JaySecrets
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In a very contentious and tense political climate, where access to trustworthy information is important, I find it odd that culturally we have accepted the idea that the search engines we use, search engines produced by a segment of society that is inarguably biased towards one side, and that intentionally use their own decisions as to what is "authoritative" and keep the nature of their algorithms as a "black box" (their words, not mine), are somehow unbiased and trustworthy sources. We have literally turned our informational education over to biased gatekeepers like Google, YouTube, and other content providers who borrow heavily from their content. Instead of going out and doing our own research, dare I say it, with tools NOT controlled by Big Tech and Big Media, we act as though if it can't be found on the internet, or at least easily found, it is inaccurate and doesn't exist.
This premise, of course, is challenged by the mainstream, or so-called "legacy" media sources. I would propose that the challenge comes from two lines of objection. First, much of the "reporting" that happens today is not actual reporting. It is using search engines to find the results they want, based on their bias, in order to function as activists, not reporters in any traditional sense. This goal was admitted to in internal meetings for a few major media sources, and caught on tape during the last couple election cycles. And I am not saying only the left does this. NewsMax is as guilty as CNN at times. The difference, in my view, is that NewsMax is rather up front with their conservative bias, where CNN, MSNBC, PBS, BBC, NPR, and others still pretend to be neutral and unbiased, when any viewer can easily recognize that the facts are to the contrary. Second, Those same articles and reports being produced by "legacy" media are then the articles that Google and other search engines cite, place as dominant in their search engines, and put on their home pages. You got that, right? The media cites the search engine, that then cites the media that cites them, that then cites the search engines... To put it bluntly, and a bit crassly, it's kind of a giant circle-jerk.
I am aware that there will be great objection to what I am saying, but I think it is important at this juncture to challenge the prevailing narratives. There really is a truth war going on in our society, and if facts keep getting scrubbed and buried, we erase history to our own detriment. This is not about left or right. It is about truth.
Ask any conservative who has done Google searches to be able to cite sources for information straight from the source they have seen with their own eyes days or weeks prior to their sharing it. Suddenly the search results turn up nothing of what was there before, and are replaced with leftist's articles saying the exact opposite. When BLM got caught stating on their own web page that one og their primary goals was to destroy the nuclear family, it was quickly scrubbed, and it became almost impossible to find the screen shots via search engines. You had to know exactly what web sites to go to to even see what had been there. When the UN got caught putting out, in black and white, what THEY called Agenda 21, an internal goals report that should terrify everyone with any love for individual liberty and life, they scrubbed it from the internet. There were plenty of sources that had screenshots and digital copies the UN had no access to, but almost immediately after the conservative and anti-globalist outcry, it was almost impossible to find a document that was published BY the UN anywhere in search engines, and again, unless you knew what sites to go to, you would think it never happened. What replaced that information? Accusations of conspiracy theory. I could go on. Tara Reid's very verifiable accusations against Joe Biden. Several women's accusations against Clinton. The Hunter Biden laptop story. Every bit of exonerating evidence for Trump. The liberal disclaimers pasted on almost any conservative content on YouTube, if that content makes it up at all. It goes on and on.
If you are a liberal reading this, I challenge you. Don't just dismiss my claims here. Test them for yourself. Do search on any Conservative topic, making it clear from your inquiry that you are looking for conservative sources. I don't care what the topic is: abortion, Trump, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, taxes, January 6, the last election... Hell, type in the word "idiot" and see what you find. These results are not by accedent. if they were they would not be so consistently one-sided. By the very nature of random odds and statistics, SOME of the searches would default the other way. ANd do the reverse. Type in liberal-based questions and quiries. See if you get the opposite results. The gatekeepers are keeping vital information from the public.
So before you act as though your search results and mainstream media and government sources are worthy of trust, I encourage you to challenge and question them. Doubt them. Call them liars to their face and see what comes to the surface. Without real access to ALL the information, there is no free press, no real reporting of facts, and the public gets led down paths to dangerous agendas like sheep to the slaughter. Once upon a time, free thinking liberals questioned everything, did not trust those in power, called everyone from the UN to the White House to the State House to the media liars until they could prove otherwise. I suspect we could use a good dose of that kind of cynicism once again.
https://www.allsides.com/blog/google-news-shows-strong-political-bias-allsides-analysis
This premise, of course, is challenged by the mainstream, or so-called "legacy" media sources. I would propose that the challenge comes from two lines of objection. First, much of the "reporting" that happens today is not actual reporting. It is using search engines to find the results they want, based on their bias, in order to function as activists, not reporters in any traditional sense. This goal was admitted to in internal meetings for a few major media sources, and caught on tape during the last couple election cycles. And I am not saying only the left does this. NewsMax is as guilty as CNN at times. The difference, in my view, is that NewsMax is rather up front with their conservative bias, where CNN, MSNBC, PBS, BBC, NPR, and others still pretend to be neutral and unbiased, when any viewer can easily recognize that the facts are to the contrary. Second, Those same articles and reports being produced by "legacy" media are then the articles that Google and other search engines cite, place as dominant in their search engines, and put on their home pages. You got that, right? The media cites the search engine, that then cites the media that cites them, that then cites the search engines... To put it bluntly, and a bit crassly, it's kind of a giant circle-jerk.
I am aware that there will be great objection to what I am saying, but I think it is important at this juncture to challenge the prevailing narratives. There really is a truth war going on in our society, and if facts keep getting scrubbed and buried, we erase history to our own detriment. This is not about left or right. It is about truth.
Ask any conservative who has done Google searches to be able to cite sources for information straight from the source they have seen with their own eyes days or weeks prior to their sharing it. Suddenly the search results turn up nothing of what was there before, and are replaced with leftist's articles saying the exact opposite. When BLM got caught stating on their own web page that one og their primary goals was to destroy the nuclear family, it was quickly scrubbed, and it became almost impossible to find the screen shots via search engines. You had to know exactly what web sites to go to to even see what had been there. When the UN got caught putting out, in black and white, what THEY called Agenda 21, an internal goals report that should terrify everyone with any love for individual liberty and life, they scrubbed it from the internet. There were plenty of sources that had screenshots and digital copies the UN had no access to, but almost immediately after the conservative and anti-globalist outcry, it was almost impossible to find a document that was published BY the UN anywhere in search engines, and again, unless you knew what sites to go to, you would think it never happened. What replaced that information? Accusations of conspiracy theory. I could go on. Tara Reid's very verifiable accusations against Joe Biden. Several women's accusations against Clinton. The Hunter Biden laptop story. Every bit of exonerating evidence for Trump. The liberal disclaimers pasted on almost any conservative content on YouTube, if that content makes it up at all. It goes on and on.
If you are a liberal reading this, I challenge you. Don't just dismiss my claims here. Test them for yourself. Do search on any Conservative topic, making it clear from your inquiry that you are looking for conservative sources. I don't care what the topic is: abortion, Trump, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, taxes, January 6, the last election... Hell, type in the word "idiot" and see what you find. These results are not by accedent. if they were they would not be so consistently one-sided. By the very nature of random odds and statistics, SOME of the searches would default the other way. ANd do the reverse. Type in liberal-based questions and quiries. See if you get the opposite results. The gatekeepers are keeping vital information from the public.
So before you act as though your search results and mainstream media and government sources are worthy of trust, I encourage you to challenge and question them. Doubt them. Call them liars to their face and see what comes to the surface. Without real access to ALL the information, there is no free press, no real reporting of facts, and the public gets led down paths to dangerous agendas like sheep to the slaughter. Once upon a time, free thinking liberals questioned everything, did not trust those in power, called everyone from the UN to the White House to the State House to the media liars until they could prove otherwise. I suspect we could use a good dose of that kind of cynicism once again.
https://www.allsides.com/blog/google-news-shows-strong-political-bias-allsides-analysis
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