29. Peter Hasson, “Facebook Plans To ‘Dial Up’ Suppression of Certain News Outlets,” Daily Caller, May 1, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/05/01/facebook-newsfeed-trusted-sources-dial-up/.
30. “Facebook Engagement Trends in March: The Winners and Losers,” Digital Journalism, NewsWhip, https://www.newswhip.com/2018/04/facebook-engagements-march-2018/.
31. Paris Martineau, “Conservative Publishers Hit Hardest by Facebook News Feed Change,” The Outline, March 5, 2018, https://theoutline.com/post/3599/conservative-publishers-hit-hardest-by-facebook-news-feed-change?zd=4&zi=6ki6jclk.
32. George Upper and G. S. Hair, “Confirmed: Facebook’s Recent Algorithm Change Is Crushing Conservative Sites, Boosting Liberals,” Western Journal, March 13, 2018, https://www.westernjournal.com/confirmed-facebooks-recent-algorithm-change-is-crushing-conservative-voices-boosting-liberals/.
33. Oliver Darcy, “Inside the Identity Crisis at the Independent Journal Review, the Outlet That Has Become a Powerhouse in the Trump Era,” Business Insider, March 21, 2017, https://www.businessinsider.com/independent-journal-review-ijr-identity-trump-2017-3.
34. Joe Concha, “Millennial Conservative Site Lays Off Staff after Facebook Change,” The Hill, February 16, 2018, https://thehill.com/homenews/media/374195-millennial-conservative-site-lays-off-staff-after-facebook-change.
35. Joe Simonson, “Exclusive: Mass Layoffs at IJR, Leaving Future Uncertain,” Daily Caller, February 15, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/02/15/mass-layoffs-ijr/.
36. Matt Naham, “Killed by Facebook,” Rare, March 28, 2018, https://web.archive.org/web/20180330051511/https://rare.us/rare-news/the-media/killed-by-facebook-what-its-like-to-work-at-a-website-killed-by-facebook/.
37. Ibid.
38. Hasson, “Facebook Plans To ‘Dial Up.’ ”
39. Deepa Seetharaman, “Facebook’s Lonely Conservative Takes on a Power Position,” Fox News, https://www.foxnews.com/tech/facebooks-lonely-conservative-takes-on-a-power-position.
40. Ibid.
41. Benjamin Mullin and Sahil Patel, “Facebook Offers News Outlets Millions of Dollars a Year To License Content,” Wall Street Journal, August 8, 2019, https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-offers-news-outlets-millions-of-dollars-a-year-to-license-content-11565294575.
42. Laura Hazard Owen, “Facebook Launches Its ‘Test’ News Tab in the U.S., but You May Not See It Yet,” Nieman Lab, October 25, 2019, https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/10/facebook-launches-its-test-news-tab-in-the-u-s-but-you-may-not-see-it-yet/.
43. Oliver Darcy, “Facebook News Launches with Breitbart as a Source,” CNN Business, October 26, 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/26/media/facebook-news-breitbart/index.html.
44. Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman), “Promoting the Political Outfit Which Championed the ‘Alt-Right’ *Is* Embracing a Political Ideology, Adam,” Twitter post, October 26, 2019, https://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/1188172308155944961.
45. Charlie Warzel, “Why Will Breitbart Be Included in Facebook News?” New York Times, October 25, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/opinion/mark-zuckerberg-facebook.html.
46. Joe Marusak, “Facebook Apologizes for Banning Evangelist Franklin Graham for 24 Hours,” Charlotte Observer, December 29, 2018, https://www.charlotteobserver.com/living/religion/article223714480.html.
47. Ibid.
48. William Davis, “Franklin Graham Claims He Was Banned from Facebook,” Daily Caller, December 28, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/28/franklin-graham-banned-from-facebook/.
49. Sofia Carbone, “Kassam Banned from Facebook on UK Election Day,” HumanEvents.com, May 24, 2019, https://humanevents.com/2019/05/24/kassam-banned-from-facebook-on-uk-election-day/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F.
50. Ibid.
51. Mike Brest, “FB Post Honoring Slain Police Officer Labeled as ‘Against Our Community Standards,’ ” Daily Caller, December 31, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/31/facebook-police-community-standards-hate/.
52. Ibid.
53. Ginia Bellafante, “Is It Safe To Be Jewish in New York?” New York Times, October 31, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/nyregion/jewish-bias-safety-nyc.html.
54. Peter Hasson, “Tom Steyer Runs Facebook Ad Comparing President Trump to Saddam Hussein,” Daily Caller, October 29, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/29/tom-steyer-donald-trump-saddam-hussein/.
55. Peter Hasson, “Democratic Operatives Used Misleading Facebook Pages To Suppress GOP Turnout in Midterms,” Daily Caller, January 8, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/08/democrat-facebook-campaign-supress/.
56. Richard Nieva, “Facebook’s New Rosetta AI System Helps Detect Hate Speech,” Cnet.com, September 11, 2018, https://www.cnet.com/news/facebooks-new-rosetta-ai-system-helps-detect-hate-speech/.
57. Ezra Klein “Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s Hardest year, and What Comes Next,” Vox.com, April 2, 2018, https://www.vox.com/2018/4/2/17185052/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-interview-fake-news-bots-cambridge.
58. Tamar Lapin, “Facebook Flagged Declaration of Independence as Hate Speech,” New York Post, July 5, 2018, https://nypost.com/2018/07/05/facebook-flagged-declaration-of-independence-as-hate-speech/.
59. Rob Price, “Leaked Memo Spells Out Facebook’s New ‘Ground Rules’ Restricting Employee Discussions about Politics and Religion,” Business Insider, January 20, 2019, https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-new-rules-employee-discussions-politics-bullying-religion-2019-1.
60. Chris White, “Report: Facebook’s New Rules Ban Employees from Changing Collegues’ Minds,” Daily Caller, January 15, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/15/facebook-censorship-internal-memo/.
61. “About,” Facebook, https://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/.
Chapter Four: One Nation under Google
1. Jeff Desjardins, “How Google Retains More Than 90% of Market Share,” Business Insider, April 23, 2018, https://www.businessinsider.com/how-google-retains-more-than-90-of-market-share-2018-4.
2. Clare Carr, “Discover.google.com Gone as a Referring URL in Latest Referral Traffic Trends,” Parse.ly, January 7, 2019, https://blog.parse.ly/post/8225/december-2018-referral-traffic-trends-google-discover-googleapis/.
3. Tristan Harris, “How a Handful of Tech Companies Control Billions of Minds Every Day,” TED Talk, April 2017, https://www.ted.com/talks/tristan_harris_the_manipulative_tricks_tech_companies_use_to_capture_your_attention?language=en.
4. Robert Epstein, Roger Mohr Jr., and Jeremy Martinez, “The Search Suggestion Effect (SSE): How Search Suggestions Can Be Used TO Shift Opinions and Voting Preferences Dramatically and without People’s Awareness,” American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, April 26, 2018, http://aibrt.org/downloads/EPSTEIN_MOHR_&_MARTINEZ_2018-WPA-The_Search_Suggestion_Effect-SSE-WP-17-03.pdf.
5. Damore et al. v. Google, 18CV321529, (Superior Court of California, Santa Clara, April 18, 2018) https://www.dhillonlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180418-Damore-et-al.-v.-Google-FAC_Endorsed.pdf.
6. Ibid.
7. Althea Nagai, “The Implicit Association Test: Flawed Science Tricks Americans into Believing They Are Unconscious Racists,” Special Report No. 196, Heritage Foundation, December 12, 2017, https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2017-12/SR-196.pdf.
8. Julia Belluz, “Companies like Starbucks Love Anti-Bias Training. But It Doesn’t Work—and May Backfire,” Vox, May 29, 2018, https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/4/19/17251752/philadelphia-starbucks-arrest-racial-bias-training.
9. “Bias Busting @ Work Slides,” Ada Initiatives, October 20, 2015, https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RJorJs1sClLKHD4dqgrxOBXn-hhIyOXLu2k8zfHatwA/edit#slide=id.g1db96eec6_074.
10. Damore et al. v. Google, 18CV321529.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Google Workers for Action on Climate, “Open Letter on Climate Action at Google,” Medium.com, November 4, 2019, https://medium.com/@googworkersac/ruth-porat-497bbb841b52.
/> 15. J. Arthur Bloom, “Inside Google’s Microaggressions Newsletter: Pronoun Problems, Soy Police, and a Deaf Person Told To Watch Her Tone,” Daily Caller, June 25, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/25/inside-google-microaggressions-newsletter/.
16. Damore et al. v. Google, 18CV321529.
17. Chris White, “Google Leadership Reacting to Trump’s Victory,” Daily Caller, September 13, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/09/13/google-trump-election-video-sergey-brin/.
18. Allum Bokhari, “Leaked Video: Google Leadership’s Dismayed Reaction to Trump Election,” Breitbart, September 12, 2018, https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-google-leaderships-dismayed-reaction-to-trump-election/.
19. Benjamin Chapman, Paul Duberstein, Slivia Sörensen, and Jeffrey Lyness, “Gender Differences in Five Factor Model Personality Traits in an Elderly Cohort: Extension of Robuset and Surprising Findings to an Older Generation,” PubMed Central, 43(06) (October 2007): 1594–1603, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2031866/.
20. Peter Hasson, “Anti-Conservative Censorship Spreads from Campuses to Big Tech,” Daily Caller, January 10, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/01/10/anti-conservative-censorship-spreads-from-campuses-to-big-tech/.
21. Damore et al. v. Google, 18CV321529.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Meghan Fischer, Garrett Johnson, and Aaron Ginn, “Viewpoint Diversity in Tech: Reality or Myth?” Lincoln Network, January 6, 2018, https://joinlincoln.org/viewpoint-diversity.
25. Ibid.
26. Damore et al. v. Google, 18CV321529.
27. Ibid.
28. Allum Bokhari, “ ‘The Good Censor’: Leaked Google Briefing Admits Abandonment of Free Speech for ‘Safety and Civility,’ ” Breitbart, October 9, 2018, https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/09/the-good-censor-leaked-google-briefing-admits-abandonment-of-free-speech-for-safety-and-civility/.
29. Allum Bokhari, “The Good Censor—Google Leak,” Sribd.com, March 2018, https://www.scribd.com/document/390521673/The-Good-Censor-GOOGLE-LEAK.
30. John McKinnon and Douglas MacMillan, “Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function To Counter Travel Ban,” Wall Street Journal, September 20, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-workers-discussed-tweaking-search-function-to-counter-travel-ban-1537488472.
31. Allum Bokhari, “Exclusive: Leftist Google Employees Conspire To Undermine Breitbart’s Ad Revenue,” Breitbart, February 13, 2018, https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/02/13/exclusive-google-employees-are-trying-to-pull-ad-revenue-from-breitbart-news/.
32. Aaron Clifford, “3 Ways To Improve Your Google Search Rankings,” AdWeek, February 4, 2019, https://www.adweek.com/digital/3-ways-to-improve-your-google-search-rankings/.
33. “Building a Better News Experience on YouTube, Together,” Official Blog, YouTube, July 9, 2018, https://youtube.googleblog.com/2018/07/building-better-news-experience-on.html.
34. Peter Hasson, “Jimmy Kimmel Absolutely Butchers Gay Wedding Cake Ruling and It’s Not Even Close,” Daily Caller, February 9, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/02/09/jimmy-kimmel-absolutely-butchers-gay-wedding-cake-ruling-and-its-not-even-close-video/.
35. “ ‘Gay Wedding Cake’ YouTube Search Results” Page 1, YouTube, January 30, 2019, https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=CAA%253D&search_query=gay+wedding+cake.
36. Steven Crowder, “HIDDEN CAM: #GayWeddingCakes at Muslim Bakeries?” YouTube, April 2, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgWIhYAtan4.
37. Michelle Cretella, “I’m a Pediatrician. Here’s What I Did When a Little Boy Patient Said He Was a Girl,” Daily Caller, December 11, 2017, https://www.dailysignal.com/2017/12/11/cretella-transcript/.
38. Katrina Trinko, “YouTube Won’t Let a Medical Doctor Say This Sentence,” Daily Signal, November 5, 2019, https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/11/05/youtube-wont-let-a-medical-doctor-say-this-sentence/.
39. “Continuing Our Work To Improve Recommendations on YouTube,” Official Blog, YouTube, January 25, 2019, https://youtube.googleblog.com/2019/01/continuing-our-work-to-improve.html.
40. Casey Newton, “YouTube Says It Will Recommend Fewer Videos about Conspiracy Theories,” The Verge, January 25, 2019, https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/25/18197301/youtube-algorithm-conspiracy-theories-misinformation.
41. Grant Eizikowitz, “How To Get a Billion Views on YouTube,” Business Insider, April 20, 2018, https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-get-billion-views-viral-hit-youtube-2018-4.
42. Peter Hasson, “YouTube To Step Up Suppression of Videos That Don’t Violate Any Rules, Promote News Outlets,” Daily Caller, June 5, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/05/youtube-suppress-borderline-videos-promote-news/.
43. Ian Miles Cheong, “Conservative and Independent YouTube Channels Hit by Censorship and Demonetization,” Daily Caller, August 11, 2017, https://dailycaller.com/2017/08/11/conservative-and-independent-youtube-channels-hit-by-censorship-and-demonetization/.
44. Ian Miles Cheong, “YouTube Demonetizes Small Channels with New Partnership Policy,” Daily Caller, January 17, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/01/17/youtube-demonetizes-small-channels-with-new-partnership-policy/.
45. Eric Lieberman, “Google’s Fake News ‘Fact Checkers’ Include Snopes, Politifact,” Daily Caller, April 7, 2017, https://dailycaller.com/2017/04/07/googles-fake-news-fact-checkers-include-snopes-politifact/.
46. Ibid.
47. Peter Hasson, “Exclusive: Google Employees Debated Burying Conservative Media in Search,” Daily Caller, November 29, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/29/google-censorship-conservative-media/.
48. Alexi Mostous, “Google Faces Questions over Videos on YouTube,” The Times, February 9, 2017, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/google-faces-questions-over-videos-on-youtube-3km257v8d.
49. Olivia Solon, “Google’s Bad Week: YouTube Loses Millions as Advertising Row Reaches US,” The Guardian, March 25, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/25/google-youtube-advertising-extremist-content-att-verizon.
50. Peter Hasson, “Google Has an Actual Secret Speech Police,” Daily Caller, January 19, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/01/19/google-youtube-censorship-demonetize-hate-speech/.
51. Levi Sumagaysay, “Facebook, Google, Twitter Could Lose Unilever Ads,” Mercury News, February 12, 2018, https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/12/facebook-google-twitter-could-lose-unilever-ads/.
52. Mark Bergen, “YouTube’s New Moderators Mistakenly Pull Right-Wing Channels,” Bloomberg, February 28, 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-28/youtube-s-new-moderators-mistakenly-pull-right-wing-channels.
53. Peter Hasson, “YouTube’s Algorithms Continue Snaring Critics of Political Correctness,” Daily Caller, February 1, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/02/01/youtube-algorithm-dave-rubin-jordan-peterson-demonetize/.
54. Peter Hasson, “YouTube Sponsoring 9/11 Truther as Part of Multimillion Dollar Diversity Program,” Daily Caller, March 4, 2018, http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/04/youtube-9-11-truther/.
Chapter Five: Twitter’s Free Speech Farce
1. “Q4 and Fiscal Year 2018 Letter to Shareholders,” Twitter, February 7, 2019, Twitter, https://s22.q4cdn.com/826641620/files/doc_financials/2018/q4/Q4-2018-Shareholder-Letter.pdf.
2. Michael Gove, “Donald Trump Interview: Brexit Will Be a Great Thing,” The Times, January 15, 2017, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/donald-trump-interview-brexit-britain-trade-deal-europe-queen-5m0bc2tns.
3. Kelsey Lucas, “Meet the Serial Killer Who Murdered Living Babies,” Daily Signal, May 4, 2014, https://www.dailysignal.com/2014/05/04/meet-serial-killer-murdered-100-living-babies/.
4. Matthew Archbold, “Why Did Gosnell Sever the Babies’ Spinal Cord If They Were Already Dead?” National Catholic Register, April 23, 2013, http://www.ncregister.com/blog/matthew-archbold/why-did-gosnell-sever-the-babies-spinal-cord-if-they-were-already-dead.
5. Charlie Spiering, “58 Horrific Details from the Kermit Gosnell Trial That You Do Not
Want To Read,” Washington Examiner, April 18, 2013, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/58-horrific-details-from-the-kermit-gosnell-trial-that-you-do-not-want-to-read.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. David Weigel, “A Jury of Your Peers,” Slate, April 15, 2013, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/04/kermit-gosnell-abortion-trial-conservatives-took-to-twitter-to-shame-mainstream-media-into-covering-the-philadelphia-abortion-clinic-trial.html.
11. Rani Molla, “Tech Employees Are Much More Liberal Than Their Employers—at Least as Far as the Candidates They Support,” Vox, October 31, 2018, https://www.recode.net/2018/10/31/18039528/tech-employees-politics-liberal-employers-candidates.
12. Casey Newton, “Inside Twitter, Employees Reckon with Trump,” The Verge, January 12, 2017, https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/12/14256818/donald-trump-twitter-ban-employee-reaction.
13. Ibid.
14. Peter Leyden, “The Great Lesson of California in America’s New Civil War,” Medium, January 19, 2018, https://medium.com/s/state-of-the-future/the-great-lesson-of-california-in-americas-new-civil-war-e52e2861f30.
15. Peter Hasson, “Twitter CEO Caves to Liberal Backlash, Says He Was Wrong To Eat Chick-fil-A,” Daily Caller, June 10, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/06/10/twitter-ceo-chick-fil-a-gay-marriage/.
16. “Statement of Nick Pickles Before the Committee on the Judiciary,” U.S. House of Representatives, July 17, 2018, https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20180717/108546/HHRG-115-JU00-Wstate-PicklesN-20180717.pdf.
17. Dan Gainor, “Twitter CEO Dorsey: Comment Backing ‘Free Speech’ Was ‘a Joke,’ ” NewsBusters, October 16, 2018, https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/dan-gainor/2018/10/16/twitter-ceo-dorsey-comment-backing-free-speech-was-joke.
18. Paul Bedard, “Twitter Exec: ‘Jail,’ ‘Impeachment’ for Trump, Calls Social Media Chief ‘Racist D—k,’ ” Washington Examiner, July 15, 2019, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/twitter-exec-jail-impeachment-for-trump-calls-social-media-chief-racist-d.
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