Blackout by Algorithms: Google, the Federal Reserve, and the Corbett Report

Gary North - August 10, 2019
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James Corbett is the most articulate "conspiracy historian" on the Web. He is a serious revisionist historian. I don't mean that he is an academic specialist churning out a monograph every five years, which then no one in academia reads. I mean he is a thoughtful, well-read producer of videos that survey important historical issues that are covered in history textbooks without detailed discussions of these issues, including: (1) earlier trends that made the events possible; (2) who put up the money; (3) the crucial goals of these groups; (4) how they got their message to the public; and (5) how they kept investigators (especially academic historians) from following the money and connecting the dots.

He writes cogent scripts. He posts them on the page with the video. These scripts include live links to supporting documentation. You can verify what he says in the video. He oversees the production of historical videos that are good mixtures of graphics, interviews, stock film footage, and still photos. They keep people's attention. They give you "the story behind the story," which is another word for revisionism.

He speaks forcefully on camera, but in a conversational tone. His daily videos are good examples of low-cost videos that are informative. He often does interviews with well-informed experts with off-beat views.

THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

In 2014, he released a two-hour video, Century of Enslavement: The History of the Federal Reserve. I have been studying this subject for over half a century. I regard this video as an exceptionally effective and accurate introduction to the subject. It targets intelligent citizens who want to understand the FED. He also includes the transcript with links, which I think every documentary producer should post. It is here. I suggest that you read the transcript. Then watch the video to appreciate its effectiveness as an educational tool.

There is a follow-up video, which includes a long interview with G. Edward Griffin, author of The Creature from Jekyll Island, which is the best introductory book on the FED.

With this as background, watch this video by conservative comedian Mark Dice. It was posted on August 5. Four days later, it had almost 300,000 hits. That is a lot of hits. The video tells the story of how Google manipulated the algorithm to block Corbett's long-posted video on the FED.

Google is the most visited website. YouTube is #2. Google owns YouTube.

According to a Breitbart report on this operation, Corbett's video had 1.6 million hits at the time (September 2018). That is staggering. So, I went to YouTube and searched for "Century of Enslavement." Corbett's video. It is here. YouTube now rates it as 10,400 hits. Something does not add up.

Lo and behold, there is another posting of this video. It has had 1.9 million hits. But when I initially used YouTube's own search engine to search for the video, I got the one with 10,400 hits. I found no trace of the other one.

So, I went back and tried again. The story gets curiouser and curiouser.

The reason why I was able to locate the version of the video with 1.9 million hits is because of the September 2008 Twitter link that was mentioned in the article on Breitbart.

Note: it took from September 2018 until July 31, 2019 for this story to be run on Breitbart. It is posted here. Google got away with it for a long time.

YouTube did not remove any of the posted versions of Corbett's report on the Federal Reserve. So, this was not the case of what could be called active, visible suppression. It is also a case of closing the barn door after the horses have escaped. It took four years for somebody to call attention to the video to the decision-makers at Google and YouTube, which means that the damage was already done.

CONCLUSION

Google is a private company. My view is that it gets to do whatever it wants with its algorithms. But the idea that the company is ideologically pure and neutral is clearly preposterous. This is why I am bringing this story to your attention. You might consider using duckduckgo.com as your search engine. It doesn't track you. It doesn't generate revenue from ads that are posted by its algorithm on the basis of your searching habits. Also, it does not list sites in the same order that Google does.

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