Google and Amazon Favoring the Harris Campaign
With the presidential election up and coming in less than two months, big tech is at it again – secretly facilitating the Democrats in their campaign. Google and Amazon have been caught recently in programming their services to sway voters toward Kamala Harris and against President Trump in November 2024.
Google has been used by the Biden administration for spying on American citizens as was learned from an “accidentally unsealed court document” found by Forbes in October 2021. Now an undercover video by the team of investigative journalist James O’Keefe has revealed that Google is using its ads to favor the Harris campaign with the goal of leading her to victory in the November election.
The video was posted by O’Keefe on September 9 to his X (Twitter) page and it shows Dakota Leazer, a strategist at Google, telling that Google has been actively coordinating with the Harris campaign and essentially promoting rhetoric that is very pro-Kamala. O’Keefe also noted that Leazer sees Google as a very liberal/progressive company that is doing their pro-Kamala work for financial gains.
Soon after the video’s release on X, Leazer deleted his TikTok videos and removed his bio and contact information from his profile as reported by O’Keefe in another post on X.
Not surprisingly, mainstream media completely blacked out on the revealing story and only some conservative news sites like RealClearPolitics reported it.
Not long before O’Keefe’s sting reporting exposed Google’s coordination with the Harris campaign, the widely popular Amazon was caught on video doing something similar. Early this month, videos by different people started showing how Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa answered their question why they should vote for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. When asked “why should I vote for Donald Trump?” Alexa is seen telling that it cannot promote a specific party or candidate. But when asked “why should I vote for Kamala Harris?” Alexa started praising Harris and her various campaign promises like fighting for social justice, addressing income inequality, and others.
Conservative commentator Benny Johnson posted one such video with his message that this means Amazon has been caught rigging the 2024 presidential election against Trump. Johnson called for boycotting Amazon and wrote: “62 days away from the 2024 election. Now is the time to act. Join the Amazon boycott. Get massive woke corporations out of our elections and politics. Enough is enough.”
Soon after the videos went viral on social media and earned a backlash against Amazon with many calling for legal action against the company, Amazon responded by calling it an error. The Register reported on September 4 that they received a comment from an Amazon spokesperson who did not provide details of the nature of the error but said that it was quickly fixed:
The company didn’t give any additional details about why the endorsement disparity was present, but did tell us it has teams dedicated to continuously auditing its systems to detect content that violates its policies and preventing similar situations.
I don’t doubt the article at all. It’s spot on. Google has been in trouble before, I’m glad I don’t have Google on my laptop. Google can’t seem to understand that what they hide from the public comes back to haunt them. So many of us don’t even use them or believe in them. They are going down soon, and I am elated at that thought. I don’t have an account with Amazon either as I don’t want to be cheated by them or have them use my private information for their nefarious idiocy. Amazon won’t even allow their drivers to stop to use a bathroom or take breaks. Calling incidents an error is a cop out to keep them out of trouble, it won’t work in the long run.
Super duper conspiracy theory constructed by the most high theorist of conspiracies. Why question technology money and not question dubious PAC money and deep pocket Republican shell companies shelling out millions in support for Trump’s shady operation.
Democrat Party is transparent about the funds it receives. How transparent has the Trump Org. been counting income tax returns not released, business operations management, silent contributions from ghost corporations, and the man’s generated money from contributions transferred to his companies’ accounts.
Then, speaking of transparency, let’s look at the Trump family cashing in on father’s influence to the tune of billions in USD.
Look in your own back yard and think twice before commenting on a nothing to it story.
Really funny that Dempsey who I think is perhaps the best writer here is at the same time the worst journalist here. He is a failed journalist. I give him credit for continuing this failed mission but wonder why he can’t do even a little bit better. It’s like “having totally fucked his mission, he decided to double down on his failures.”
Failed ex-pat Pakistani journalist Ernest Dempsey runs O’Keefe, the Allan Funt of the journalism world who has been discredited more times than Eron, but is picked up by RCP, a right-center news outlet of pretty good factual reporting —– so, some mixed sourcing. So, seems good, seems Dempsey’s gots the goods but when you check it goods, it’s not good. It sucks since Dempsey did not report the news, he spun it.
He concludes, based on rumor and inuendo: “Google and Amazon have been caught recently in programming their services to sway voters toward Kamala Harris and against President Trump in November 2024” and prints scant facts to prove his point. Matter of fact, his own facts dispute Dempsey’s conclusion.
Here’s the real news as it was printed by real journalists:
“James O’Keefe snagged a Google “growth strategist” and ad salesman telling someone on a hidden camera that the online search giant is running a “psy-op” in favor of the Harris presidential campaign.
“Google is essentially promoting, through its ads, rhetoric that was very pro-Kamala,” he said and then denied that he said. “This is like a coordinated effort by Big Tech and big companies to try and get her to win.”
“If you think about what election interference actually is, like, what does that mean?” he told O’Keefe’s undercover reporter.
“Like you go to Google, they’re reorienting the search engine such that Kamala is more favored… Facebook, I feel like, is promoting content that is favorable to her.”
“I just work on ads,” he said when confronted about those statements, telling O’Keefe that the statements have been taken out of context.
“What do you do in advertising for Google?” O’Keefe asks.
“I don’t want to say anything more,” the man says, getting up and leaving the table.
O’Keefe characterizes the man’s denial this way: “I was lying, I was trying to impress my date! Because nothing turns a girl on more than your company Google coordinating with Kamala to win an election.”
Then, the ad man was internet doxed by Okeefe and had to tear down his X and probably all of his other online accounts. Could you imagine the ad salesman telling this news to his customers? And what is a “growth strategist” and ad salesman with growth strategist in quotes for some strange, unknown, reason not explained. Sounds like either crazy corporate speak or personal braggadocio, but why the quotes? I am guessing this guy is not high up the organizational ladder. Did Dempsey ask? Or did Dempsey ask Google to respond like a real, grown-up journalist?
So an ad man mouthed off about things he knows as much about as you, I, and Dempsey would. He then denies and retracts what he says in the same conversation. And then O’Keefe seems to accept the denial as a guy trying to impress a girl. The chance of this guy being in the room when Google was conspiring with Harris, that he knows squat about Google algorithms, is all questionable and Dempsey does not even ask the question. O’Keefe does not mention the man’s level. If he was senior management, or even management, think O’Keefe would have added his position. He does not.
We seem to gots a guy from the mailroom saying Google ate his baby and then taking it back. Oh the horror of it all.
“I just work on ads” I think says it all.
Then, as is his way to add column inches, perhaps paid by the word, Dempsey loops in Amazon as similar, and the Biden administration using google to spy on innocent Americans. I just hope they hone in on ex-pat Pakistani’s whose countrymen hid Bin Laden, ISIS, the Taliban and Al Qaeda as suspected terrorists and those illegal aliens that might eat dog.
The google spying was based on specific court-ordered warrants on specific individuals for specific reasons. As far as I can tell, this story went no further and Dempsey must know that. He just ignores it because it detracts from his spin.
The Amazon “Alexa likes Kamala, no likey Don” issue came up on 9/3 and Amazon said, thanks, it’s and error, and it is fixed,” by 9/9, less than a week. No Deep State found yet, but maybe…. just maybe if you click your heels three times, or just believe anything you hear—- like the Dempsey who never looks deeper, second sources, or has reputable single sources for the spew he do.
That’s strike three on this story, three whiffs at bat, Dempsey, you’re out. Hit the showers kid, you suck at journalism. Always have. Looks like always will. I guess it can be true that you can’t fix……some things. FYI: yes, no smiley face, but there is a
BUSTED for lack of facts and no connection between issues.