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Google documents leaked by Zach Vorhies via Project Veritas

On August 14, 2019, Project Veritas published an on-record interview with former Google/YouTube engineer Zach Vorhies and a cache of about 950 pages of internal Google documents. Vorhies said they showed politically biased censorship. Several outlets judged the documents likely authentic but said they showed routine anti-spam, anti-misinformation and diversity work rather than proof of anti-conservative bias.

Aug 14, 2019
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Whose side it served: Republicans

The release was promoted by Project Veritas and conservative outlets to support claims that Google was biased against the right.

What the record shows

Project Veritas posted the files on a 'Google Document Dump' page in folders such as Censorship, Fake News, Machine Learning Fairness and Hiring Practices. Vorhies said he had given the documents to the Justice Department's antitrust division. He also said Google sent him a demand letter and later prompted a police 'wellness check'; San Francisco police confirmed to Project Veritas they responded to a 'mental health call' at his address, but did not say who called. The Next Web reviewed the folders and said they were mostly slides and papers, and that the dump exposed the personal information of dozens of employees. The Daily Beast reported that Vorhies had promoted QAnon and deleted tweets attacking Jews. Vorhies later co-wrote 'Google Leaks' (Skyhorse, August 3, 2021) and discussed it in interviews, including on Newt Gingrich's podcast.

In their words

“almost all just Power Point slides and papers”— Tristan Greene, The Next Web · source
“A powerful case against Google that deserves readers' attention.”— Kirkus Reviews, on Vorhies' book Google Leaks · source
The other side

Google has repeatedly said its rankings carry no notion of political ideology; Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe argued the documents' accuracy matters more than the source's reputation.

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