Google “Machine Learning Fairness” Whistleblower Goes Public, says: “burden lifted off of my soul”
Google “Machine Learning
Fairness” Whistleblower Goes Public, says: “burden lifted off of my soul”
VIDEO:
“the police began looking for me…”
Google
Sent Threatening Letter to Google Insider Zachary Vorhies: “they knew what I
had done and that letter contained several demands”
HUNDREDS
of Internal Google Documents Leaked to Project Veritas… news blacklist, “human
raters,” YouTube CEO video…
Google
Insider Wants More Insiders to Blow Whistle: “people have been waiting for this
Google Snowden moment where somebody comes out and explains what everybody
already knows to be true”
“I
felt that our entire election system was going to be compromised forever, by
this company that told the American public that it was not going to do any
evil”
The internal Google documents are
available here.
(San Francisco) A Google insider who anonymously leaked
internal documents to Project Veritas made the decision to go public in an
on-the-record video interview. The insider, Zachary Vorhies, decided to go
public after receiving a letter from Google, and after he says Google allegedly
called the police to perform a “wellness check” on him.
Along with the interview, Vorhies asked Project Veritas to publish
more of the internal Google documents he had previously leaked. Said Vorhies:
“I gave the documents to Project Veritas, I had been collecting
the documents for over a year. And the reason why I collected these documents
was because I saw something dark and nefarious going on with the company and I
realized that there were going to not only tamper with the elections, but use
that tampering with the elections to essentially overthrow the United States.”
In June of 2019, Project Veritas published
internal Google documents revealing “algorithmic unfairness.” Vorhies
told Project Veritas these were documents that were widely available to
full-time Google employees:
“These documents were available to every single employee within
the company that was full-time. And so as a fulltime employee at the company, I
just searched for some keywords and these documents started to pop up. And so
once I started finding one document and started finding keywords for other
documents and I would enter that in and continue this cycle until I had a
treasure trove and archive of documents that clearly spelled out the system,
what they’re attempting to do in very clear language.”
Intimidation
Shortly after the
report including the “algorithmic unfairness” documents was published, Vorhies received a letter from
Google containing several “demands.” Vorhies told Project
Veritas that he complied with Google’s demands, which included a request for
any internal Google documents he may have personally retained. Vorhies also
said he sent those documents to the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.
After having been identified by an anonymous account (which
Vorhies believes belongs to a Google employee,) on social media as a “leaker,”
Vorhies was approached by law enforcement at his residence in California.
According to Vorhies, San Francisco police received a call from Google which
prompted a “wellness check.”
Vorhies described the incident to Project Veritas:
“they got inside the gate, the police, and they started banging on
my door… And so the police decided that they were going to call in additional
forces. They called in the FBI, they called in the SWAT team. And they called
in a bomb squad.”
“[T]his is a large way in which [Google tries to] intimidate their
employees that go rogue on the company…”
Partial video of the incident was provided to Project Veritas. San
Francisco police confirmed to Project Veritas that they did receive a “mental
health call,” and responded to Vorhies’ address that day.
“Google Snowden moment”
Project Veritas has released hundreds of internal Google
documents leaked by Vorhies. Among those documents is a file called
“news black list site for google now.” The document, according to Vorhies, is a
“black list,” which restricts certain websites from appearing on news feeds for
an Android Google product. The list includes conservative and progressive
websites, such as newsbusters.org and mediamatters.org. The document says that
some sites are listed with or because of a “high user block rate.”
Another newly published document titled
“Fringe ranking/classifer: Defining channel quality” lists an example ranking
of various news sites, including CNN and FOX News. A document titled “Fake
news & other fringe: Trashy recap” reveals that videos are rated by
multiple “human raters.”
One internal Google
document labelled “coffee beans” appears
to show Google employees discussing diversity hiring practices. A related internal thread of
communications also shows an apparent discussion about the
“coffee beans” document, where one Google employee expresses concern that the
document appears to “misrepresent Google’s hiring practices in a way that could
raise legal questions…”
Another
thread of internal Google documents shows Google employees discussing President
Donald Trump’s infamous “covfefe” tweet, and a proposed plan to change the
Google translation of the term.
“You’re going to be a hero”
Vorhies told Project Veritas that he hopes more insiders at Google
decide to go public and discuss big tech abuses.
“My message to those that are on the
fence is I released the documents. They can go in, they can see everything that
Google is doing and then they can see the scale of it. Because I think that
there’s a lot of engineers that have a hint that things are wrong, but they
don’t understand the colossal scale that it’s at. And so for those people, I
say, look at the documents, take the pulse of America, see what’s happening and
come and tell the world you know what you already know to be true.”
Project Veritas requested comment from Google
on this story but did not receive a response at the time of this publication.
Leaked documents
Below is an index of internal Google documents Project Veritas
received from the Google insider. Each folder can be downloaded by clicking on
the links in the table. Project Veritas has not re-named any of the files, but
did arrange the documents into the downloadable folders below.
Censorship
|
Politics
|
Fake News
|
Hiring Practices
|
Leadership Training
|
Machine Learning Fairness
|
Partisanship
|
Psychological Research
|
Everything.zip
|
Misc and Video
|
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