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<\/a>\u00a9 Reuters \/ Brendan McDermid<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
RT.com<\/p>\n
A senior Google software engineer has dismissed the idea that Big Tech can be politically neutral and called out his company as \u201cvery biased,\u201d joining Project Veritas\u2019 growing stable of whistleblowers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very concerned to see Big Tech and Big Media merge basically with a political party, with the Democratic party<\/em>,\u201d Greg Coppola, a Googler since 2014 who works on the AI Google Assistant, told the conservative muckraking outlet.<\/p>\n Are we going to continue to think for ourselves or are we going to just let the biggest tech companies decide who wins every election from now on?<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n While he doesn\u2019t have a specific \u201csmoking gun<\/em>\u201d proving bias, decades of programming experience (he\u2019s been coding since age 10, he said) inform his growing certainty about Google\u2019s political slant. Algorithms \u201cdon\u2019t write themselves \u2013 we write them to do what we want them to do<\/em>,\u201d he pointed out, explaining that even AI machine learning is \u201cjust a tool that we control<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Coppola pointed to Google News as an example \u2013 a news aggregator that draws from \u201cjust a handful of sites, and all those sites are vitriolically against President Trump, which I really consider to be interference in the American election.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Google only began meddling in politics starting with the 2016 election, the engineer claimed, explaining that \u201cthe angle that the Democrats and the media took was that anyone who liked Donald Trump was a racist, even a Nazi, and that got picked up everywhere<\/em>\u201d \u2013 even Google. And even then, \u201cmost people\u2019s jobs are not political and don\u2019t involve politics.<\/em>\u201d But it only takes a few bad apples to spoil democracy for everyone.<\/p>\n Ultimately, the \u201cambiguity<\/em>\u201d is the problem, Coppola said. Google\u2019s search results have been trusted as the best for over a decade, and the reality and depth of what he claims is political meddling is only now filtering into the general consciousness.<\/p>\n I really don\u2019t buy the idea that big tech is politically neutral, and I think we need to start incorporating that into whatever strategy we use to have a democracy going forward<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n While Coppola said he enjoys working for Google and stopped short of accusing his bosses of lying under oath (though he did go so far as to deny their congressional testimony was true), he was apparently willing to risk being fired in order to speak to the outlet. Veritas is actively soliciting stories from Google employees following a bombshell hidden-camera report that appeared to show Google exec Jen Gennai discussing how the company was preparing to \u201cprevent the next Trump situation<\/em>\u201d and another employee explaining how Google\u2019s \u201cmachine learning fairness<\/em>\u201d algorithm attempts to \u201ccorrect<\/em>\u201d reality\u2019s biases by skewing search results.<\/p>\n