“We’d be breaching precedent”: Leaked emails show Google workers discussing search tweaks
The emails are likely to stoke perceptions of anti-conservative bias within Google’s ranks.
In an email thread obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Google employees discussed ways that they could tweak search functions to affect results related to President Trump’s controversial 2017 travel ban. The employees, at least one of whom worked in search product marketing, sought to leverage Google search to highlight pro-immigration organizations and links to donate to, for instance, the ACLU. The thread contained a number of competing ideas and also some cautionary notes from employees who seemed uncomfortable with the notion of highlighting some groups over others.