Google Leaks: News Censorship
This internal Google webpage captures Google's need to establish a "single point of truth" for defintion of "news" across Google products.
In this document we disclose the secret "Trust Project" and the semantic "Nutritional Labels" which are applied to news organizations.
"Project Purple Rain" is a Global internet monitoring system design to find crisis incidents around the world by looking at documents feeding into Google massive search engine.
This document was found on the public discussion forums within Google's private intranet system. The internal memo was created on Nov. 27th, 2017.
Part of the full Google Disclosure, which you can see here.
What this document shows
This internal Google web page, created on November 27th, 2017 and found on the discussion forums of Google's intranet, argues for a "single point of truth" for the definition of "news" across Google products. It describes the "Trust Project", the semantic "Nutritional Labels" applied to news organizations, and "Project Purple Rain", a global monitoring system for crisis incidents.
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.
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