The anti-Google documentary “The Creepy Line” is a conspiratorial new playbook for right-wing tech backlash

Are internet platforms suppressing speech and hurting civic culture? Google’s critics could build a case for this claim on a censorship-friendly search app for Chinese citizens, YouTube’s confusing demonetization of news-heavy YouTube channels, or Google’s work on military AI. Critics of Facebook could bring up the massive Cambridge Analytica scandal or its failure to spot foreign misinformation campaigns. Both groups could mention Google and Facebook’s connections to co