You need to read more from Dr. Epstein. You need to research "The Creepy Line".
Sheeple can only be bombarded just so much with anti-Trump results and pro-liberal articles. Millions of votes went to Hillary in 2016 because Google.
When they limit casual access to information, people only get one side, or one cluster of sides of an issue.
Google and Facebook have published studies on identifying manipulable people and seeing what it takes to get them to succumb to peer pressure. A specific example was the release of the rainbow icon after the SCOTUS Gay Marriage ruling. That was done to track those characteristics, by seeing how the posting of the icon spread.
One of them got some grief a few years ago for a project to see what the effect of fat-shaming teen and preteen girls had on their ability to be manipulated.
Likewise, the 2012 Obama Campaign was bragging all over the place after the election how they had created targeted, detailed, tailored messaging for spreading their talking points, rally/parties, and for fund-raising (with the support of a lot of folks from Google). They’d develop numerous different versions for the same event, and send them to a precise target audience without any of the other subgroups being aware.
“Like” on Facebook? Click on certain links? You create a detailed psychological profile that they can design an attack. A LOT of people can be influenced through this sort of social engineering. We see variants of it in the mental health issues so many young people who spend a lot of time on social media have - and that’s largely from mere undirected interaction.
I watched Mr. Epstein’s testimony before the Senate making the same claims. I didn’t believe them then and I still don’t.