Censorship/Surveillance — Google Censored Vaccine Info Long Before COVID — Could It Have Anything to Do With Parent Company Alphabet’s Deep Pharma Ties? Google’s parent company, Alphabet, admitted to Congress that the Biden administration pressured YouTube, owned by Google, to remove videos that didn’t even violate its content policies. Alphabet — which has deep ties to pharma — called the practice “unacceptable and wrong.” But it’s still happening. By Jeremy R. Hammond (11/19/25) Updated 11/22/25.

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We begin with our take on the issue, then offer a summary of the article so you know why we’re semi-ranting below.

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Our Take

If you believe Google and Facebook (and, yes, even X/Twitter) gave up their censoring ways or their pharma and other corporate ties after mea culpa tours and Congressional testimony blaming the Biden administration for forcing these companies to censor people, perhaps the above-linked article from Jeremy Hammond will change your mind.

The bottom line is that Google, Facebook, and their parent companies (along with X and other social media platforms) have been censoring information for a long time, in many ways, and are doing it to this day.

So, what can you do? The answers are simple:

1. Stop using products from these companies.

2. Choose alternatives that involve less censorship, surveillance, and data harvesting.

Details, next.

🪜 Step 1: Stop using the constellation of products and services offered by these companies.

We hear the cries: “But, these products are so convenient! We’ll be lost without them” Well, those statements may be true, but people lived without these products for thousands of years.

With “free” digital products, YOU are the product; THEY are the customer. In other words, these products and services surveil you and harvest your data for their own use and for sales to third parties. If you’re OK with that, by all means continue using the products.

⚠️ Be sure to read the incredibly boring — but important — privacy policies of any app or company you sign on with.

A few privacy policy examples, randomly chosen or relevant to this article:

• Google: tinyurl.com/mv79s37x

• Facebook/Meta: tinyurl.com/ywfp2uw2

• X/Twitter: tinyurl.com/2pd5px2c

• United Healthcare: tinyurl.com/f6x9bk4a

• The Wellness Company: tinyurl.com/39ffeaw3

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Per Grok, Alphabet Inc. (abc.xyz), Google’s parent company, owns:

ED NOTE
Our sources listed abc.xyz as Alphabet’s website. This takes you to Alphabet Investor Relations; we’re not sure why.

Major Subsidiaries/Companies of Alphabet:

Alphabet Inc.'s subsidiaries, as per the latest SEC Exhibit 21 (omitting non-significant ones):

• Google LLC (Delaware)

• XXVI Holdings Inc. (Delaware)

• Alphabet Capital US LLC (Delaware)

Subsidiary details include:

• Google (including YouTube, Android, Waze, DoubleClick, Nest, Fitbit, Mandiant, Looker). Full list of Google Products: about.google/products

• Waymo (autonomous driving)

• Verily (health tech)

• Calico (biotech)

• Wing (drone delivery)

• GV (venture capital)

• CapitalG (growth equity)

• Isomorphic Labs (AI drug discovery)

Key Products/Platforms:

• Google Search, Maps, Gmail, Calendar, Ads, Play Store

• Android OS

• Chrome browser

• Pixel phones

• Google Cloud

• YouTube

• Fitbit wearables

• Nest smart home devices

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Per Grok, Meta Inc. (meta.com), Facebook’s parent company owns:

Meta Platforms owns the following major companies:

• Facebook

• Instagram

• WhatsApp

• Messenger

• Oculus VR (Reality Labs)

Subsidiaries

• Acrylic Software (2012)

• AI.Reverie (2021)

• Ascenta (2014)

• Atlas Advertiser Suite (2013)

• Atlast ML (2020)

• Beluga (2011)

• Berlin Startup (2022)

• BigBox VR (2021)

• Bloomsbury AI (2018)

• Brain-computer interface startup (2019)

• Branch (2014)

• Chai Labs (2010)

• Chainspace (2019)

• ConnectU (2009, court settlement)

• CrowdTangle (2016)

• Daytum (2011)

• Downpour Interactive (2021)

• drop.io (2010)

• Endaga (2015)

• face.com (2012)

• Facebook India Online Services Pvt Ltd.

• FacioMetrics (2016)

• Fayteq (2017)

• fb.com (2011)

• friend.ly (2011)

• Friendster (2010, IP)

• Giphy (2020, divested 2023)

• Glancee (2012)

• GrokStyle (2019)

• Hot Potato (2010)

• Hot Studio (2013)

• Karma (2012)

• Kustomer (2020)

• Lemnis Technologies (2020)

• Lightbox (2012)

• Little Eye Labs (2014)

• LiveRail (2014)

• Luxexcel (2022)

• MailRank (2011)

• Mapillary (2020)

• Meta do Brasil Ltda.

• Meta Platforms Ireland Limited

• Meta Platforms Japan

• Mobile Technologies (2013)

• Monoidics' Assets (2013)

• Moves (2014)

• Msqrd (2016)

• Nextstop (2010)

• Oculus VR (2014)

• Onavo (2013)

• Osmeta (2013)

• Out of Stealth Mode (2011)

• Ozlo (2017)

• Packagd (2019)

• Parakey (2007)

• Parse (2013)

• Pebbles (2015)

• PlayAI (2025)

• PlayGiga (2019)

• Presize (2022)

• PrivateCore (2014)

• Push Pop Press (2011)

• QuickFire Networks (2015)

• Redkix (2018)

• Rivos (2025)

• Scape Technologies (2020)

• Servicefriend (2019)

• ShareGrove (2010)

• Snaptu (2011)

• Sofa (2011)

• Sound Studio (2014)

• spaceport.io (2013, team)

• Spool (2012)

• Sporty (2013)

• Startup for government ID verification (2018)

• Storylane (2013)

• Strobe (2011)

• Studio behind Crayta (2021)

• Surreal Vision (2015)

• Tagtile (2012)

• tbh (2017)

• TheFind (2015, shut down)

• Threadsy (2012)

• Three VR game developers (2022)

• Two Big Ears (2016)

• Vidpresso's team and tech (2018)

• VR studio behind Beat Saber (2019)

• VR studio behind Lone Echo (2020)

• WaveForms (2025)

• WhatsApp (2014)

• wit.ai (2015)

• Within (2021)

• Zenbe (2010)

• Zurich Eye (2016)

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🪜 🪜 Step 2: Choose alternatives that involve less censorship and surveillance.

Do your best to “unplug” from Google, Facebook, smart phones, and similar data harvesting and surveillance devices and apps. You may have to pay a small subscription fee for some apps (especially email), but isn’t more freedom worth a bit less convenience?

Find some unplugging tips here:

• ACTION ITEMS: Reignite Freedom - Global Walkout > Global Walkout Steps: tinyurl.com/mt3y2srx

• Resources > Protect Your Privacy: tinyurl.com/2arybmrc

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Article Summary (Grok ai, edited; image from article)

As The Wall Street Journal remarked, “the idea that Google would know the structure of thousands of people’s bodies — down to the molecules inside their cells” — raised significant privacy concerns.

Google's parent company Alphabet has been censoring vaccine-related information before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. These censorial ways continue to this day.

Why? The usual: Alphabet has financial ties with pharmaceutical and biotech industries through subsidiaries like Verily Life Sciences.

This article focuses on Google, but also mentions Facebook’s similar behavior.

Censorship During COVID-19 Alphabet told Congress that the Biden administration pressured YouTube to remove videos not violating policies, calling it unacceptable. However, Alphabet's policies were created with health authorities including CDC and WHO, leading to censorship of true information. A UN official noted Google's role in helping authorities "own the science" in search results. Alphabet promised to restore suspended channels as policies evolved (this restoration currently is incomplete).

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg also admitted similar pressures on Facebook.

Pre-COVID Censorship and Pharma Ties Google's censorship of vaccine facts predates COVID-19. Alphabet has ties to pharma via subsidiaries including Calico, DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs, and Verily.

Google Ventures Investments

• Launched in 2009 as GV, invested in pharma and biotech.

• Examples: Flatiron Health (AI for oncology, acquired by Roche for $1.9 billion), DNAnexus (DNA sequencing), SynapDx (autism testing), 23andMe (DNA testing and research).

Google X and Life Sciences Projects

• Launched in 2010, developed smart lens for glucose monitoring, licensed to Novartis in 2014.

• Baseline Study in 2014 collected genetic data for biomarkers.

• Partnered with Ethicon (J&J) in 2015 for surgical robots, forming Verb Surgical in 2017, later fully acquired by J&J.

Verily Life Sciences

• Formed in 2015 from Google Life Sciences, renamed in 2015.

• CEO Andrew Conrad aimed to "defeat Mother Nature."

• Joint venture Galvani Bioelectronics with GSK in 2016 for bioelectronic medicines; board included Moncef Slaoui.

• Joint venture Onduo with Sanofi in 2016 for diabetes management; became Verily subsidiary; incorporated Fitbit after Google's 2021 acquisition.

• Sanofi-Google partnership in 2019 for AI in drug development.

• Project Baseline rebooted as Verily Me app, prompting users on flu vaccinations and sharing data for drug development.

• Partners: Novartis, Otsuka, Pfizer, Sanofi for clinical research.

Google Support for Lockdowns and Surveillance

• Google, with Apple, built contact tracing software in 2020.

• Verily's Healthy at Work Program app tracked symptoms, testing, and vaccination status for employers and universities.

• Awarded $38 million contract for CDC's wastewater surveillance.

• Part of NIH/FDA's Accelerating Medicines Partnership with GSK, Merck, Pfizer, Sanofi.

Ongoing Censorship Alphabet blamed the Biden White House, but censorship persists. Suspended accounts including Children's Health Defense remain banned. Alphabet is highly involved in data-mining for biopharma and agencies.

Related:

• REAL ID, a national digital identification, surveillance, and control system: tinyurl.com/3pjcv7y2

• 🆕 AI Data Mining Privacy Warning for Gmail Users: tinyurl.com/y6zv3t74