[mrosett]

I'm no fan of James O'Keefe, but some of the direct quotes are much more incriminating than this response makes them out to be:

> “Elizabeth Warren is saying we should break up Google. And like, I love her but she’s very misguided, like that will not make it better it will make it worse, because all these smaller companies who don’t have the same resources that we do will be charged with preventing the next Trump situation, it’s like a small company cannot do that.”

She may have "used some imprecise language" but I have no doubt that many Google employees do indeed feel like they should use their company's influence to prevent "the next Trump situation."

Also, there's no way she wrote this on her own. Google's PR machine is very proactive, and the enormous collection of messages she received when she landed undoubtedly included a stern warning not to say anything more in public. She may have written part of this, but at the very least it was a team effort.

[jjeaff]

It doesn't seem incriminating at all. When she says "the Trump situation" in this context it seems clear she is talking about making sure that foreign and otherwise nefarious actors are not able to game search results and the ad system to spread disinformation. Which is what happened in the last election.

[tropo]

That will always happen, but what is the significance? Trump himself spent six or seven hundred million dollars, and Clinton spent about double that. Where is the evidence that any "foreign and otherwise nefarious actors" did even 1% of that?

It makes no sense to get riled up over numbers that would be rounded to zero.

[anon12345690]

right after they spent years telling everyone that there was no tampering? so did they lie before or is she lying now?

why dont you watch the leaked video of the meeting right after the election that shows them all being upset and saying it cant happen again. they openly say this in teh company and email about it all the time.

[diydsp]

Exactly. It's a shorthand. Not a huge fan of google or Trump, but it's just like when he said the "moon" was part of "Mars" the other day. They're part of the same program, obv not the same binary system...

I think delusions like this persist because 1. ppl aren't used to communication on that bureaucratic shorthand. 2. it makes it seem easy like they really nailed someone.