Google's Shadow Algorithm: The Search Results They Hide | James O'Keefe Part 2 DSH #1010
Learn about shocking revelations from Google whistleblower Zachary Voorhees, who exposed the tech giant's machine learning algorithms and their impact on search results. O'Keefe shares concrete examples of search manipulation and discusses internal Google statements about controlling information.
But that's not all - this packed conversation covers groundbreaking investigations into major institutions including Disney, Border Patrol, ActBlue, and more. O'Keefe discusses his documentary "Line in the Sand," whistleblower protection efforts, and his experiences facing pushback from powerful organizations.
π― From exposing national security leaks to uncovering corporate secrets, this interview reveals the hidden mechanisms controlling what information reaches the public. Hear firsthand accounts of investigative journalism that's making waves and holding powerful institutions accountable.
Watch as O'Keefe shares his fearless approach to journalism, discusses his legal battles, and explains why speaking truth to power matters more than ever. π¨
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:36 - Line in the Sand
02:39 - Biden Expose
05:38 - Google Expose
06:38 - ActBlue Expose
07:23 - FBI Raid
09:47 - Elon Musk Buying X
10:59 - Bill Gates Insights
11:41 - Documentaries Overview
12:21 - Where to Find James
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I mean, I'm sure other countries have sent spies and gotten information.
And we don't know it.
And with me, I'm a reporter, so I publish it, but I said to the guy confronting him on this week, I said, you're lucky I'm not a Chinese spy.
What was his response?
He was mute.
They run away.
Usually they park the car like way far away, so it was a long time.
I love it.
I know how you filmed that part, too.
All right, guys, we got James here.
He just did 20 pull-ups.
Right over there.
With Wearing this freaking thing, it's like 20 pounds.
It's like a weighted vest.
It's a weighted vest right there.
Yeah, well done, man.
And you just had four whistleblowers on stage with you.
Yes.
What were they talking about?
So there was two border patrol agents, one Disney, one FEMA.
And these are people who are witness to, for example, children being trafficked or FEMA not doing their jobs.
The Disney guy, children being transitioned.
to a different gender and they are very brave people on stage with me and we're announcing this program we're going to defend them, pay their legal bills, and support them when they speak the truth.
Wow.
So the two border ones, is the government going after them?
Yes.
Well, they are, but there's a new administration coming January 20th.
So hopefully that'll change.
Yeah.
And Line in the Sand just came out.
Congratulations.
Line in the Sand, I'm very proud of the film with Tucker Carlson.
It was really a special movie because it was a documentary, but it was not really like any documentary everyone's ever seen.
It shows versus tells.
It takes you there.
I go to Mexico.
I follow them on the train, train, all illegal immigrants all the way to Los Angeles, New York City, where the fraud is being perpetrated, and in Texas, where they have the NGOs that house all the unaccompanied children.
Yeah.
How much did it cost to get across the border?
Oh,
so me personally, I didn't cross the border, but about $10,000 for many of the people that we put cameras on.
And
it could range.
It could be from $1,500.
to $30,000 for some of the Chinese illegal immigrants.
Wow.
And that's the Mexican border, right?
Yes.
I wonder if that's going on in Canada, too.
It is.
Zachary Apotheker, one of the Borbatro agents stationed in Vermont on the Canadian border.
I did not realize how porous it was there, but a lot of people sneaking into Vermont from Quebec.
Really?
I did not know that.
That's not really being covered too much in the mainstream.
No, it's not.
And Zachary, in the end of the film, if you haven't seen Line of the Sand, it's very powerful.
He's in his patrol car on the Canadian border, just crying because he's so frustrated by
the cover-ups of children getting raped.
Right.
And he speaks publicly.
You're not supposed to speak publicly when you're in your patrol car.
He does so.
They took his gun and his badge away for speaking out.
Damn.
I also saw you recently expose Biden.
Someone was talking about how he was pretty much declining mentally.
An advisor to the National Security Council in the White House was caught on one of my hidden cameras on a date, spilling all this information while Biden can't complete a sentence.
That may not be that shocking, but he said it's worse than we think.
And further, the guy works for the National Security Council, which is like high-level.
And he's just blabbing in a restaurant.
And it begs the question, what type of people do we have working in the intelligence community?
That's stupid.
It's the worst espionage ever to be out there and just telling, what if I was a Chinese spy?
Right.
And I think that was the real big headline of that story.
I mean, I'm sure other countries have sent spies and gotten information.
And we don't know it.
And with me, I'm a reporter, so I publish it.
But I said to the guy confronting him on uh this week i said you're lucky i'm not a chinese spy right what was his response he was mute they he they run away and uh usually they park the car like way far away so it was a long i love how you filmed that part too
you questioned them on the way out yes i was wearing a tuxedo because i was coming from an event and uh it was a long walk yeah you're good at lining up those dates man yes well done here with uh smooth talker yeah and you know you just got to talk about them you got to express interest in them and people will people confess their secrets yeah i loved your investigation into disney by the way disney over the summer and uh the the guy here from disney was one of the guys inside the company that gave us the intel and they fired him and we just gave him a hundred thousand dollar check to support wow well done man well done disney just removed a transgender scene i don't know if you saw this from one of their movies i did not know that yeah it happened recently there was a scene about transitioning and uh it got removed i didn't know which which do you know what movie it was i don't we'll have to link it below but yeah i think you played a a role in that.
Well, and people said, don't go after Disney.
They're too powerful.
And I don't know.
I think the public will respect me more if I don't show favor or lack of favor for this or that.
If you're doing something wrong, you're trying to hide it, I'll expose you.
Yeah, that's what I love about you.
You're not scared of any company.
I mean,
I was in L.A.
making this film in post-production, and everyone's like, don't go after Disney, don't go after Disney.
And there were conversations that people said, don't go after Disney.
And I said, no, I'm not going to not go after, if it hurts, you know, it'd be worse for me if I took that advice.
Yeah.
I mean, you went after Google.
You went after a lot of big companies.
BlackRock, Pfizer, the FBI, Disney,
the cartel is in the film.
That was a little terrifying.
The most powerful enemies in the world.
Yes.
And you have the back of the people and you're the enemy.
As you know, I was terminated from my own creation.
I was fired from Prashik Veritas.
The institution I created.
In many regards, do this type of work is it runs contrary to being part of an institution.
You kind of have to be a maverick.
You have to be an outsider to do this.
Yeah, insane.
What did you find out at Google?
I did many stories on Google.
I think the one that comes to mind is Zachary Voorhees exposed Google's machine learning algorithms about fairness.
And if the information is unfair, they'll change the search results to make it fair.
You saw that with the Trump episode.
Whatever that means.
I mean, that's like science fiction stuff.
I mean,
what do you mean information is fair?
I think you want true information.
So that was a really interesting one.
I mean, you saw with the Trump Rogan episode.
You couldn't search it on Google.
Well, there you go.
It didn't pop up.
That's an example.
And certain topics are still shadow banned to this day.
Yes.
And I mean, and
that's definitely an example.
It's a circumstantial example.
And you got to go into the code and get the damning.
There was one quote we got from Jen Janai at Google who said, we have to quote, this is in
2019.
She said, we have to prevent the next next Trump situation.
She was saying we got to prevent Trump from winning the election.
So to have them say it, to have the code that shows it, that's what you need.
Yeah.
Act Blue was a big expose you did as well.
In 2023 and 24, we exposed FEC donations to Act Blue.
Very curious that there were people that were in poverty donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to Act Blue.
Do you think campaign financing laws should be changed?
Because there's certain parties raising way more than others.
I think the Federal Election Commission needs to investigate that situation.
I don't know.
I never got to the bottom of why that was happening.
Was it money laundering from a foreign country?
Was it something to do with Stripe and the payment processor?
Was it a glitch on the FEC website?
We never got the answer.
It's remarkable how few people were curious, except for the people, not the institutions.
They didn't care.
Right.
So we're not yet, we haven't found the truth on that one.
FBI still has your phones.
Yeah, I was raided three and a half years ago.
They sold my devices.
i mean i can get them back but they probably put all type of spyware on there so i don't know if i want them yeah i wouldn't want those back in principle i should have them back yeah three and a half years and you've probably made numerous requests and they're just being
i've spent millions on legal fees and
motions and
they raided me and they still they could still indict me i don't think they will um the aclu is defending me And it was definitely a chilling effect.
You want to talk about chilling effect on the press?
Yeah.
To raid a journalist's house, that's the greatest chilling effect ever.
And perhaps one of the most venal sins to do it to a reporter because you're chilling out all the sources to come forward.
It was really despicable and traumatizing.
Absolutely.
Did they ever tell you what story that caused that?
Yeah, it was the Ashley Biden diary, the daughter of the private.
Mr.
Biden?
Ashley, his sister has a diary, and someone provided it to me, and I looked into it, never published it.
They raided me anyway.
Wow.
That's nuts, man.
I hope you beat that case, dude.
I'll be sorry.
I hope I do more than beat it.
I hope the people who do this go to jail.
Yeah.
Because it's illegal.
The Attorney General of the United States, Mary Garland, expressly forbids force against news reporters, and they just broke their own law.
Yeah.
And that's why the laws don't really matter.
It's who's the one enforcing them.
Well, Christopher resigned, so.
I think we have a change of momentum or the pendulum is shifting here for a little while for sure.
Absolutely.
You posted on X that you believe Edward Snowden should be pardoned.
I do.
I do as well.
I think Trump can make a big decision with that one.
Do you think he'll do it?
Do I think he'll do it?
I don't know.
I don't know about predicting whether he will do it.
I think he should do it.
And I think what he uncovered with spying on people is,
you know, sometimes that's what you have to do.
Sometimes you just have to do things that are uncouth or
not necessarily legal if you're a whistleblower doing it.
You have to do it because we are predicated as a country on the public's right to know information.
That is what if you want to live in a different country where you are abiding by a different set of values, but America is based on
the consent of the governed.
And therefore, the public must know things like that.
Therefore, I think you should be pardoned.
Absolutely.
Elon Musk buying X, was that the savior of social media, in your opinion?
I think it was the greatest thing that ever happened to the First Amendment in the history of Western civilization.
I think it was massive for someone like you because you could actually share your stories.
Like literally weeks after I was banned on Twitter
and then weeks before I broke that Pfizer story, Elon put me back on.
Wow.
So but not for Elon Musk, I don't think that any of that would happen.
And,
you know, I've been fighting these people most of my life.
I've been doing this since I was in college, so 20 years.
And embattled and underdog and constantly under.
So it does feel weird to have the
culture, the climate that we're in right now.
Yeah.
We went to the same college, by the way.
Is that right?
Rutgers.
I think I remember you telling me that.
Yeah.
What year did you you graduate?
I did not graduate.
More power to you.
Yeah, I started in 2015.
Okay.
Made it a year.
Well, Ruckers, New Brunswick?
Yeah.
Okay.
Of course.
New Brunswick.
Is that where you're from?
I'm from New Jersey, yeah.
Bridgewater.
I'm from Bergen County.
Let's go.
Yeah, let's go.
Jersey people work hard, man.
Jersey people, they're loyal.
Jersey people are, you know.
Special people.
They are.
Jersey Shore painted us in a bad light.
I don't even know.
I think all those people are from like New York, Binghamton or something.
They weren't even from New Jersey.
When When are you investigating Bill Gates?
Because that's needed.
You know, I can't comment on things I'm doing at the moment, but in late January, I got something coming up.
I love it, dude.
I love it.
You probably get pulled in so many directions.
There's too many.
And that's why you have to be careful with your time because everyone's got a story to tell.
But it really comes down to the evidence that you're showing, not just the testimony, but the evidence.
Yeah.
What do you think of all the drone stuff happening in Jersey in New York?
I don't have a comment because I don't know.
I don't like to speculate.
And I'd have to speculate.
I haven't looked into that.
I don't know.
I like that.
People could have made up an answer.
I don't know.
I try to only say things I know.
So we'll see.
Yeah.
Any documentaries you're working on next, though?
Well, I'm trying to get Line of the Sand widely distributed.
Right now it's on Tucker.
Yeah.
And I'm working on maybe theaters, maybe.
Nice.
Because I really think it's a really important and seminal work for me.
It was really, really hard to make and a very unusual film.
That's going to be a tough battle because what they did to that one movie,
the child trafficking one, I forget the name.
It was a couple of years ago.
Sounds like
they blocked it in a lot of theaters, right?
I think things are changing in
the market economy.
I think that's going to change.
I think people want to see this sort of thing.
That's good, man.
Well, I can't wait to keep up with you.
Where can people keep up with up to date with what you're up to?
I mean, I'm James O'Keefe, III.
James O'Keefe, III on Instagram, X, Facebook.
O'KeeffeMediaGroup.com is my company.
Citizen Journalism Foundation is my nonprofit.
And I'm here at AmFest.
And tonight we're having a party called Make America Rave Again.
And you're coming.
I'm coming.
We're going to rave, guys.
All right.
Let's go.
Boom.