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Leaked Google employee's email reveals effort to boost Latino vote

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I'm interested in what is meant by "We pushed to get out the Latino vote with our features, our partners, and our voices." I noticed a lot of Google products telling to register and vote, and I am a young person living in a liberal area (and not to mention, Hispanic). Were these election notifications nation-wide or targeted? I think it would be sketchy - though not quite scandalous - if they targeted certain demographics.

This doesn’t seem like a serious story. Google helped some campaigns that non-partisanly ask people to participate in elections? So what?

Tucker Carlson is still shocked to learn that nonwhites are allowed to vote in the US. Things just haven’t been the same since Jim Crow retired.

I gather the key point is that one of the employees expressed disappointment in the election outcome, and suggested that other employees might feel similarly.

It looks like Google had rules to officially be non-partisan, but many employees were making race-based assumptions in an attempt to be partisan while appearing to follow the rules. (they would assume Hispanic==Democrat, then promote accordingly) Afterward, race-based assumptions are made about the feelings of other Google employees.

So we have partisan behavior using the might of Google, race-based assumptions about voters, and race-based assumptions about coworkers.

That's horrible! Can you imagine what type of an impact a major international conglomeration with clear political biases could have on the outcome of an election?

Thank god Fox News is making us aware of these types of shenanigans!

Fox News is pretty obvious about their biases, despite their calling their viewpoint, "fair and balanced." People might disagree with the interpretation, but they're not engaging in any kind of stealthy manipulation. As advertised from their origins, however, Google is supposed to be a series of impartial tools for organizing the world's information.

To you and me it might “pretty obvious”. It’s viewers are a different case. They really think there was a liberal conspiracy at Google to vote Hillary.

The leaked email claims that 29% of Latino voters supported Trump. That's the highest figure I've seen quoted for that demographic. (Until now, I'd seen estimates only go as high as 27%).

I have no idea how accurate that is.

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