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Google Exec: I certainly find this election deeply offensive

<p>A video of Google&rsquo&semi;s first company-wide meeting held after the 2016 elections could add more fuel to charges leveled at the tech company regarding its alleged liberal bias&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The video&comma; which was anonymously leaked to <em>Breitbart <&sol;em>this week&comma; shows Google executives expressing shock and dismay&nbsp&semi;over Hillary Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s loss to Trump&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Google was Hillary&&num;8217&semi;s largest corporate contributor&comma; with&nbsp&semi;employees and executives collectively donating more than &dollar;1&period;3 million to her campaign&period; After the election&comma; Google was found to have modified its search algorithms to hide negative information about Hillary Clinton&period; The company is also believed to have offered free rides to Latino voters to help them get to the polls&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking to employees on November 10th&comma; 2016&comma; Google co-founder Sergey Brin said&comma; &ldquo&semi;As an immigrant and a refugee&comma; I certainly find this election deeply offensive and I know many of you do too&period; I think it&rsquo&semi;s a very stressful time and it conflicts with many of our values&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Brin&comma; who is originally from Russia&comma;&nbsp&semi;added that the US is entering&nbsp&semi;&ldquo&semi;a period of great uncertainty&comma;&rdquo&semi; especially for minorities&comma; immigrants&comma; and women&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Similar concerns were echoed by Google CFO Ruth Porat&comma; who broke into tears during the meeting and called on&nbsp&semi;employees hug one another&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Near the end of the meeting&comma; Brin compared Trump supporters to extremists and fascists in that all three are motivated by &&num;8220&semi;simple boredom&period;&&num;8221&semi; Results from a Google study &ldquo&semi;suggest that boredom led to the rise of fascism and also the communist revolution&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Brin&period; &ldquo&semi;There are many other factors too&comma; but it sort of sneaks up sometimes &&num;8211&semi; really bad things&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>VP for Global Affairs Kent Walker suggested&nbsp&semi;Trump supporters are motivated by&nbsp&semi;&ldquo&semi;fear&comma; xenophobia&comma; hatred&comma; and a desire for answers that may or may not be there&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Walker and Brin assured employees that Google would fight back against the growing populist movement and Brin urged audience members to consider what the company could do to ensure a &ldquo&semi;better quality of governance and decision-making&period;&rdquo&semi; VP of People Operations Eileen Naughton promised that Google&&num;8217&semi;s policy team in DC would &ldquo&semi;keep a close watch&rdquo&semi; on the immigration issue&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Google responded to the leaked video by claiming that employees&&num;8217&semi; personal views do not influence how their products are designed to perform&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>But we have already seen obvious proof that Google filters its search results to promote liberal content&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;This video is the smoking gun&comma;&rdquo&semi; says Media Research Center President Brent Bozell&period; &ldquo&semi;Google&rsquo&semi;s leadership is decidedly anti-Trump and there is no doubt that their company reflects that&period; We need hearings now&period; Google cannot continue to run and hide&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Google is already facing&nbsp&semi;increased scrutiny over its business practices&comma; and lawmakers have held multiple hearings to discuss the tech giant&&num;8217&semi;s liberal bias&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Last week&comma; lawmakers criticized Google for failing to send an executive to testify alongside Facebook and Twitter&period; Arizona Attorney General&nbsp&semi;Mark Brnovich is investigating the company&&num;8217&semi;s handling of user data&comma; and Senator Orrin Hatch &lpar;R&rpar; has called on the feds to reopen an antitrust probe that was closed in 2013&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Google controls &&num;8220&semi;91&percnt; of all search and they get to decide what everyone sees&comma;&rdquo&semi; tweeted Trump&rsquo&semi;s son Donald Trump Jr&period; &ldquo&semi;If this isn&rsquo&semi;t a monopoly I don&rsquo&semi;t know what is&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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