Posted on 08/08/2019 8:12:32 AM PDT by bitt
A researcher who has spent more than half a decade monitoring Google’s influence said he believes the tech giant will “actively interfere” in the 2020 elections. On Aug. 6, President Donald Trump said his administration is watching Google “very closely.”
Dr. Robert Epstein, senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, told The Epoch Times that Google has access to a number of powerful manipulation methods mostly through “ephemeral experiences” that can shift votes.
Online ephemeral experiences are brief moments where information is generated instantaneously, such as search suggestions. They are not stored anywhere and can’t be tracked. Leaked internal emails from Google in 2018 found employees specifically discussing launching “ephemeral experiences” to counter Trump’s then-travel ban, The Wall Street Journal reported.
In his congressional testimony in July, Epstein noted that if all major technology companies came together to support the same candidate in 2020—which he said was likely—they could shift 15 million votes without leaving a paper trail. Epstein has discovered a dozen methods Google uses to manipulate public opinion or votes, including search engine manipulation effect and search suggestion effects.
“Google will actively interfere in the 2020 elections,” Epstein said. “They’ll actively interfere in their lobbying efforts, they’ll actively interfere with their political donations, and they’ll actively interfere using the online methods of manipulation that I’ve studied and probably other methods that I haven’t yet discovered.”
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, donated $4.7 million to Democratic congressional candidates in 2018, according to FEC records. To Republican candidates, it donated $754,911.
In 2016, Epstein conducted a secret monitoring project that showed Google hid negative auto-complete search results for Hillary Clinton months before the election. His peer-reviewed research found Google’s algorithms can easily shift 20 percent or more of votes among voters..
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After three years of caterwauling about collusion and meddling with elections they think this is okay? I question if the people in charge of Google are even American. They seem to Cozy up to the Chicoms, but then want to interfere in our election? These people are evil and must be stopped by whatever means necessary.
Peer reviewed or not, that seems like a huge number. I'd guess (no peer review, LOL) that the number is more like 5%, which is still unacceptably high.
Most people are too busy or too lazy to develop a coherent historical, social, and economic view for themselves, and instead depend on media and friends for their opinons. Garbage in, garbage out.
This Epstein is not a flake. Actual Clinton supporter. Testified before Congress on manipulation. Showed how Google has already done it for Hillary in 2016.
Epoch Times is certainly not my Go-To but this needs full circulation.
It’s ok if they interfere. They’re not Russia.
/s
Russians at work...BIG DEAL!!!!
GOOGLE AT PLAY... NOT SO MUCH???
They wont have to if he inks red flag laws. Just the fact th hat he supports infringement is enough to keep me away.
It started when he let Syrian rapefugees in freely.. but red flag laws...
Done with this guy.
I suspect either his true colors are showing or he really is bored being prez.
It already is. As is Twitter and all the rest.
Hmmm, never saw this coming... /s /s /s /s /s
Yes it will. It has been filtering search results for years.
It changes the search:
blacks kill cops
to
cops kill blacks
bruce jenner
to
kaityln jenner
they are ready for the elections.
Google is also working to Make China Great Again ,D’oh
[Done with this guy.]
Bye
It killed the discussion on his lack of NBC status, and most low info voters were astonished to only find out his middle name's Huesin, when he was sworn in.
Whenever possible I haven't used google since.
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........ and the sun will set in the west each day.
Somehow ...... enough genuine voters will need to become aware of the filthy manipulations.
I am not sure people are hip (sorry, born in 1947).
Maybe the old skywriters can be used all over the country the last few says before the election to enlighten the voters.
If you go anywhere near Google or Yahoo the bias is immediately in your face. Alternate leftist universe.
Yes, because he Dems will be fielding a pro 2nd amendment candidate for president. Put your big girl panties on and stop trying to discourage conservative voters to go to the polls.
He’ll be pro-2nd Amendment up to election day, after that no so much!
The question is ‘How many will that fool?’.
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