‘March on Google’ organized for Atlanta Saturday

Website disputes reports it is part of ‘alt-right’ group.

A group protesting Google as an “anti-free speech monopoly” says it has organized marches on Saturday in nine cities, including Atlanta.

The organizers of the “March on Google” have disputed reports that they are affiliated with the “alt-right.” According to a statement on its website, the group “disavows violence, hatred and bigotry in all groups that espouse it, such as white nationalists, KKK, Antipha and neo-Nazis.”

The March on Google is a protest of what the group says is Google’s suppression of libertarian and conservative content.

The group’s website does not provide any information about local organizers in Atlanta, so it was impossible to confirm that there will be a march in Atlanta or how many people it might involve. It is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. and either starts or ends (the website doesn’t specify) at the Google Atlanta location at 10th and Peachtree Streets.

Infowars, the right-wing website, said the marches have been organized “in large part by Jack Posobiec, a frequent contributor to Infowars.”

Posobiec was recently in the news for championing “Pizzagate,” a conspiracy theory in which Hillary Clinton loyalists were supposedly running a child sex ring out of a pizzeria in Washington. He also has promoted claims that the Democratic National Committee was involved in the death of former staffer Seth Rich.

Neither story was true, but a man fired several shots into the pizza restaurant about a month later. The group said it has invited James Damore to one of the marches. Damore is a software engineer fired by Google for writing in a company memo that biological differences between men and women “may explain why we don’t see an equal representation of women in tech and leadership.”

Damore called his memorandum “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber: how bias clouds our thinking about diversity and inclusion.”