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Google Under Fire For Labeling CA GOP As Nazis – Blames Wikipedia ‘Vandalism,’ But Tech Giants Regularly Use Same Source That Spreads False Claims

1-6-2018 < SGT Report 81 488 words
 

by Susan Duclos, All News Pipeline:


For weeks we have been seeing a number of stories regarding the California primaries, slated for June 5th, where voters will choose who their general election candidates will be. The headlines all have focused on how the Democratic party is “worried,” or how California Dems “agonize,” over House primaries, each article using a different term, but all agreeing that Democrats are scared because of the “top-two primary system” used in California.


BallotPedia explains the top-two primary system as “a type of primary election in which all candidates are listed on the same primary ballot. The top two vote-getters, regardless of their partisan affiliations, advance to the general election. Consequently, it is possible for two candidates belonging to the same political party to win in a top-two primary and face off in the general election.” It is often referred to as a “jungle primary.”


Democrats are desperate to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November, and California is crucial to that effort, but because of the top-two primary system, and an extremely crowded field for Democrats in attempting to flip Republican held seats, they are panicking because their candidates could divide the Democratic vote, leaving two Republicans to face off in November if they receive the two highest totals of votes on June 5, 2018.


Just a look at the stories from the last week on any search engine regarding this issue, shows how concerned the Democratic party is, and remember, we have been seeing this issue in headlines for weeks.



BIG TECH RIDES TO THE RESCUE FOR DEMOCRATS


Once again proving that while Democrats and liberals scream bloody murder over supposed “Russia” meddling and interfering in U.S. elections, the real culprits are our very own big tech companies, like Google, who has been busted by the website VICE as labeling the California Republican Party’s ideology as “nazism,” in their knowledge panel.



After being contacted by VICE, the “ideology” section from their knowledge panel had been removed. In a statement given to VICE, Google representatives claimed “vandalism” was responsible, as public source information sites such as Wikipedia, to which Google heavily relies upon for their “knowledge panels,” allow third party users to change information.


Google’s “knowledge panels” are automatically populated from a variety of sources, including Wikipedia. “Sometimes people vandalize public information sources, like Wikipedia, which can impact the information that appears in search,” a Google spokesperson said, in a statement. “We have systems in place that catch vandalism before it impacts search results, but occasionally errors get through, and that’s what happened here.”


The spokesperson stressed that the “Nazism” listing was not due to any manual change by any Google employee and that the company does not manipulate search results to favor any political ideology over another.


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