Wow, Twitter, Google and Facebook are burying the FBI criminal investigation of Clinton. Very dishonest media! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 1477837590000

Just met with @SundarPichai, President of @Google, who is obviously doing quite well. He stated strongly that he is… https://t.co/MkEveSi6u7 — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 1553715535000

....Also discussed political fairness and various things that @Google can do for our Country. Meeting ended very well! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 1553715535000

WASHINGTON: The profound distrust between pro-Trump right-wing forces and Silicon Valley liberals has surfaced again in the US with an undercover “expose” by a conservative political activist group of a Google executive pledging to “never letting somebody like Donald Trump come to power again”. In a secret recording released by Project Veritas, whose undercover busts, sometimes under false pretence and with doctored videos, is aimed at exposing liberal bias in the US media and academia, Google’s head of responsible innovation Jen Gennai is heard saying the company has been working diligently to “prevent” the results of the 2016 election from repeating in 2020.“We all got screwed over in 2016… again it wasn’t just us, it was, the people got screwed over, the news media got screwed over, like, everybody got screwed over so we’re rapidly been like, what happened there and how do we prevent it from happening again,” she says, adding, “We’re also training our algorithms, like, if 2016 happened again, would we have, would the outcome be different?” Project Veritas claims that the recording and other documents and insider accounts from Google shows that “they-’re not an objective source of information. They are a highly biased political machine that is bent on never letting somebody like @RealDonald-Trump come to power again”. Gennai says the activist outfit “selectively edited and spliced the video to distort my words and the actions of my employer” after she had been invited to a meeting under the false pretence of her hosts wanting to chat to her about a mentoring programme for young women of colour in tech, an area she is passionate about.“Project Veritas has edited the video to make it seem that I am a powerful executive who was confirming that Google is working to alter the 2020 election. On both counts, this is absolute, unadulterated nonsense, of course. In a casual restaurant setting, I was explaining how Google’s trust and safety team (a team I used to work on) is working to help prevent the types of online foreign interference that happened in 2016,” she explained in a post on Medium, adding, “Google has been very public about the work that our teams have done since 2016 on this, so it’s hardly a revelation.” She maintained that Google has no notion of political ideology in its rankings, citing company CEO Sundar Pichai ’s disclaimer that “we do not bias our products to favour any political agenda”.But the right-wing media and its leading commentators are going to town about Google’s allegedly liberal bias and its anti-Trump orientation, while drumming up fears that the 2020 elections could be manipulated. “Google Gearing up to Defeat Trump in 2020” warned one headline. Another read: “Google’s left-wing agenda revealed: Undercover video shows top exec pledging company would ‘stop the next Trump situation’ and exposes search giant’s secret plan for radical social engineering”. Trump himself has been leery of Google, Facebook, and other Silicon Valley giants, accusing them, among other things, of biased search results and favouring Democrats, although it is not a secret that the Bay Area, home to some of America’s storied tech firms — and more broadly California itself — is a Democratic redoubt.“Wow, Twitter, Google and Facebook are burying the FBI criminal investigation of Clinton. Very dishonest media!” Trump posted on Twitter in March this year (even though there was no FBI criminal investigation) in one of his many broadsides against the Silicon Valley elites.Pichai subsequently met Trump at the White House, following which the president tweeted, “I just met with Sundar Pichai, President of Google, who is obviously doing quite well... He stated strongly that he is totally committed to the U.S. Military, not the Chinese Military. [We] also discussed political fairness and various things that Google can do for our Country. Meeting ended very well!” Pichai, who is the CEO (not president) of Google, did not comment on the meeting or its outcome.