This archive report was first published on 17 August 2019.
On August 14, 2019, investigative journalism group Project Veritas released a trove of over 950 documents from Google insider Zachary Vorhies, who has gone public with allegations of election manipulation and political bias against the tech giant.
According to Project Veritas, Vorhies stated that he came forward because he saw something 'ill-lit and iniquitous' going on with Google after realizing they were going to tamper with the US elections and use that tampering to overthrow the United States.
Video courtesy of Project Veritas
Vorhies told Project Veritas that he had been collecting the documents for over a year, and the reason he did so was that he saw something 'dark and nefarious' going on with the company.
He alleged that the documents he shared were widely available to Google employees and contained a number of files of concern for conservatives, including a 'news blacklist site for Google Now' which Vorhies claims is a shadowban that restricts news feeds from some websites on Android Google products.
Another document titled 'Fringe ranking/classifier: Defining channel quality' compiled a ranking of various news sites by Google's level of trustworthiness, while another internal document labeled 'coffee beans' shows alleged Google employees discussing diversity hiring practices at the firm.
According to Project Veritas, Vorhies hopes more Google workers come forward to discuss the practices of big tech firms.
He said, '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.'
View the full leaked documents at Project Veritas here.
