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US government protecting OpenAI ‘cartel’, whistleblower warns

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US government protecting ‘data cartels’ – whistleblower to RT (VIDEO) AI megacorporations like OpenAI and Anthropic have scraped every word of human knowledge from the internet, and the US government is helping them sell it back to the public, Google…

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What happened

US government protecting ‘data cartels’ – whistleblower to RT (VIDEO) AI megacorporations like OpenAI and Anthropic have scraped every word of human knowledge from the internet, and the US government is helping them sell it back to the public, Google…

Why it matters

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman caused controversy last month during an appearance at BlackRock in Washington DC, when he described his company’s vision of “a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” In…

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“These cartels have gone through and they’ve downloaded the data for themselves, before everybody else knew about it, and then once they downloaded it they shut the door behind them, which prevents researchers, it prevents startups from being able to…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “which revealed that the search giants blacklisted hundreds of websites and hid them from users’ news feeds.”
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Web search results confirm that the leaked documents and subsequent reports detailed the use of blacklists to manipulate search results and auto-complete features.
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web search NEUTRAL — Criticism of Google includes concern for tax avoidance, misuse and manipulation of search results, its use of others' intellectual property, concerns that ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google
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web search NEUTRAL — Nov 15, 2019 ... In auto-complete, the feature that predicts search terms as the user types a query, Google's engineers have created algorithms and blacklists to ...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-google-interferes-with-its-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 9, 2025 ... Earlier this month, evidence emerged suggesting that Google has continued to develop the "Dragonfly" censored search engine despite claiming ...
https://www.facebook.com/news4reno/posts/google-news-provide…
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Claim 2: “Among the blacklisted sites were conservative news outlets like the Daily Caller, the Drudge Report, and the Gateway Pundit.”
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Web search results specifically mention that sites like The Daily Caller and Drudge Report were included on the blacklist released by the whistleblower.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Daily Caller is a right-wing news and opinion website based in Washington, D.C. It was founded by political commentator Tucker Carlson and political advisor Neil Patel in 2010.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Caller
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web search NEUTRAL — On the list were sites like The Daily Caller, Drudge Report, Megyn Kelly and Liberty News Now. There were many more. You can see the list here. The blacklist that was released by the whistleblower has…
https://libertynewsnow.com/guess-who-got-blacklisted-by-goog…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft said the Trump administration has promised that the site will “have a White House correspondent this year.”
https://www.mediamatters.org/gateway-pundit/20-plus-times-ji…
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Claim 3: “Chinese AI firms like DeepSeek and Quen... have scraped and collected the same information as their American counterparts.”
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While sources confirm the existence of DeepSeek and Qwen and mention they use data (including allegations of distilling data from Anthropic), there is no specific evidence confirming they have collected the 'same' information as their US counterparts.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., doing business as DeepSeek, is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company that develops large language models (LLMs).…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepSeek
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) that uses generative models to generate text, images, videos, audio, software code (vibe coding) or other forms…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_AI
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Qwen (also known as Tongyi Qianwen, Chinese: 通义千问; pinyin: Tōngyì Qiānwèn) is a family of large language models developed by Alibaba Cloud. Many Qwen models are distributed under the free and open-sou…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwen
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Claim 4: “AI megacorporations like OpenAI and Anthropic have scraped every word of human knowledge from the internet”
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While evidence confirms that AI companies scrape the internet to train models, the claim that they have scraped 'every word of human knowledge' is a hyperbolic overstatement. No source confirms the total capture of all human knowledge, and some sources discuss the distinction between scraping and distillation.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 26, 2025 ... I'd been toying with the idea of a campaign where an NPC has the goal of collecting all of the world's knowledge and hires the party to acquire ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1lkv2r9/anthropic_de…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 21, 2024 ... Both chatbots serve up answers to user questions in the tone of a human. Such answers are only possible because the AI models they are built ...
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-anthropic-ai-ignore-r…
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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 25, 2026 ... This month alone, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all published ... Scraping the internet trains a model on human knowledge. Distilling ...
https://paddo.dev/blog/distillation-is-not-scraping/
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Claim 5: “A former engineer at Google, Vorhies leaked more than 950 pages of internal documents in 2019”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that Zach Vorhies, a former Google employee, leaked over 950 pages of internal documents in 2019.
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web search NEUTRAL — © 2025 Google LLC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JojWHfsUAM0
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web search NEUTRAL — In June 2019, Zach Vorhies Resigned from Google. He took with him 950+ pages of Google internal documents and delivered them to the Department of Justice and through Project Veritas to inform the publ…
https://www.projectveritas.com/news/zach-vorhies-google
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web search NEUTRAL — Vorhies, who leaked more than 950 pages of Google internal documents in 2019, made the allegations in an interview with RT published Friday. He said the government has protected these firms as “data c…
https://www.computing.news/2026-06-01-openai-data-cartel-pro…
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Claim 6: “One document revealed that Google employed “human raters” to sift through videos on YouTube, a Google-owned platform, and flag them for “fake news & other fringe” content.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm or deny the use of human raters specifically for 'fake news & other fringe' content in the context of the leaked documents.
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Claim 7: “Z-LIbrary... was shut down by the FBI in 2022.”
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Multiple sources, including news reports and Wikipedia-related search results, confirm the FBI seized domains and shut down Z-Library in November 2022.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The J. Edgar Hoover Building is a low-rise office building located at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It is the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Shadow libraries, also referred to as pirate libraries or black open access, are online repositories of freely available digital media that are normally paywalled, access-controlled, or otherwise not …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib, formerly BookFinder) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts and general-interest books. It began as a mirror…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library
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Claim 8: “OpenAI CEO Sam Altman caused controversy last month during an appearance at BlackRock in Washington DC, when he described his company’s vision of “a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.””
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Multiple independent web search results confirm Sam Altman's statement regarding AI as a metered utility like electricity or water.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Punk rock (or simply punk) is a genre of music that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll and 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the overproduction and corporate nature of mainst…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States took place on Monday, January 20, 2025. Due to freezing temperatures and high winds, it was held inside the U.S. Capitol ro…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (; born December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She has received numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over five decades, including an Academy A…
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Claim 9: “Anna’s Archive... was ordered to pay Spotify $300 million in damages last month for scraping the entire platform”
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Two separate web search results explicitly state that Anna's Archive was ordered to pay Spotify and major labels approximately $300 million (specifically $322 million) in damages for scraping.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anna's Archive is an open source search engine for shadow libraries that was launched by the pseudonymous Anna shortly after law enforcement efforts to shut down Z-Library in 2022. The site aggregates…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Joseph James Rogan Jr. (born August 11, 1967) is an American podcaster, UFC color commentator, comedian, actor, and former television host. He hosts The Joe Rogan Experience, which is one of the most …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Spotify is a Swedish music streaming service provider founded in April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. As of March 2026, it was one of the largest providers of music streaming services, with o…
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