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 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 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 missed 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 for 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. good to be on here thank 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 can 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 vandalised over and over and over again and more recently in the last 3 to 4 years there's been a lockdown installed a many 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 rearing to 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 see 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 as

you know should just to see 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 establishment media play. there's that we're in real

time changing and redirecting my searches to land in these what i consider propaganda articles and you know this just this doesn't just happen on you know a particular instance it happens pretty much every single day when people go in 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 i'm asleep 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 and evacuating my neighbors the stores in the theater around the street i've actually 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 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 danced 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 gets 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

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florists are 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 is commercialism creeping out the uncoupled let's ask kristin ruby 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. they to 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 spirits 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 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 you know 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 ourselves 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 d.n.a. 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 new family members that they didn't expect but there is also

something now where they're going to get surprises and you can 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 that's why these d.n.a. dating apps i think are so critical right now because they aim to prevent that d.n.a. doesn't lie when he will do it in a disease ancestry things in evidently find out that they're 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 entering toward a less romantic test to future. i don't see it as designer babies or a test tube 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 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 23 and me and look at that list of carrier traits and show that to someone that's so powerful right wouldn't 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 artie's 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. boards 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 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 collamer is a psycho therapist a popular speaker and a relationship coach nancy have social media and the 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 lists 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 dates 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 choose to 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 in anxious time for singletons i work with a lot of people that are not married or not in relationship 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. jet mid january and rite aid into

a new reader you know. pushing that everywhere we look and the feeling of inadequacy the feeling of i'm missing something i'm not whole 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 that 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 the way in read that you know 7 before your date right is 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 nancy i've 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. you save the best one for last. 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 we 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 a relationship coach nancy collier i always love having you on the show you're so thoughtful and i always groom 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 got directv we're channel 321 on pluto t.v. we are 279 you got the dish dish $80.00 there and all of our shows are available anytime anywhere on our teens new portable t.v. app it's free on the app store or google play and we are on demand that you tube dot com slash the big picture r t m holland cook in washington and then at holland cook on twitter where if you follow me i'll follow you question more.

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