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[h=2]Google staff 'discussed tweaking search results to counter Trump's controversial travel ban'[/h]
  • Leaked internal emails were obtained by The Wall Street Journal
  • Employees wanted to make it easier for users to help pro-immigrant groups
  • Google workers thought of ways to 'leverage' search functions, emails said
  • Trump's controversial travel ban barred migrants from seven Muslim countries
 

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Google employees brainstormed ways to alter search functions to counter the Trump administration's controversial 2017 travel ban, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing internal emails.


Google employees discussed how they could tweak the company's search-related functions to show users how to contribute to pro-immigration organizations and contact lawmakers and government agencies, the Journal said.


The ideas were not implemented.


President Donald Trump's travel ban temporarily barred visitors and immigrants from seven majority Muslim countries.


It spurred public outcry and was revised several times. Trump said the travel ban was needed to protect the United States against attacks by Islamist militants, and the Supreme Court upheld the measure in June.


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Google employees brainstormed ways to alter search functions to counter the Trump administration's controversial 2017 travel ban, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing internal emails

The Google employees proposed ways to 'leverage' search functions and take steps to counter what they considered to be 'islamophobic, algorithmically biased results from search terms "Islam," "Muslim," "Iran," etc.' and 'prejudiced, algorithmically biased search results from search terms "Mexico," "Hispanic," "Latino," etc,' the Journal added, quoting from the emails.


A Google spokesperson said the emails represented brainstorming and none of the ideas were implemented.
 

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She said the company does not manipulate search results or modify products to promote political views.
'Our processes and policies would not have allowed for any manipulation of search results to promote political ideologies,' the spokesperson said in a statement.
The news is likely to confirm suspicions among conservatives that tech companies like Google, Twitter, and Facebook have a liberal bias.
California will join other states planning to participate in a meeting organized by the U.S. Justice Department to discuss concerns about conservative voices being stifled on social media, the state’s attorney general said last week.
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President Donald Trump's travel ban temporarily barred visitors and immigrants from seven majority Muslim countries

The Justice Department said it had invited a bipartisan group of 24 state attorneys general to attend the Sept. 25 meeting.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the meeting after Trump criticized social media outlets for what he said was unfair treatment of conservatives.
Lawmakers in both the House of Representatives and the Senate held hearings this month to grill executives of social media companies about their handling of conservative voices online.
Companies like Facebook Inc, Twitter Inc and Google owner Alphabet Inc have been accused by some conservatives of seeking to exclude their ideas.
The companies deny any such bias.
'Today, the Justice Department formally sent invitations to a bipartisan group of twenty-four state attorneys general that expressed an interest in attending the meeting hosted by Attorney General Jeff Sessions,' a Justice Department official said last week.
'The meeting will take place here at the Department of Justice, and we look forward to having a robust dialogue with all attendees on the topic of social media platforms.'
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It spurred public outcry and was revised several times. Trump said the travel ban was needed to protect the United States against attacks by Islamist militants, and the Supreme Court upheld the measure in June. Protesters are seen above in Washington, DC on June 26

The Justice Department invited officials from California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s office to the meeting after Becerra reached out to Washington, Becerra spokeswoman Sarah Lovenheim said in an email statement.
'States like California, the nation’s tech leader and home to a $385 billion tech industry, have a wealth of insight and expertise to share in any inquiry about the role of technology companies, and we look forward to a thoughtful conversation in Washington, D.C.,' Becerra said in a statement.
Texas and South Carolina said previously they would participate, while others said they were not invited.
 

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All in the tank for the liberal idiots. And yet Trump still won. Liberal elitism is disgusting.
 

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I keep hearing about how racist our immigration is. They keep saying it is racist against "minorities" Weird. Only 20% of over 1 million legal immigrants a year are European in a country of 63% Europeans. Historically 85%. Not to mention the even higher percentage of "minorities" that are given amnesty or are here illegally. :think2: Gotta love the demoncrats propaganda .Even before the immigration act our immigration was 66% European in a country of 85% Europeans and they said it was racist. Now we have the opposite(even worse) And it still isn't enough.

How about we stop worrying about everyone else from other countries and focus on Americans. White, black, brown and in between
 

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kth)(&^kth)(&^kth)(&^kth)(&^This is wrong and bad ! Google no good! Use something else! kth)(&^kth)(&^kth)(&^kth)(&^kth)(&^kth)(&^
 

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