'''Alphabet Inc.''' is the parent company of [[Google]], which also owns [[YouTube]], [[Android]], [[The Groundwork]] and dozens of other companies.
'''Alphabet Inc.''' is the parent company of [[Google]], which also owns [[YouTube]], [[Android]], [[The Groundwork]] and dozens of other companies.
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The Groundwork in 2015 boasted it could influence the [[vote]] in any [[democracy|democratic]] [[election]] anywhere in the world as much as 25%,<ref>[http://qz.com/520652/groundwork-eric-schmidt-startup-working-for-hillary-clinton-campaign/ 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</ref> highlighting the [[Search engine manipulation effect]].
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==Election medling==
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The Groundwork in 2015 boasted it could influence the [[vote]] in any [[democracy|democratic]] [[election]] anywhere in the world as much as 25%,<ref>[http://qz.com/520652/groundwork-eric-schmidt-startup-working-for-hillary-clinton-campaign/ 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</ref> highlighting the [[search engine manipulation effect]].
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[[Eric Schmidt]], [[CEO]] of Alphabet funded a startup company called The Groundwork to ensure [[Hillary Clinton]] had the engineering talent needed to win the [[2016 presidential election'.<ref>[http://qz.com/520652/groundwork-eric-schmidt-startup-working-for-hillary-clinton-campaign/ 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</ref> Schmidt and Google are both donors to the [[Clinton Foundation]].