Google Leaks: "Hivemind + Realtime Boost"

How Google monitors, detects and boosts news trends using's undisclosed projects.

Part of the full Google Disclosure, which you can see here.
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Google makes it's business by scanning the entire internet. This is an internal Google document describing the implimentation of "Realtime Boost", the alternative to their Twitter monitoring system previously called "Hivemind", which finds all trends then selectively boosts certain trends according to the companies corporate agenda.

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What this document shows

This internal Google document describes "Realtime Boost", the successor to Google's Twitter monitoring system "Hivemind". It finds trends across the internet and then selectively boosts certain trends. A separate Realtime Boost design document, linked below, describes how a Google team in Zurich, Switzerland monitors the internet for trends. See also Realtime Events monitoring.

About the Google Leaks disclosure

This page is part of the Google Leaks: 950+ pages of internal Google documents that Zach Vorhies, a Senior Software Engineer at Google and YouTube for 8.5 years, took with him when he resigned from Google in June 2019. He delivered them to the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice in August 2019 and released them to the public through Project Veritas. The documents describe, in Google's own words, how Google defined "fake news", built its "Machine Learning Fairness" system and kept blacklists across Google Search, YouTube and Google News. He tells the full story in his book Google Leaks: An Expose of Big Tech Censorship (Skyhorse Publishing).

Read the full archive on the Google Leaks page, the dated sequence of events in the timeline, and who Zach Vorhies is on the about page.