Robert Epstein: ‘Google’s Leaders Have Been Perjuring Themselves Before Congress’

Project Veritas’s latest exposé gave “smoking gun proof” that Google’s executives, including CEO Sundar Pichai, “have been lying under oath” and “perjuring themselves before Congress,” said Dr. Robert Epstein, senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

“I told you so,” said Epstein of the Google whistleblower’s revelations, noting that leaked documents prove Google’s “re-ranking of search results” and use of “blacklists” for “political” purposes. “All of this is about [politics],” he added.

“His set of documents actually includes two blacklists,” said Epstein. “It includes two actual blacklists. … One is a blacklist for websites, and the other is a blacklist for search terms. … Google’s leaders who testified before Congress — one of them right in front of me just a few weeks ago — have been denying that they have blacklists. Well, they can’t do that, anymore. They’ve also said over and over and over again in response to my research, ‘We never do re-ranking of search results.’ These documents show beyond any doubt whatsoever that Google has teams that do re-ranking of search results. They actually use that term internally in the company.”

“They actually do re-ranking of search results to suit their needs, political and otherwise. It’s called the ‘Twiddler’ system,” remarked Epstein. “One of the documents is called the ‘Twiddler Quickstart Guide,’ and it explains how various teams have access to very specialized software that allows them to change how certain kinds of content get ranked in search results. … They literally re-rank search results to meet their ever-changing needs, and some of those needs are political needs.”

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