I want you to stay safe stay healthy stay smart and well see you next time i meet the press. On this weeks show a relationship saving reminder valentines day is the 14th is technology now competing with cupid and is commercialism creeping out the on couple but 1st when a whistleblower spoke out google called the cops google says algorithms govern search leaked documents reveal human fingerprints holland cook in washington this is the big picture on r. T. America. Google has become of verb its internet search tool is that commonplace in our everyday lives like kleenex and scotch tape its become a generic term googles Corporate Mission statement is to organize the worlds information and make it universally accessible. And useful which google says it accomplishes by considering many factors including the words in your question the content of pages the expertise of sources and your language and location recently we introduce you to activist merriam 9 who spoke of google manipulating search results at the expense of alternative Health Information and while googles Parent Company itself has pharmaceutical subsidiaries if you missed that show you can find it where youll find all our shows at youtube dot com slash the big picture r. T. And merriam introduced us to a former Google Software engineer who says there are other ingredients in the secret sauce they were intending to scope the information landscape so that they could create their own version of what was objective lee true that for he has worked at google for 11 years he was a senior Software Engineer until he discovered what he calls their Artificial Intelligence censorship weapons sack welcome to the big picture. Good to be on here at that you for having me on when the search and social media go live at cirque used of putting their thumb on the scale the standard defenses the algorithms make the call tell us what else factors into results when we search. So it turns out that google is using an army of employees to rate and rank the entire internet and a person website place or thing are ranked according to their expertise authoritativeness and trustworthy score this eat score is actually derived by what we could p. V. Has to say about the website person or topic and from those from that each score the pages assigned a secret page rank score and then that is used to calibrate the search algorithms and rank pretty much the entire internet well that scares me right away because when you say wiki pedia everything ive ever seen on wikipedia i always make efforts to confirm elsewhere so theyre starting out on shaky ground arent they. Yeah i mean we could pedia has been politicized and its been vandalized over and over and over again and more recently in the last 3 or 4 years theres been a lockdown install to many many articles of political nature on wikipedia and you know if its no longer an open system then the question is who have who has access to the system and do they have you know the truth and honesty and integrity. You know in mind when theyre editing articles are they really just trying to score political points Something Else it always comes up when the internet royalty or dragged before congress is google a platform or is it a publisher. Right well you know section 230 of the Communications Decency act carved out Liability Protections as long as the. Big Tech Companies didnt. Censor political content and now it appears that everything that is passing through their platform is now ranked according to a political agenda and so the question is should those Companies Still maintain their liability shield or are they violating the spirit of you know section 230 of the Communications Decency act well theyre trying to sway a lot of other people. Right theyre trying to have the protections of a platform yet act with the discretion as a publisher yet merriam her name told us how google downplays alternative Health Information give us some examples of who and what else you have seen deemphasized in Google Search. Well one of the largest alternative Health Public publishers which is dr mercola has seen his organic search traffic to his page pretty much collapse down to less than one percent of what it was before and you know this happened also with self hacked and these other. Companies that are involved in disseminating information about health theyve seen all the organic traffic just really collapse and the question that you know we should be asking ourselves is you know should just this one company be able to decide that entire segment of the economy should just essentially end and you know you see this with you know right now its a war against alternative health. Its also a war against anyone that has any vaccine has it in c. And also you know climate scientists that you know assert that Global Warming is a sun driven phenomena. Are seeing there you know publications being hit with something called news guard which intercepts sort of like the the searches that people are doing on you tube and injecting a statement of you know this this is controversial and its probably not show its almost like a nutritional label for and so this is this is really quickly you know seeping into regular in searches what about politics for all the talk that donald trump benefited from this information in social media hasnt he actually suffered from Google Search. Yes absolutely and the thing is that a lot of it starts in google news articles that come in at 4 am in the morning. Train the Machine Learning algorithms in order to match keywords that people are going to be searching for politics that date to the certain articles that exist and so for example you know what i was able to see as a full Time Employee is that i was able to you know search for. Kids in cages and or you know immigration issues and it was going and what was happening is that Google Search was rerouting me to articles by c. N. N. And m. S. N. B c and these really these established Media Players that were in real time changing and redirecting my searches to land in these what i consider propaganda articles and you know this is just this doesnt just happen on on you know a particular instance it happens pretty much every single day when people go and search your own story is a chilling tale tell us what happened when you went public with the project veritas. Well i 1st you know when im not honestly public so i was under it. Veil of secrecy and about whom identity was but then after that disclosure i decided that after some harassment by google that i was just going to go public with everything and right before i did google red flagged me with the local police of San Francisco and they did a Wellness Check at my location. I decided that i was going to answer the door and then escalated they used a flimsy excuse to say that i had a bomb threat in my house and shut down the streets on the once here from 20th to valencia all the way to 22nd the balance of vacuity my neighbors the stores in the theater around the street i eventually came out of my house with my hands up with guns pointed at me where i surrendered to police so that they could give me a 6 part questionnaire about whether i had suicidal thoughts did you ever fear for your life when google and the cops came after you and do you now. You know i really did i was scared that you know accepting a lot of accidents happened in the past and so after realizing that the cops were not going to leave my house. I started to worry that they would come into my house and. Something bad may happen because you dont know whats going to happen so i figured that hey if theyre going to confront me that i might as well come out with this much public attention is possible and so when i came out of my house i realized that everyone had cameras that were directed at me and so if there was going to be any funny business then let it appear on 20 different cameras in broad daylight rather than inside of my house where the only cameras that could be working may be the body cams and maybe they might have a sudden malfunction function hey is that theres lots more to google than search and we have heard about the mails being scanned and the Google Chrome browser tracing our steps what is the true cost of these free. Services and do you recommend against using anything google. Or you know we have a saying in Silicon Valley which is if the product is free you are the product and so really googles entire platform is based upon surveillance of your data and then bundling that up and selling your habits online to various intelligence agencies around the world and so the question is whether google spying on you is you know is invalid thats their entire Business Model is to spy on you of course theyre spying on you and for people that are looking to sort of detox from all the surveillance capitalism thats secretly been employed i really recommend that they move away from g. Mail on to Something Like proton mail move away from Something Like chrome browser or firefox and move to what i use which is the brave browser which is based on the open source version of the chrome browser but with all of the spying you know services being ripped out by a really smart programmer and we can find that brave browser if we google it. Yeah or dot dot go or use the start page Search Engine to find it has shut the government regulate or break up Companies Like google and facebook and twitter the 1st amendment is a slippery slope. You know ive been thinking a lot about this google has you know in its possession extremely advanced and Artificial Intelligence i think that some Artificial Intelligence needs to be regulated by i dont think that google as a whole needs to be regulated i think that it does need to be broken up. You tube should not be under the corporate control of google because google just cant keep its hands out of the you know honey pot weve seen them. Try to hack culture hack politics and for them to be able to use their influence to you know hide searches and decide what the public gets to see on its various Services Needs to be looked at scrutinized and and broken off from the main company so that 4 hes thank you for joining us and for your conscience and for speaking out. Coming up valentines day is the super bowl for florists and chocolate tears and greeting cards but is commercialism creeping out the uncoupled and is technology competing with cupid this is the big picture on our t. America. Micrographs friends arent slights against you know whites or men for example theres their slights against women or nonwhites so its always the idea is that statements that directed toward a Privileged Group are interpreted differently than a statement directed toward an oppressed group and so thats kind of the whole framework and its its a political framework thats used the result is of course focusing at least on certain kinds of minor slights and say rather than ignored or then we need to call attention to them but its not all slights so its very political and its fun. Florists are flipping out hall mark is happy and godiva is going gaga as the valentines day Industrial Complex gears up for its super bowl on february 14th but is technology competing with cupid and is commercialism creeping out the uncoupled lets ask Kristin Rubin c. E. O. Of Ruby Media Group a Public Relations and social media group in manhattan for a great tutorial on Media Relations read Ruby Media Group dot com chris welcome back. Thank you thanks so much for having me matchmaking websites have been around since dot com and lots of us have traced our family trees by sending away our spirit chris tell us how d. N. A. Dating apps work. Yes so d. N. A. Match. Making is really going to be the future of personalized medicine so what theyre doing here is theyre taking sites like a 23. 00 and me or ancestry dot com one step further and instead of doing genetic testing after youre already married or after youre thinking about having kids what they want to do is basically get rid of any genetic hereditary diseases from people by blocking potential matches that may be problematic for you so the process works with you sending in your spit or doing a cheek swab he said that then they do you know type that information and then they will block potential matches that may have certain recessive traits or genes that would be problematic for potential kids so in other words were breeding nerve cells is that what its come down to the. Yeah i mean yes yes and no right so this is a this is sort of a highly controversial topic because some people say that you should just sort of let nature play out the way its supposed to play out and you should not have access to this information whereas i say that people are already getting this genetic testing again and whether its for prenatal reasons or if youre thinking about getting married i know a lot of people for example in certain genetic populations will get tested for taysachs disease so people are already doing this through i think these geneticists are saying were going to why dont you do it before hardock want you to do it way earlier on in the process well a friend here in washington was cyber chatting up someone on our time dot com when she said she had worked in the Bush Administration he assumed w. When she showed up at the restaurant it was clear she had worked for george h. W. Humans can use old photos to fill a book d. N. A. Doesnt live does it. It does not and so a lot of people will be getting surprises with these apps weve seen now where they get surprises with family members that they didnt expect but there is also something now where theyre going to get surprises you could be related to a match i mean think about that you could have shared to see ems with a match and that can make you think twice do you really want to marry someone that you may be related to well thats why these d. N. A. Dating apps i think are so critical right now because they aim to prevent that d. N. A. Doesnt lie when he will do these ancestry things and evidently find out that theyre the 16th cousin of Ronald Reagan or mark twain or somebody but they can as you mentioned earlier turn up Health Traits tell you if your intended is a distant cousin do you feel as though this is a biological compatibility breakthrough or are we inching toward a less romantic test to future. I dont see it as designer babies or a test. Future i think that this information is the future of personalized medicine and if used correctly it can be very helpful for people to know i dont think its i actually think you have way more access to information than just making a choice based on how someone looks in a Profile Photo when youre swiping left or right now you can actually see a number of other factors by these proprietary methods are we really going to match and id also say the fact that you can now take Something Like 23 and me and look at that list of carrier traits and show that to someone thats so powerful right wouldnt you rather have that Health Knowledge now then fit find it out later on i certainly would well who else is seeing it is another question fearing big brother arties resident privacy hawk lionel warns against doing ancestry dot com or 23 and me are you concerned about privacy once you let this data go so i think there are great risks and great rewards with this information and so the people that are concerned with privacy i understand that debate however you have to know there are some people that say im not going to do what im very against it because of privacy reasons well if your brother did it or your sister did it youre already in the system thats the unfortunate part of d. N. A. Testing that people dont realize so if any of your family members are doing it youre already in those databases on all of these sites of course there are concerns with insurance and with medical information being taken and also if you give out this information to a company or a dating site and then that dating app decides to sell that information to another 3rd party of course thats a valid concern kristie ruby Ruby Media Group dot com thanks again for stepping into the big picture. Thanks for having me now lets welcome back the author of among other books the power of off the mind full way to stay sane in a Virtual WorldNancy Collyer is a psycho therapist a popular speaker and a relationship coach nancy have social media and Online Dating trivialized relationships. I think they have i wouldnt ringback say trivialized but theyve made dating in any kind of long term way more difficult i would say theyve made it easier to meet people but the problem is because we feel like we have and lists options you know you come home from a great date but you know i could get on and maybe see someone that are great they make us less willing to work with the real hard parts of relationship to get their spot maybe not to get that right now we live in a