WND Whines Google Blocked Access To Its (Malware-Infected) Website

Joseph Farah’s Aug. 12 column was yet another screed about Google is DEMONETIZING his WorldNetDaily — which, of course, isn’t true; Google has simply chosen to no longer do business with a hateful fake-news publisher like WND, as is its right as a private business. And he peddled more lies in pushing that claim:

Despite my somewhat hysterical warnings, they succeeded in their evil plot when Trump faced a challenge by a hapless opponent, Joe Biden. (Just see the documentary film “2000 Mules.”) 

America has not been the same place since that election. Biden followed the script well. He’s turned America into a nightmare virtually overnight.

Yet, when WND reports about this nightmare reality truthfully and boldly – about the intentional foreign invasion of our country, about January 6, about the transgender youth-grooming craze, about the astonishing level of Biden family corruption involving “the Big Guy,” and so on – Google calls us “dangerous.” Others call us similar things – “conspiracy nuts,” “wackos,” “purveyors of disinformation.” In truth, though, it’s the fake news outfits that are doing that. That’s Google-controlled news.

Of course, fake news and conspiracy theories are a key component of WND’s editorial agenda — and the reason WND has been facing continuous financial crises over the past few years. It’s a lesson Farah has chosen not to learn.

Managing editor David Kupelian tried to up the panic level in an Aug. 16 column accusing Google of going for a “kill shot” against WND, falsely suggesting this was a new thing. In fact, it’s the “demonetization” that WND has been ranting about for months, yet Kupelian insisted this was evidence that Google is “maniacally intent on killing the WND ‘David,’ a small, Christian journalism operation that somehow refuses to die, despite continual attacks from all sides.” Kupelian then laughably tried to frame its anti-LGBT hate as love and its COVID misinformation as somehow truthful (spoiler: it isn’t):

Of course, all this pained moralizing over “hatred” and “discrimination” toward people who are military veterans, disabled, elderly and so on is idiotic. No one hates or discriminates against veterans, the disabled or the elderly. That’s camouflage. What Google really wants to protect from any criticism or opposing viewpoint is “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” Indeed, when as a news organization WND dares to report honestly and forthrightly on the fantastically deranged transgender agenda – where beautiful American children from coast to coast are indoctrinated, seduced, groomed, recruited and enabled to “transition to a different gender” by taking puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and even undergoing double mastectomies and castration – when WND sounds the alarm over any of this, which we do daily, Google sees that as “inciting hatred” and “promoting discrimination.”

How about: We’re defending and protecting the most innocent, helpless and precious among us – the children who will make up America’s next generation? That’s not “hatred”; it sounds more like love.

There’s more. Google tells WND it does “not allow content that … promotes harmful health claims, or relates to a current major health crisis and contradicts authoritative scientific consensus.”

Translation: When we report knowledgeably and truthfully on the Biden administration’s absolutely deranged and tyrannical mismanagement of the COVID pandemic – from imposing vaccine mandates that have thrown tens of thousands of soldiers, sailors, Marines, nurses, paramedics, police, firemen and other frontline heroes (including my own son) out of work, to suppressing inexpensive, effective and readily available early outpatient treatment of COVID, to pretending “natural immunity” isn’t real even though at least 92 studies prove it’s superior to vaccine immunity, to insisting that infants and toddlers be needlessly injected with the experimental and hazardous mRNA “vaccines” – well, such reporting as ours is simply not allowed. Only the official Biden narrative – you know, the one based on massive lying, and which failed at every turn to end the pandemic, while driving up suicide, addiction, overdose deaths, depression and crime rates across the nation, and introduced a level of authoritarianism never before seen in America – is allowed.

Like Farah’s column, Kupelian’s piece ended with a money beg. 

Farah reference a new issue with Google in his Aug. 26 column, citing a reader letter claiming that “Google has put a Malware warning” on WND, whcih of course sent Farah into conspiracy mode: “It’s crazier than ever just maintaining our website in 2022. Big Tech must see the handwriting on the wall as they find out most Americans understand how they’re all totally trashing our First Amendment rights.” He then redefined WND’s lies as truth:

So, what has WND actually done during this difficult, blighted time?

We told you the truth about the 2020 election and how it was STOLEN!

We told you the truth about Anthony Fauci!

We told you the truth, every step of the way, about the COVID vaccine hoax!

We exposed the transgender grooming epidemic now sweeping America – and much more.

Even though we’re the longest lasting, pioneering antidote for fake news, the harassment continues and intensifies.

With the malware claim, Kupelian finally had a new complaint against Google that he ranted about in an Aug. 30 column:

The Google “Goliath” has finally outdone itself in its campaign to completely destroy the WND “David,” the small Christian journalism operation that somehow refuses to die, despite continual attacks from all sides.

For the past week, Google has been warning everyone on the internet who tries to access WND.com via Google that the 25-year-old pioneering news website is outright dangerous to their computer!

This is no exaggeration: Reports from readers from all over confirm what WND’s staffers and independent tech team have been experiencing continually for the last week: When they try to reach WND by way of Google, clicking on the “WND: Home” link that Google provides leads not to WND.com, but to a threatening page saying: “Warning — visiting this web site may harm your computer!”

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Ironically, if you click on Google’s own “Safe Browsing diagnostic page” link, you get taken to a page labeled “Safe Browsing Site Status” which clearly states: “No unsafe content found.” (See screenshot below.) This deceitful and profoundly destructive attack on WND persists day after day, despite multiple appeals to Google by WND’s tech team.

Which is a strange complaint because WND frequently complains that Google excludes WND from its searches. Kupelian included screenshot of the message but no proof from “WND’s tech team” that there was nothing wrong with the website, so he has no apparent proof that Google;s claim about the WND website is “false.” He went on to copy-and-paste parts of his Google attack from his earlier column and added a money beg. Then he declared another conspiracy:

In addition to this, WND is simultaneously receiving a flood of reader reports that subscribers to WND’s email news alerts are discovering that our emails are being redirected to their spam folders! Even when subscribers take the time and trouble to repeatedly designate WND’s emails as legitimate and not spam, our emails continue to go to their spam folder, many have told us. 

The next day, Farah wrote a column declaring that Google had been blocking WND’s site for “11 days” — even though Kupelian had written that it had been going on only “for the past week”:

For some, even the live links within the news alerts are now also dead, preventing email recipients from clicking through to WND’s news stories.

It seems that once Google designated WND as “harmful to your computer,” the world’s email providers followed Google’s lead and stopped delivering our emails to subscribers – because they’re “unsafe.”

Google has been attacking WND for years, as long ago as 2014, attacks which continued and metastasized until late last year Google permanently demonetized us. And now this.

WND has been a critical test case for what remains of free speech and a free press in America. If they can kill us, they will come for every other Christian and conservative site on the internet.

Farah continued to play victim in a Sept. 1 column:

While the blacklisting continues now for 12 days, WND is simultaneously receiving a flood of reader reports that subscribers to WND’s email news alerts are finding our emails being redirected to their spam folders! Even when subscribers take the time to designate that WND’s emails are not spam, our emails continue to go to their spam folder, many have told us. For some readers, the live links to various stories on WND’s news alerts are now also dead – so the recipients can’t click through to read the news stories being presented.

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Of course, it’s not just Google. YouTube (owned by Google) has also permanently de-monetized WND’s channel, Facebook has seriously suppressed our traffic for years, something Facebook’s reps have even admitted to us. Amazon killed our book and movie division through monopolistic strategies too. And Microsoft calls us names on its opening page (“WorldNetDaily: Fake news website”). It’s not just Big Tech; it should be called Big Bad Tech.

But we get a little livid when the biggest search engine in the world tells our readers who are trying to visit our site are turned away. Again, this latest full-bore assault on WND has being going on for 12 days.

An anonymously written “news” article that same day rebranded the site blocking as the “kill shot”– but also that there was an actual, legitimate reason Google put the warning on the website: 

WND’s managing editor, David Kupelian, explained to the Gateway Pundit in an interview that early last week there was a malware issue with a new advertiser, but that WND’s tech team had immediately removed the advertisement. Yet starting on about Aug. 22, the Google blocking of WND persisted for the next week and a half, despite the fact that the problem had long ago been removed, as Google’s own diagnostic page confirmed.If it were CNN’s or the Washington Post’s website that had such an issue, there is little doubt that Google would have resolved it immediately, Kupelian argued. 

“Google demonetized WND.com a few months ago, which severely hurt our revenues, but this current attack is a genuine kill shot: Google is now warning the entire world that a respected 25-year-old independent Christian journalism site is harmful to their computer. That’s vicious,” Kupelian said Wednesday.

That’s right — there was malware on WND’s website, and Google did not invent the issue as a pretense to punish WND. How strange that Kupelian and Farah didn’t mention the advertiser malware issue before this. Still, WND resumed its victim-playing quoting Farah as saying, without evidence, that Google doesn’t like WND “because we were the first Christian news site, as well as the first independent news site of any kind.”

An anonymously written Sept. 2 article repeated much of this, adding that “Kupelian appeared on several major shows, including One America News with D.C. Bureau Chief John Hines, and was also interviewed by InfoWars’ Owen Shroyer, explaining to both outlets what Google has been doing.” The fact that WND thinks the failing OAN and the about-to-be-sued-into-oblivion Infowars offer “major shows” shows the lowly state of WND these days.