An 675-word email reveals that a senior Google employee deployed the company's resources to increase voter turnout in ways she believed would help the Clinton campaign win the last election.
The email came from a woman named Eliana Murillo, the former head of Google's multi-cultural marketing department.
She sent the email on November 9th, 2016. That was one day after the presidential election. That email was subsequently forwarded by two Google vice presidents to more staff members throughout the company.
In her email Murillo touts Google's multi-faceted efforts to boost Hispanic turnout in the election. She knows that Latinos voted in record-breaking numbers especially in states like Florida, Nevada and Arizona, the last of which she describes as "A key state for us."
She brags that the company used its power to ensure that millions of people saw certain hashtags and social media impressions with the goal of influencing their behavior during the election.
Elsewhere in the email Murillo says "Google supported partners like Voto Latino to pay for rides to the polls in key states." She describes this assistance as "A silent donation."
Murillo then says that Google helped Voto Latino create ad campaigns to promote those rides.
Now officially, Voto Latino is a non-partisan entity but that is a sham. Voto Latino is vocally partisan.
Recently, the group declared that Hispanics, all Hispanics, are in President Trump's "Crosshairs." They said they plan to respond to this by registering another million additional Hispanic voters in the next presidential cycle.
At the end of her email, Murillo makes it clear that Google was working to get Hillary Clinton elected. This wasn't a "get out the vote" effort, whatever they say. It was not aimed at all potential voters. It wasn't even aimed at a balanced cross-section of subgroups. Google didn't try to get out the vote among say Christian Arabs in Michigan or Persian Jews in Los Angeles. -- They sometimes vote Republican.
It was aimed only at one group, a group that Google cynically assumed would vote exclusively for the Democratic Party.
In the end, Google was disappointed as Murillo herself conceded:
"Ultimately, after all was said and done, the Latino community did come out to vote and completely surprised us. We never anticipated that 29 percent of Latinos would vote for Trump. No one did. If you see a Latino Googler in the office please give them a smile. They are probably hurting right now. You can rest assured that the Latinos of these blue states need your thoughts and prayers for them and their families. I had planned a vacation and thought I would be taking the time to celebrate. Now, it will be time to reflect on how to continue to support my community through these difficult times."
Google did not deny that the 675-word email was real or that it showed a clear political preference.
The email came from a woman named Eliana Murillo, the former head of Google's multi-cultural marketing department.
She sent the email on November 9th, 2016. That was one day after the presidential election. That email was subsequently forwarded by two Google vice presidents to more staff members throughout the company.
In her email Murillo touts Google's multi-faceted efforts to boost Hispanic turnout in the election. She knows that Latinos voted in record-breaking numbers especially in states like Florida, Nevada and Arizona, the last of which she describes as "A key state for us."
She brags that the company used its power to ensure that millions of people saw certain hashtags and social media impressions with the goal of influencing their behavior during the election.
Elsewhere in the email Murillo says "Google supported partners like Voto Latino to pay for rides to the polls in key states." She describes this assistance as "A silent donation."
Murillo then says that Google helped Voto Latino create ad campaigns to promote those rides.
Now officially, Voto Latino is a non-partisan entity but that is a sham. Voto Latino is vocally partisan.
Recently, the group declared that Hispanics, all Hispanics, are in President Trump's "Crosshairs." They said they plan to respond to this by registering another million additional Hispanic voters in the next presidential cycle.
At the end of her email, Murillo makes it clear that Google was working to get Hillary Clinton elected. This wasn't a "get out the vote" effort, whatever they say. It was not aimed at all potential voters. It wasn't even aimed at a balanced cross-section of subgroups. Google didn't try to get out the vote among say Christian Arabs in Michigan or Persian Jews in Los Angeles. -- They sometimes vote Republican.
It was aimed only at one group, a group that Google cynically assumed would vote exclusively for the Democratic Party.
In the end, Google was disappointed as Murillo herself conceded:
"Ultimately, after all was said and done, the Latino community did come out to vote and completely surprised us. We never anticipated that 29 percent of Latinos would vote for Trump. No one did. If you see a Latino Googler in the office please give them a smile. They are probably hurting right now. You can rest assured that the Latinos of these blue states need your thoughts and prayers for them and their families. I had planned a vacation and thought I would be taking the time to celebrate. Now, it will be time to reflect on how to continue to support my community through these difficult times."
Google did not deny that the 675-word email was real or that it showed a clear political preference.
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