If you weren’t aware of ProPublica, it is an investigative media operation that describes itself as an independent organization that believes in “Journalism in the Public Interest.”

Fair enough, but the organization recently entered into an election coverage arrangement with none other than Google, putting its self-described independence in question.

As noted here, the joint project is between ProPublica and Google NewsLab. Called, “Election DataBot,” the site describes itself as a one-stop shop for political news stories.

“There are a thousand stories in every political campaign. Use this to find them,” says the site.

Under a heading titled, “The Firehose,” visitors are informed that stories and other campaign information are updated in real time and then searchable.

Another section, “Electionland,” found here, allows journalists covering voting to sign up “to find out more about how you can get tips about voting problems in your area.” Voters can also sign up to “be involved” with the project.

Sounds simple enough and on the up-and-up, right? There’s just one problem. Nothing having to do with Google News and media is independent and unbiased. Let’s look at the evidence.

First, Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, says he’s backing Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Clinton herself hired a longtime Google executive, Stephanie Hannon, in April 2015 to oversee her campaign’s technology development and outreach.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange revealed in December 2014 that if she ran, multiple Google executives would back her, apparently regardless of who the Republican candidate was eventually going to be.

“It should be noted that the ties [of Google] with Hillary Clinton are especially strong,” Assange said. “Many of those employed by Google have previously worked as her advisers or assistants.”

Google execs conspired with Clinton in 2012, when she was still secretary of state, to work with Syrian rebels who sought to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad.

Then there is Google News’ extremely slanted aggregate coverage of news having to do with Clinton. As noted by Breitbart News, the search engine portion of Google’s operations were caught skewing – as in, covering up – results to her advantage.

That came after a Breitbart News report earlier that noted that Google was directly involved with her campaign.

ProPublica claims to be an independent news organization interested only in presenting unbiased facts to the general public. It should be obvious by this election coverage partnership with Google that the organization has no intention of remaining neutral.

Sources:

Money.CNN.com

WashingtonPost.com

HangTheBankers.com

Breitbart.com

Breitbart.com

NewsTarget.com