Digital Social Hour - Google's Shadow Algorithm: The Search Results They Hide | James O'Keefe Part 2 DSH #1010

Episode Date: December 24, 2024

🔍 Discover how Google manipulates search results through their "fairness" algorithms and shadow banning practices. In this explosive interview, investigative journalist James O'Keefe reveals insider information about Google's secret methods to control information flow and "prevent certain situations." Learn about shocking revelations from Google whistleblower Zachary Voorhees, who exposed the tech giant's machine learning algorithms and their impact on search results. O'Keefe shares concrete examples of search manipulation and discusses internal Google statements about controlling information. But that's not all - this packed conversation covers groundbreaking investigations into major institutions including Disney, Border Patrol, ActBlue, and more. O'Keefe discusses his documentary "Line in the Sand," whistleblower protection efforts, and his experiences facing pushback from powerful organizations. 🎯 From exposing national security leaks to uncovering corporate secrets, this interview reveals the hidden mechanisms controlling what information reaches the public. Hear firsthand accounts of investigative journalism that's making waves and holding powerful institutions accountable. Watch as O'Keefe shares his fearless approach to journalism, discusses his legal battles, and explains why speaking truth to power matters more than ever. 🚨 #news #stockmarket #searchresultbias #donaldtrump #crime #trump #news #ainews #seo #googlecoreupdate CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:36 - Line in the Sand 02:39 - Biden Expose 05:38 - Google Expose 06:38 - ActBlue Expose 07:23 - FBI Raid 09:47 - Elon Musk Buying X 10:59 - Bill Gates Insights 11:41 - Documentaries Overview 12:21 - Where to Find James APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail] GUEST: James O'Keefe https://www.instagram.com/jamesokeefeiii LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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What was his response? He was mute. They run away. Usually they park the car like way far away So it was a long awkward walk. I love how you filled that part too All right guys we got James here he just did 20 pull-ups With wearing this freaking thing. It's like 20 pounds. It's like a weighted vest. It's a weighted vest right there Yeah, well done man. And uh, you just had four whistleblowers on stage with you

Yes, what were they talking? So there was two board of relations one Disney one FEMA and these are people who are witness to for example children being trafficked or FEMA not doing their jobs the Disney guy children being transitioned To a different gender and they are very brave people on stage with me and we're announcing this program we're going to defend them pay their legal bills and support them when they speak the truth wow so the two border ones is the government going after them yes well they are but there's a new administration coming january 20th so hopefully that'll change yeah and line in the sand just came out congratulations line in the sand i'm very

proud of the film with Tucker Carlson. It was really a special movie because it was a documentary, but it was not really like any documentary anyone's ever seen. It shows versus tells. It takes you there. I go to Mexico. I follow them on the train, all illegal immigrants, all the way to Los Angeles, New York City, where the fraud is being perpetrated, and in Texas where they have the NGOs that house all the unaccompanied children. Yeah how much did it cost to get across the border? Oh so me personally I didn't cross the border

but they about ten thousand dollars for many of the people that we put cameras on and sometimes it could range it could be from fifteen hundred to thirty thousand for some of the Chinese illegal immigrants wow and that's the mexican border right yes i wonder if that's going on in canada too it is exactly a zackery apotheker one of the board of agents stationed in vermont on the canadian border i did not realize how porous it was there but a lot of people sneaking into vermont from quebec really i did not know that that's not really being covered

too much in the mainstream now it's not and zackery in the end of the film, if you haven't seen line in the sand, it's very powerful. He he's in his patrol car on the Canadian border, just crying because he's so frustrated by the the coverups of children getting raped. Right. And he speaks publicly. You're not supposed to speak publicly when you're in your patrol car. He does. So They took his gun, his badge away for speaking out. Damn. I also saw you recently exposed Biden. Someone was talking about how he was pretty much declining mentally. An advisor to the National Security Council and the White House was caught on one of my hidden cameras

on a date, spilling all this information while Biden can't complete a sentence. That may not be that shocking, but he says worse than we think. And further, the guy works for the National Security Council, which is like high level. And he's just blabbing in a restaurant. And it begs the question, what type of people do we have working in the intelligence community that's stupid? It's the worst espionage ever to be out there and just tell him,

what if I was a Chinese spy? Right. that i think that was the real big headline of that story i mean i'm sure other countries have sent spies and got information and we don't know it yeah and with me i'm a reporter so i publish it but i just said to the guy confronted him on uh... this week you're lucky i'm not a chinese spy right what was his response he was mute they uh... he they run they run away and usually they parked the car like way far away So it was a long I love how you filled that part

You questioned them all the way out. Yes. I was wearing a tuxedo because I was coming from an event and It was a long walk. Yeah, you're good at lining up those dates man. Yes. Well done. Here's what we do smooth talker Yeah, and you just got to talk about them. You got to express interest in them and people, people confess their secrets. Yeah. I loved your investigation into Disney by the way. Disney over the summer. And the guy here from Disney was one of the guys inside the company that gave us the Intel and they fired him and we just gave him a hundred thousand dollar check to support. Wow. Well done, man. Well done. Disney just removed a transgender scene. I don't know if you saw this from one of their movies. I did not know

that. Yeah it happened recently there was a scene about transitioning and it got removed. I didn't know it was you know what movie it was? I don't we'll have to link it below but yeah I think you played a role in that so. Well and people said don't go after Disney they're too powerful and I don't know I just i think i think it's the public or spec the more if i don't show favor or lack of favor for this or that if you're doing something wrong in trying to hide it all i'll expose you get that's what i love about you're not scared of any company i mean i

it i was in l a making this film in post-production and i was a couple of years ago that is the and there were conversations of people said don't go after disney and i said no i'm not, don't go after Disney, don't go after Disney. And there were conversations of people saying, don't go after Disney, and I said, no, I'm not going to not go after... BetMGM, authorized gaming partner of the NBA, has your back all season long. From tip-off to the final buzzer, you're always taken care of with the sportsbook Born in Vegas. That's a feeling you can only get with BetMGM. And no matter your team, your favorite player, or your style, there's something every NBA fan will love about BetMGM.

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I, as you know, I was, I was terminated from my own creation. I was fired from project Veritas. The institution I created in many regards do the same work is it's, it runs contrary to being part of an institution. You kind of have to be a Maverick. You have to be an outsider to do this. Yeah. Insane.

What did you find out at Google? I did many stories on Google. I think the one that comes to mind is Zachary Voorhees exposed Google's machine learning algorithms about fairness. And if the information is unfair, they'll change the search results to make it fair. You saw that with the Trump episode. Whatever that means. I mean, that's like science fiction stuff.

I mean, what do you mean information is fair? I think you want when you, I think you want true information. So that was a really interesting one. I mean, you saw with the Trump Rogan episode, you couldn't search it on Google. Well, there you go. It didn't pop up. That's an example. And certain topics are still shuttle banned to this day. Yes. And I mean, and that's that, that's definitely an example. It's a circumstantial example.

And you got to go into the code and get into the coding get that and get the damage was one what we got from jen janai google said we have to quote this is in twenty twenty uh... twenty nineteen said we have to prevent the next trump situation to say we have a retro from winning the election right so they have them say it out that the code that shows it actually in the act blue was a big expose a bit as well twenty. 2023 and 24, we exposed FEC donations to Act Blue. Very curious that there were people that were in poverty donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to do you think campaign

financing laws should be changed? Cause there's certain parties raising way more than others. I think the federal election commission needs to investigate that situation. I, I don't know, I never got to the bottom of why that was happening. Was it money laundering from a foreign country? Was it something to do with Stripe and the payment processor? Was it a glitch on the FEC website? We never got the answer. It's remarkable how few people were curious except for the people, not the institutions. They didn't care. So we haven't found the truth on that one.

FBI still has your phones. Yeah, I was raided three and a half years ago. They still have my devices. I mean, I can get them back, but they probably put all this type of spyware on there. So I don't know if I want them back. I wouldn't want those back. In principle, I should have them back. Yeah, three and a half years. And you've probably made numerous requests and they're just being ignored. I've spent millions on legal fees and motions and they rated me and they could still indict me. I don't think they will. The ACLU is defending me. And it was definitely a chilling effect. You want to talk about chilling effect in the press. To raid a journalist's house? That's the greatest chilling effect ever.

Yeah. To raid a journalist's house, that's the greatest chilling effect ever. Yeah. And perhaps one of the most venal sins to do it to a reporter because you're chilling out all the source come forward. It was really despicable and traumatizing. Absolutely. Did they ever tell you what story that caused that? Yeah, it was the actually Biden diary, the daughter of the president.

Hunter Biden? Ashley, his sister has a diary and someone provided it to me and I looked into it, never published it. They raided me anyway. Wow. That's nuts, man. I hope you beat that case, dude. I'll be supporting you. I hope I do more than beat it. I hope the people who do this go to jail. Yeah. Because it's illegal. Well, the attorney general of the United States, Merrick Garland, forbids, expressly forbids force against news reporters and they just broke their own law. and that's why the laws don't really matter it's who's the one enforcing them well Christopher resigns so we have a I think we have a change of momentum or the pendulum is shifting here for a little while for sure

absolutely you posted on X that you believe Edward Snowden should be pardoned I do I do as well I think Trump can make a big decision with that one. Do you think he'll do it? Do I think he'll do it? I don't know. I don't know about predicting whether he will do it. I think he should do it. And I think what he uncovered with spying on people is, you know, sometimes that's what you have to do. Sometimes you just have to do things that are uncouth or not necessarily legal, if you're a whistleblower doing it, you have to do it because we are predicated as a country on the public's right to know information.

That is what, if you wanna live in a different country where you are abiding by a different set of values, but America is based on our, our, the consent of the government and therefore the public must know things like that. Therefore, I think you should be pardoned. Absolutely. Elon Musk buying X was that the savior of social media in your opinion? I think it was the greatest thing that ever happened to the first amendment in the history of Western civilization. I think it was massive for someone like you because you could actually share your stories. Like literally.

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I don't think that any of that would happen. And, you know, I've been fighting the people most of my life. I've been doing this since I was in college, so 20 years. And battled and underdog and constantly under. So it does feel weird to have the culture and climate that we're in right now. Yeah. We went to the same college, by the way.

Is that right? Rockers. I think I remember you telling me that. What year did you graduate? I did not graduate. More power, too. Yeah, I remember you telling me that. Yeah. And what year did you graduate? I did not graduate. Okay. More power too. Yeah. I started in 2015. Okay.

Made it a year. Well, what, what was New Brunswick? Yeah. Okay. Oh, of course. New Brunswick. Yeah. Is that where you're from?

I'm from New Jersey. Yeah. Where? Bridgewater. I'm from Bergen County. Let's go. Yeah, let's go. Jersey people work hard, man.

Jersey people. They're loyal. Jersey people are, you know, special people. They are. Jersey Shore painted us in a bad light. I don't even know. I think all those people are from like New York, Binghamton or something. They weren't even from New Jersey. When are you investigating Bill Gates? Because that's needed. You know, I can't comment on things I'm doing at the moment, but in late January, I got something coming. I love it it dude. I love it. You probably get pulled in so many directions. There's too many and that's why you have to be careful with your time because everyone's got a

story to tell but it really comes down to the evidence that you're showing not just the testimony but the evidence. Yeah what do you think of all the drone stuff happening in Jersey in New York? I don't have a comment because I don't know. I don't like to speculate and I have to speculate. I haven't looked into that so I don't know. I don't like to speculate and I have to speculate. I haven't looked into that Yeah, I don't know. I like that, you know people could have made up an answer. I don't know. I I I try to only Say things I know so

We'll see. Yeah any documentaries you're working on next though. Well, I'm trying to get line of the sand Widely distributed right now. It's on Tucker Yeah, and I'm working on maybe theaters maybe nice because I really think it's an important and seminal work for me It was really really hard to make and a very unusual film That's gonna be a tough battle because what they did to that one movie the child trafficking one. I forget the name It was a couple of years. Yeah, they blocked it in a lot of theaters, right? I think things are changing in the market economy. I think that's going to change.

I think people want to see this sort of thing. That's good, man. Well, I can't wait to keep up with you. Where can people keep up to date with what you're up to? I'm James O'Keefe III. James O'Keefe III on Instagram, X, Facebook. O'Keefe Media Group dot com is, Facebook. O'Keefe Media Group.com is my company. Citizen Journalism Foundation is my nonprofit.

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