Google executive Jen Gennai tried to clarify what she meant in a leaked video from Project Veritas which showed her implying Google would try to stop President Trump from being elected in 2020.
“I was having a casual chat with someone at a restaurant and used some imprecise language. Project Veritas got me. Well done,” Gennai said in a Medium post on Monday.
Gennai claimed despite what it appeared in the video, she was not involved with any of the projects she mentioned in it.
“But despite what the video may have you believe, I’m not involved in any of these products, just like I’m not involved in any of the other topics Project Veritas baited me into discussing,” she said.
“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,” Gennai said in the video published by Project Veritas.
BREAKING @Project_Veritas: Insider Blows Whistle & Exec Reveals Google Plan to Prevent “Trump situation” in 2020 on Hidden Cam — FULL VIDEO AND BACKUP: https://t.co/8DWus8E4ia pic.twitter.com/XWD9JKcZ2C
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) June 24, 2019
Project Veritas published the video along with an email from a Google employee which referred to conservative commentators Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, and Denis Prager as Nazis.
“Today it is often 1 or 2 steps to Nazis, if we understand that PragerU, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro et al are Nazis using the dog whistles you mention in step 1. I can receive these recommendations regardless of the content of what I’m looking at, and I have recorded thousands of internet users sharing the same experience,” the email said.
Shapiro, Peterson, and Prager all ripped the email. Rep. Dan Crenshaw pointed out in a House Committee hearing Wednesday that Shapiro and Prager were both Jewish.
Hey, @SusanWojcicki, would love to discuss this with you. Do you think your employees should be cavalierly labeling those who militantly hate white supremacy “Nazis,” and then shaping algorithms on the basis of such lies? https://t.co/8zy72ZdWXI
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) June 25, 2019
Google opines so neutrally on Shapiro, Prager U and me https://t.co/eUoOn7mgXS
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) June 26, 2019
Is this what Google will look like in the future when someone tries to google information on @Prageru, @benshapiro, or @jordanbpeterson?
Stop Big Tech bias.
Sign the petition. ? https://t.co/R7QDrNLBJA pic.twitter.com/akKmd9SJpu
— PragerU (@prageru) June 25, 2019
Gennai is the head of the Responsible Innovation at Google.
