Project Veritas Google Document Dump / Google Whistleblower

Overview

Project Veritas Google Document Dump refers to a leak of documents published by Project Veritas which were reportedly obtained from former Google software engineer Zach Vorhies while he was employed by the tech company.

Background

On August 14th, 2019, Project Veritas^[1] released a video titled "Google 'Machine Learning Fairness' Whistleblower Goes Public" (shown below). In the video, Vorhies is unmasked as the "whistleblower" behind the June 24th "Google Insider Video", who discusses leaked documents he allegedly procured from Google, including blacklists^[6] for various websites to exclude from search results on certain platforms (shown below).

Developments

Online Reaction

That day, posts about Vorhies and the leak reached the front page of the /r/KotakuInAction^[4] and /r/The_Donald^[5] subreddits.

The Daily Beast Article

Also on August 14th, The Daily Beast^[3] published an article by reporter Will Sommer titled "James O’Keefe’s Google ‘Whistleblower’ Loves QAnon, Accused ‘Zionists’ of Running the Government," which cited social media posts by Vorhies in which he promotes conspiracy theories about "Zionists" controlling the United States government, QAnon and Pizzagate. Shortly after, Sommer tweeted screenshots of Vorhies' tweets, accusing him of removing "tweets attacking Jews and promoting Qanon" (shown below). Meanwhile, Project Veritas created a webpage containing the Google Documents titled "Google Document Dump." ^[2]

Search Interest

External References