Rep. Dan Crenshaw grilled Google executives after an employee reportedly labeled Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, and Dennis Prager as “Nazis.”
“Two of three of these people are Jewish, very religious Jews. And yet you think they are Nazis,” the Texas congressman said in reference to Shapiro and Prager. “It begs the question, ‘What kind of education do people at Google have?'”
“Three of three of these people had family members killed in the Holocaust. Ben Shapiro is the number target of the alt-right, and yet you people operate off the premise that he is a Nazi. It’s pretty disturbing,” Crenshaw added.
Crenshaw’s comments were in response to an internal Google email that was leaked to Project Veritas, which claimed that Shapiro, Peterson, and Prager used Nazi “dog whistles.”
“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.
“I don’t think correctly identifying far-right content is beyond our capabilities. But if it is, why not go with Meredith’s suggestion of disabling the suggestions feature? This could be a significant step in terms of user trust,” the email continued.
Shapiro, Peterson, and Prager all condemned Google over the email.
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
