Mike Benz Breaks Down How Google is a "Shadow State Department" (Part 3)
November 6, 2025
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Mike Benz describes Google as a "shadow State Department," explaining how the tech giant’s origins and operations intertwine with US intelligence and foreign policy. Benz traces Google’s founding to a CIA- and NSA-backed DARPA project aimed at monitoring global political trends through internet search data. This deep government link has shaped Google’s evolution into a major player in surveillance and information control.
Benz highlights how, by 2016, Google, influenced by former State Department insider Jared Cohen, developed sophisticated AI tools like the Perspective API to moderate and censor politically sensitive content, including the COVID-19 narrative. Over 100 million videos challenging official COVID information were reportedly blacklisted or throttled on YouTube, a Google subsidiary. While acknowledging the dangers of misinformation, Benz warns that such censorship risks backfiring, fueling conspiracy beliefs, and enabling state overreach. He stresses the importance of balancing free expression with public safety, cautioning against unchecked digital control becoming a tool for political manipulation worldwide.
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