Speaking to the "New Era of Journalism: Farewell to Mainstream" symposium, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange stated Google is "directly engaged" with the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.
Assange said, "The chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, set up a company to run the digital component of Hillary Clinton's campaign."
As reported by Quartz in late 2015, an under-the-radar startup known as "The Groundwork" was funded by Schmidt "to ensure that Clinton has the engineering talent needed to win the election."
Assange went on to say that "[...] once Hillary Clinton becomes president, those people in Google,
like Jared Cohen, will be placed into positions around the new Clinton presidency."
Controlling the majority of the world's smart phones, Assange adds, raises even more serious concerns in light of the company's growing and monopolistic influence.
"Google controls 80 percent of the smart phone market through its control of Android and if you control the device itself -- that people use to read -- then anything that they connect to through that device you have control over as well. [...]
Google has gotten into bed with the Obama administration in a very significant way," Assange stated.
"It is the company that visits the White House more than any other -- averaged once per week in the last 4 years."
Here’s a recap of what went down on this busy election night:
- Sanders vowed to stay in the race and bring his fight to the convention in Philadelphia.
- Clinton celebrated an historic milestone when she declared herself the first woman to lead a major party’s bid for the White House.
- Counting continues in California, where Clinton has a significant lead.
- Sanders won Montana, and Clinton won New Jersey and New Mexico.
- Sanders won North Dakota and Clinton won South Dakota – a clear illustration of how the Vermont senator performs better with caucuses.
- Donald Trump won all the GOP contests of the night and urged Sanders fans to back his campaign.
- Sanders and Obama announced plans to meet on Thursday.
- And here’s our wrap-up from the night
Sanders stays in the race
Sanders in Santa Monica:He added, “We will continue to fight for every vote and every delegate.”Next Tuesday, we continue the fight. ... We are going to fight hard to win the primary in Washington DC. And then we take our fight for social, economic, racial and environmental justice to Philadelphia.”
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