With the presidential election up and coming in less than two months, big tech is at it again – secretly facilitating the Democrats in their campaign. Google and Amazon have been caught recently in programming their services to sway voters toward Kamala Harris and against President Trump in November 2024.
Google has been used by the Biden administration for spying on American citizens as was learnt from an “accidentally unsealed court document” found by Forbes in October 2021. Now an undercover video by the team of investigative journalist James O’Keefe has revealed that Google is using its ads to favor the Harris campaign with the goal of leading her to victory in the November election.
The video was posted by O’Keefe on September 9 to his X (Twitter) page and it shows Dakota Leazer, a strategist at Google, telling that Google has been actively coordinating with the Harris campaign and essentially promoting rhetoric that is very pro-Kamala. O’Keefe also noted that Leazer sees Google as a very liberal/progressive company that is doing their pro-Kamala work for financial gains.
Soon after the video’s release on X, Leazer deleted his TikTok videos and removed his bio and contact information from his profile as reported by O’Keefe in another post on X.
https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1833270384130654708
A couple days later, O’Keefe confronted Leazer about the video. Unaware that he had been recorded on video by the O’Keefe’s team, Leazer first denied that he said such things about Google. But when O’Keefe showed him the video, Leazer started avoiding O’Keefe and walked away to a nearby Whole Foods.
https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1833951916923007290
Not surprisingly, mainstream media completely blacked out on the revealing story and only some conservative news sites like RealClearPolitics reported it.
Not long before O’Keefe’s sting reporting exposed Google’s coordination with the Harris campaign, the widely popular Amazon was caught on video doing something similar. Early this month, videos by different people started showing how Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa answered their question why they should vote for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. When asked “why should I vote for Donald Trump?” Alexa is seen telling that it cannot promote a specific party or candidate. But when asked “why should I vote for Kamala Harris?” Alexa started praising Harris and her various campaign promises like fighting for social justice, addressing income inequality, and others.
Conservative commentator Benny Johnson posted one such video with his message that this means Amazon has been caught rigging the 2024 presidential election against Trump. Johnson called for boycotting Amazon and wrote: “62 days away from the 2024 election. Now is the time to act. Join the Amazon boycott. Get massive woke corporations out of our elections and politics. Enough is enough.”
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1831131822559805645
Soon after the videos went viral on social media and earned a backlash against Amazon with many calling for legal action against the company, Amazon responded by calling it an error. The Register reported on September 4 that they received a comment from an Amazon spokesperson who did not provide details of the nature of the error but said that it was quickly fixed:
The company didn’t give any additional details about why the endorsement disparity was present, but did tell us it has teams dedicated to continuously auditing its systems to detect content that violates its policies and preventing similar situations.
