President Trump found an unlikely ally in his complaint that Google banned hundreds of his 2016 campaign ads recently when 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl pressed the social media giant to explain why.
When Stahl asked YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, if her company had taken down any of President Trump’s ads Wojcicki replied, “There are ads of President Trump that were not approved to run on Google or YouTube.” When pressed for an example, she added, “Well, they’re available in our transparency report.”
60 Minutes confirmed Trump’s assertion of being blackballed by Google owned YouTube by reporting:
60 Minutes reviewed the archive to learn more about President Trump’s problematic political ads. We found that over 300 video ads were taken down by Google and YouTube.
When Stahl asked Wojcicki about Google’s nebulous reason those ads “violate company policy,” the YouTube exec had no real answer.
Stahl asked, “Was it copyright violation? A lie or extreme inaccuracy? Faulty grammar? Bad punctuation?” She added that Google’s “transparency report,” on the matter was unclear. Instead, the CBS journalist observed:
We found very little transparency in the transparency report.
60 Minutes is right — Google has no acceptable answer for why it sees itself as an arbiter of politically acceptable speech.
Watch the video and find learn why Tim Pool says both the left and the right will regret the day Big Tech wasn’t held accountable for suppressing free speech.
