u2019s President Bashar al-Assad. I elsewhere have documented that Schmidt was the brains behind the stupid Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign against Donald Trump. <\/span><\/p>\n

Trump, now, as President, is carrying out Hillary\u2019s international policies regarding Russia, Syria, Iran, Israel, and almost everything else in international affairs. <\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, therefore, the United States is no democracy. The U.S. has become too corrupt for that.<\/span><\/a> Just like the mullahs in Iran determine whom to include in the voters\u2019 final choice of the Presidency of that country, the billionaires in America determine whom to include in the final choice of the Presidency of this country. <\/span><\/p>\n

However, Big Brother, and its Ministry of Truth, deny everything that\u2019s being documented here. But, of course, they also won\u2019t publish any of it \u2014 they simply assert the opposite and ignore articles such as this, since the Ministry can\u2019t overcome the actual evidence, which is provided here via links. As Schmidt had said, \u201cWhat Google does is we do ranking.<\/i>\u201d And any article such as this one, is likely to be at the very bottom of their \u201cranking\u201d \u2014 or, if Google becomes 100% successful, it won\u2019t be there at all, since Schmidt\u2019s ideal is that \u201cthe publishing time of evil content is exactly zero,\u201d and since he and Google are Big Brother\u2019s angels of Truth, who define what is \u2018evil\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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