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Comment by swiley | Hacker News Reader

If Google wanted to be responsible they would remove videos covering the election in any way.

If there had actually been widespread fraud is this something we would want Google doing? They have said themselves that they intend to manipulate elections in the US and this is exactly how they would do it.

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>> ... is this something we would want Google doing? They have said themselves that they intend to manipulate elections in the US and this is exactly how they would do it.

> They have said themselves that they intend to manipulate elections

Source please. That's a bold statement.

I am not the OP, but they might have meant this: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-googl...

Also, as Moway linked to in this thread¹: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRf9UxsM-NE

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25359710

As someone very familiar with the original tgif, I still can't see the leap from having leadership acknowledge the majority of their employees feeling apprehensive about the election results, and being worried about the potential for their products to be used for what amounts to psy ops, to talking about google somehow manipulating elections.

It's a crappy source but I'm busy and noprocrast will run out soon. It's other places too and was all over hackernews when it happened.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7178881/Undercover-...

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