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..
(Excerpt) Read more at m.theepochtimes.com ...
Nonsense, the issues you are talking about are ones that they can easily hide. There is no way of putting a system in place and keeping track of this.
INSTEAD:
Immeditately turn all social media and search engines and AMAZON into Utilities.
Regulated like Utilities and cannot censorin any way.
Censorship happens at the user level.
LOL. I scanned the headline too quickly and read that “George Will will interfere.” I think it took three readings to get it right.
What’s the big deal? The left really doesn’t hide anything they do nor do we do anything about it. It’s rather sickening. 2020 is not a given. Even if Trump wins re-election (it will not be a cake walk), the left can harvest more votes to strengthen the House majority and possibly take the Senate back which would lame duck Trump making MAGA again toothless.
Bttt.
What an awful world leftists are trying to create...
They already created it.
Liberals are sick people...
[ Google Will ‘Actively Interfere’ in 2020 Elections, Researcher Says ]
I think that horse is already out of the barn...
Who are you . A google facebook censor. Dessent is death dem?
This board is a place to crtically examine Everthing.. Everone.. as a community and as individuals.
I wasnt really counting on your approval, i promise.
If he supports red flag rules, he left the Constitution.. that means something to a lot of freepers who care about the existence of this Republic.
You are welcome to support any gun grabber you choose.
[Alphabet, the parent company of Google]
Heh. I suspect a few at the top have a wry sense of humor. With a bit of “in your face” attitude.
yes
"in your face" attitude sorta like Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the picture of 'entitlement',
..and 'you peons can't touch me'.
Yep - I think they know a whole lot of the game is rigged
Here is a youtube video of a Senate Hearing where Psychologist Dr. Epstein (quoted in the article) testified as to how many votes google likely swayed in past elections, and potentially how many they could influence in the future. Questioned by Senator Cruz.
https://youtu.be/IzF7nBmwPso?t=330
Same difference.
So you are saying if you cannot win, you'll join the enemy by default?
Nah, do that in reverse. Serve Goolag, then post the relevant laws online. This way they don't have time to cancel their action.
t/y
If the Russkis actually did interfere and collude in our elections as some claim, THE FRIGGIN’ DEMOCRATS MADE THEM THE BIG WINNERS. The Russkis wanted to divide America. The Friggin’, lowlife “democrats” made sure they succeeded.
BUMP!
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