Breitbart  vs Google

There is so much information available to us every day that it is increasingly difficult to discern the truth. The big high-tech firms are manipulating the news that you see and what you learn from your search results. Politicians, like always, twist the facts to their benefit. Propaganda is probably at an all-time high. So how do you discern the truth? How do you make decisions in your life based on good information? What guides you?

These are questions that are becoming increasingly important, because deception is free and enticing while truth is expensive and fleeting. Fact of the matter is that we are living in an information age where free speech is so abused that lies affect who we are and what we do.

Breitbart News turned up an internal communication at Google admitting that there are huge teams in the organization working to censure information they deem is not appropriate for the public.

Breitbart reports:

“The comments came to light in a leaked internal discussion thread, started by a Google employee who noticed that the company had recently changed search results for “abortion” on its YouTube video platform, a change which caused pro-life videos to largely disappear from the top ten results. In addition to the “manual approach,” [Daniel] Aaronson (Google’s “trust and safety” team) explained that Google also trained automated “classifiers” – algorithms or “scalable solutions” that correct “problems” in search results.“

This was just one example. The communication, according to Breitbart, also showed interventions on “search results related to progressive activist David Hogg and Democrat politician Maxine Waters.” A Google spokeswoman, however, insisted to Breitbart that “Google has never manipulated or modified the search results or content in any of its products to promote a particular political ideology.” Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai emphatically testified to Congress that there was no manipulation by Google, but the internal communication “took issue with Pichai’s remarks, stating that it “seems like we are pretty eager to cater our search results to the social and political agenda of left-wing journalists.”

People are influenced by what they read, hear and see. Decisions are made. Beliefs are developed. Powers are using the information superhighway to manipulate politics, shape values, and control decisions. The scale of this manipulation is historic because never before have people been so connected with so few companies controlling the information.

So how do you discern the truth?

As Christ said in John 16:13, “But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.”

Know your values and weigh everything against them. If it doesn’t align, it is likely not true. That inner voice of the Holy Spirit guides us if we so allow it. In society the scales of truth are compromised; but, in the Holy Spirit, truth is pure.

Have a Blessed and Powerful Day!

Bill Wilson

www.dailyjot.com

Dems party in Puerto Rico. It’s been called a Congressional Junket. There are rules about how much complementary money can be accepted from the lobbyists who sponsor a junket. But they are usually very lavish trips with some ostensible stated purpose, in which the Congressmen spend nominal time discussing and the vast majority of the time playing.

This is the case for some 39 Democratic members of Congress, their staffs and their families who are the guests in Puerto Rico of 109 lobbyists from R.J. Reynolds (the tobacco company), Facebook, Comcast, Amazon, PhRMA, Microsoft, Intel, Verizon, the National Education Association, and others, according to the Washington Examiner. The optics at this time appear hypocritical.

Fox News reports that the Democratic Party junket “comes amid the ongoing partial government shutdown that has left around 800,000 federal workers with no pay since it began Dec. 22, making it the longest government closure in US history.” Meantime, Democratic Party leadership is hammering President Donald Trump about the impact of the shutdown on those not receiving paychecks, and the ultimate impact long-term on the economy.

When junkets like these, and there are probably more going on attended by members of both parties, cost aplenty with chartered jets and high-end hotel rooms and meals, it’s difficult for Americans to accept the sincerity of the party line—if only all of it were reported by the media.

Meantime, the “party line” is trying to keep quiet on who exactly is attending this junket.

A Twitter link by freelance writer David McAlpine, however, shows a picture of Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) in a bathing suit talking to a bikini–clad woman on the beach in Puerto Rico. McAlpine also posted a 2013 Daily Mail headline by reporter James Nye stating, “Senator Bob Menendez only ‘likes the youngest and newest girls’ says Dominican prostitute who ‘attended alleged sex parties with him’.”

While Menendez has been the target of many corruption and ethical stories and investigations, his behavior is also associated with what happens during junkets by members of both parties.

It’s likely, but no sure bet, that no taxpayer money is being spent on this, but taxpayers do pay the salaries of these elected representatives and their staffs attending. Taxpayers also must endure the votes cast in favor of big tobacco (while Democrats rail against the entire industry), big pharma (what’s the real deal with socialist medicine?), and high tech companies that use their networks to influence voters toward extreme “progressive” (socialist/communist) ideologies—not to mention the National Education Association’s leftist agenda with America’s children.

So a peek behind the scenes of the “life threatening” government shutdown reveals much. It’s similar to what Ezekiel saw in Ezekiel 8:9 when the Lord told him to dig into the wall of the sanctuary, “and behold the wicked abominations they do there.”

It’s just not right.

Have a blessed and powerful day,

The Daily Jot Staff

https://dailyjot.com