Alphabet Inc.

Alphabet Inc. is the parent company of Google, which also owns YouTube, Android, The Groundwork and dozens of other companies.

## Election medling[edit]

Eric Schmidt, then CEO of Alphabet, funded the startup Groundwork to ensure Hillary Clinton had the engineering talent needed to win the 2016 presidential election. The Groundwork in 2015 boasted it could influence the vote in any democratic election anywhere in the world as much as 25%, highlighting the search engine manipulation effect.[1] Schmidt and Google are both donors to the Clinton Foundation.

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## References[edit]

1. ↑ THE GROUNDWORK The stealthy, Eric Schmidt-backed startup that’s working to put Hillary Clinton in the White House, Adam Pasick & Tim Fernholz, Quartz, October 09, 2015. qz.com