this. was. on this week's show a relationship saving reminder valentine's day is the 14th is technology now competing with cupid and is commercialism creeping out the uncoupled but 1st one 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 it's internet search tool is that commonplace in our everyday lives like kleenex and scotch tape it's become a generic term google's corporate mission statement is to organize the world's 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 had 9 who spoke of google manipulating search results at the expense of alternative health information and while google's parent company itself has pharmaceutical subsidiaries if you miss that show you can find it where you'll 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 before he's 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. to the beyond here think you for having me on when the search and social media go lie 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 i've ever seen on wikipedia i always make efforts to confirm elsewhere so they're starting out on shaky ground aren't they. yeah i mean we competed has been politicized and it's been vandalized over and over and over again and more recently in the last 3 or 4 years there's been a lockdown installed to men. many articles of political nature on wikipedia and

you know if it's 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 they're 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 didn't. 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 they're trying to sway a lot of other people. right they're 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 they've 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 it's a war against alternative health. it's 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 phenomenon are seeing their 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 it's probably not show it's 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 hasn't 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. doesn't just happen 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 went anonymously public so i was under a 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 the use diplomacy excuse to say that i had

a bomb threat in my house and shut down the streets on the lunts 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 venture 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 'd 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 don't know what's going to happen so i figured that hey if they're 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 may have a sudden malfunction sudden function hey is that there's 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. where you know we have a saying in silicon valley which is if the product is free you are the product and so really google's 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 that's their entire business model is to spy on you of course they're spying on you and for people that are looking to sort of detox from all the surveillance capitalism that's 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 i've 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 don't 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 can't keep its hands out of the you know honeypot we've 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 is to see on its various services needs to be looked at scrutinized and and broken off from the main company so that for he is thank you for joining us and for your conscience and for speaking out. coming up valentine's

day is the super bowl for florists and chocolate tears and greeting cards but is commercialism creeping out the on call polled and is technology competing with. this is the big picture on our t. american. orbed.

i can't show you my face but i'm going to teach you must or in 9093 this man was sentenced to death. charged with capital murder even though he didn't have the gun didn't pull the trigger didn't intend to kill anybody to mention living in your best for the week with the scent of the 23. i doubt that had to serve to be.

confined within 4 gray walls. using. them to leave dents room. florists or flipping out hall mark is happy and godiva is going gaga as the valentine's day industrial complex gears up for its super bowl on february 14th but is technology competing with cupid and there's commercialism creeping out the uncoupled let's 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 at 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 spick chris tell us how deep the dating apps work. yes so d.n.a. match making is really going to be the future of personalized medicine so what they're doing here is they're taking sites like a $23.00 and me or ancestry dot com one step further and instead of doing genetic testing after you're already married or after you're 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 take 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 we're breeding nerve cells is that what it's come down to. 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 it's 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 it's for prenatal reasons or if you're thinking about getting married i know a lot of people for example in certain genetic populations will get tested for tay-sachs disease so people are already doing this through i think these geneticists are saying we're going to why don't you do it before hardock want you 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 doesn't lie does it. it does not and so a lot of people will be getting surprises with these apps we've seen now where they get surprises with family members that they didn't expect but there's also something now where they're going to get surprises you could be related to a match i mean think about that you could have shared the cm's with a match and that can make you think twice do you really want to marry someone that you may be related to well that's why these being a dating apps i think are so critical right now because they to prevent that d.n.a. doesn't lie well he will do d.n.a. disease ancestry things inevitably find out that they are the 60 because i'm of ronald reagan or mark twain or somebody but they hand as you mentioned earlier turn up helps trace tell you if your intended is a distant cousin the feel as though this is a biological compatibility breakthrough or are we entering toward a less romantic test future. i don't see it as designer babies or

a test to future i think that this information is the future personalized medicine and if used correctly it can be very helpful for people to know i don't think it's 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 you're 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 i'd also say the fact that you can now take something like a 23 and me and look at that list of carrier traits and show that to someone that's so powerful wouldn't you rather have that health knowledge now find out later on i certainly would well who else is seeing it is another question fearing big brother artie's resident privacy hawk lionel warns against doing ancestry dot com for 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 i'm not going to do it i'm very against it because of privacy reasons well if your brother did it or your sister did it you're already in the system that's the unfortunate part of d.n.a. testing that people don't realize so 2 if any of your family members are doing it you're 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 that's a valid concern kristin ruby ruby media group dot com thanks again for stepping into the big picture thanks for having me now let's welcome back the author of among other books the power of off the mind full way to stay sane in the virtual world nancy color 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 wouldn't ringback say trivialized but they've made dating in any kind of long term way more difficult i would say they've made it easier to meet people but the problem is because we feel like we have and bliss options you know you come home from a great date but you know i could get on and maybe see someone better right they make us less willing to work with the real hard parts of relationship to get this but maybe not to get that right now we live in a culture and online community supports this that you should get to have everything so they created an environment where the reality

of relationships is not acceptable anymore and that makes it for on for 2 or 3 days and then onward so that's if you call that trivialize yes maybe trivial but actually take the meaning out of relationships take the work out of it you know we know that's not working for people creating long term relationship you know we constantly choosing mr or ms perfect like blue christmas is valentine's day i'm anxious time for singletons does it have to be. boy is it an anxious time for singletons i work with a lot of people that are not married or not in relationships and there is such a sense that we should be coupled there is such a sense that there's something wrong with us if we're not and that

somehow being in a relationship is the magic bullet it's conditioned into us male and female from the time we're born and then comes you know jet mid january and rite aid into a reader you know. pushing that everywhere we look and the feeling of inadequacy the feeling of i'm missing something i'm not wholly without my other half without you complete me right is ramped it and it creates a lot of suffering for people that are single we've forgotten in a sense holland that our own company is company you know we start to feel like these empty empty vessels these voids if we don't have another there and there's something very flawed about that whole way of of seeing the

relationship relationship is a wonderful addition i've i've been married 20 years it's a wonderful addition to your life but the idea that someone will save us or someone will complete us these are recipes for for disaster that's why the divorce rate is like that but valentine's day is a time where people feel they should have something that often they don't it's interesting you bring up the drugstore i was walking through c.v.s. today and mammoth greeting card rock would be quite a gauntlet to run if you felt conspicuously single flowers and chocolates and greeting cards are convenient to the sender but nancy what is the more thoughtful gesture for your valentine. well you know the way people feel when they get the chocolate or they get the candle sticks with hearts on them or whatever it is. they feel 7 often and this is not everyone but not really known they feel 0 one

gesture was made but maybe it doesn't have much to do with me and what i hear in my office as a couples therapist day in and day out is that people want to feel known they want to be listen to they want someone's full attention and so deciding that i'm going to give my partner my full attention would be the best gift that most people could receive that i'm not going to be distracted that i am going to remember what you've told me for an evening we might ask the person you know i can get you chocolates or the or what have you a teddy bear but what you really like would you like us to spend some quality time together would you like to take a walk and really pay attention to each other these are the sorts of things that

move people that feel connected running out to get a box from duane reed that you know 7 before your date right is it a lovely gesture and i think we can do more yeah a clever greeting card would make somebody chuckle but imagine a thoughtful handwritten note. we have only got a minute so a question this profound b.b. unfair but your psychotherapy has to deal with a lot in relationships what makes a relationship work. while. save the best one for the good and i'm asking for the twitter length version. wow that's a tricky one i would come back to this idea of attention and empathy when we really genuinely have empathy for our partner and are on our partner's side and willing to see our partner through their eyes through their experience when we don't see our

partner as just something that to that takes care of our holes that fills our holes but we really want to know one other person and know life through their eyes and want to listen and be attentive to them author psycho therapist and relationship coach nancy collier i always love having you on the show you're so thoughtful and i always grin after the program thanks again for joining us my pleasure thanks. and thank you for watching the big picture if your cable company doesn't have r t america cut the cord we're live at youtube dot com slash r t america direct t.v. we're channel 321 on pluto t.v. we are 279 you got the dish dish 280 there and all of our shows are available anytime anywhere on our to use new portable t.v. it's free in the app store or google play and we are on demand that you tube dot

com slash the big picture r m holland cook in washington and add holland cook on twitter where if you follow me i'll follow you question more. in london julian assange standing trial on whether he will be extradited to the u. . to face espionage charges the stakes could not be higher saunders liberty even life is on the line freedom of speech is also on trial though you would no doubt to mainstream media. in his community there are people who believe that it's ok. it's really hard there

are no jobs and you see the kids that ask and as a parent. i can come up with arguments and there's a lot of conflict within the game and between the 2 things most of the conflict i would say overall is around money and most of them money is made. close one on each other and it's mostly known each other is good business the state of california alone makes $6000000000.00 a year of the prison complex just to get some 20 alive where. you don't care anymore nobody cares about you so you don't care might anything. well if you can't win every single time eventually some workers have to participate in the american economy the american economy is not just buying for kleptocrats it's not buying for terrorist like every time there's labor involved people who work with people or families or values or merican history that like a state that has to be respected at some point you simply can't throw the keys to

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