Google censors conservatives to appease left-wing pressure, docs reveal

Internet giant Google has long faced accusations of bias against conservatives, and an upcoming book cites documents confirming that it takes action against right-wing content in direct response to complaints from left-wing activists.

Daily Caller senior investigative reporter Peter Hasson is the author of the The Manipulators: Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Big Tech's War on Conservatives, which will be released next week. This week, The Federalist published an excerpt from the book, focusing on emails Hasson obtained that shed further light on how Google makes such decisions.

One email exchange starts with a reporter from The Guardian writing to a Google public-relations representative about several YouTube videos that the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) had flagged as objectionable, including one “satirizing sex differences.” Hasson writes that Google’s spokeswoman reacted with “snap decisions” in “direct response to media inquiries,” in order to demonetize the videos.

“That’s not how the process is supposed to work — and it is certainly not how Google says the process works,” Hasson argues. “Public relations representatives are supposed to explain the censorship process, not dictate it to please liberal reporters. The exchange also highlights how left-wing interest groups with an egregious track record of dishonesty (like the SPLC) partner with liberal reporters to pressure big tech to censor right-of-center voices.”

He goes on to note that there’s a profound double standard at play, as Google simultaneously promotes left-wing messages via its Creators for Change program, which supports left-wing personalities on YouTube.