Google Will ‘Actively Interfere’ in 2020 Elections, Researcher Says

epoch times ^ | 8/7/2019 | BOWEN XIAO

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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..

[End Times Sentinel]

Well, maybe...
Really, if the ds are exposed for all their corruption, and I believe President Trump is a master at timing, nothing short of an all-out heist of the election will put the ds in power.
If, somehow, they do seize power, prepare for a civil war. Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. But WAY more of the snowflakes will pay the wages of sin.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

That 20% jumped out at me, too. I find that very hard to believe. Seems like that is more likely to be Democrat-peer-review created to dispirit conservatives.

[ez]

Oddly enough the left and their associated crookss aren’t even justifying what they’re doing....they just do it.

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I don’t think they believe they are skewing the election results. I think they live in a world where they believe they are advancing good over evil.

I’ve come to the conclusion that both sides live in completely different realities and that they can’t coexist ... someday one of those realities is going to come crashing down. Either we’ll have America back or we’ll have Orwell’s 1984.

[Pearls Before Swine]

That 20% jumped out at me, too. I find that very hard to believe. Seems like that is more likely to be Democrat-peer-review created to dispirit conservatives.

It seems to be a repeat of what Dr. Epstein testified to in Congress about the manipulative effect of media, especially Google. I think Dr. Epstein's testimony was elicited by Republicans.

[Lumper20]

It is almost impossible to avoid google totally. They own Gmail too.

[rktman]

Yup. And have their tentacles in a lot more.