{"id":318081,"date":"2019-08-05T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=318081"},"modified":"2019-08-06T15:56:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T19:56:37","slug":"the-social-media-giants-threaten-our-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/08\/05\/the-social-media-giants-threaten-our-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"The Social Media Giants Threaten Our Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: New York Daily News, headline:\u00a0 “More Than 20% of Millennials Claim to Have No Friends, Says a New Poll.<\/a>”\u00a0 No new friends, no old friends, and no friends.\u00a0 Twenty percent of Millennials claim to have no friends.\u00a0 What are they doing?\u00a0 Where are they doing it?\u00a0 It takes me back to social media, and this really… My point here on social media is rooted to last week when some discussion came up of Russia collusion and all that.<\/p>\n

I opined that my great concern is not Russia and interfering in the elections, meddling in the elections.\u00a0 The Russians have shown that whatever they did had no impact whatsoever.\u00a0 And as Barack Obama has stated, it would be impossible to tamper with our elections the way the Russians are said to have tampered.\u00a0 Voting machines, tampering with the vote count, they couldn\u2019t do it.\u00a0 But are there other ways?\u00a0 And to get me into this. “Former Google…” It\u2019s a headline. “Former Google Engineer Says Google Will Try to Prevent Trump\u2019s Reelection.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, this, to me, is worth paying attention to.\u00a0 Here are the details: Friday on Tucker Carlson\u2019s Fox show, “Google engineer Kevin Cernekee argued there was political bias” at Google. “Cernekee claimed to have been bullied and ultimately fired for his right-wing beliefs. However, Cernekee said it was his view that Google would attempt to thwart President Donald Trump\u2019s re-election in 2020.”\u00a0\u00a0 Now, without going into details how they\u2019re gonna do that… Well, here\u2019s what he said. He said, “I think that\u2019s a major threat. They have openly stated that they think 2016 was a mistake. They thought Trump should have lost in 2016.<\/p>\n

“They really want Trump to lose in 2020. That\u2019s [Google\u2019s] agenda. They have very biased people running every level of the company. They have quite a bit of control over the political process. That\u2019s something we should really worry about.”\u00a0 He\u2019s exactly right, and what he\u2019s talking about when he said they were very disappointed, is there is a video of Sergey Brin and Sundar Pichai (the CEO) having a staff meeting with the upper-tier of executives at Google on the Friday after the election in 2016, and they\u2019re all shell-shocked.<\/a><\/p>\n

Sergey Brin, one of the cofounders, is at the podium talking about (summarized), “Well, this is the last thing we thought was gonna happen.\u00a0 This is the last thing that we wanted to happen,” and asking, “What are we gonna do to fix this?”\u00a0 They were personally — personally, not corporately, folks! This was a meeting where they were personally affected by this!\u00a0 They were personally devastated by this!\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t gonna have any impact on Google\u2019s business.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t gonna be pro or con Google\u2019s business.\u00a0 This is purely personal with these people, and I think that everybody needs to be focused on that. This is not just Google\u2019s advertising and Facebook selling advertising and Cambridge Analytica and all that.<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s a far, far bigger threat that Google and Facebook pose because the threat is that they pose is largely invisible. They\u2019re not on the front lines. Google is not out manning phone banks. They\u2019re not running around town registering voters per se. What they are doing is engaging in constant human manipulation. And I think this is a situation that we\u2019re on the verge of seeing become reality.<\/p>\n

Now, we\u2019ve all heard the stories about how Google and Facebook are censoring conservative content. Whole websites, whole blogospheres, individuals, and then an individual tweet. I had a friend who simply clicked on a link to the website the Gateway Pundit and Facebook sent them a warning saying that this is a dangerous site. You should monitor this site. We will be monitoring this site. You should restrict your usage of this website. Gateway Pundit. It\u2019s a conservative blog and website that is no threat to Google or anybody. These companies are getting into the credit card business. That means they\u2019re getting into banking.<\/p>\n