Posted on 11/07/2022 10:17:50 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A flood of political content has been found that is being sent to voters in swing states through more than 2,500 computers owned by a politically-diverse group of registered voters showing concerning election interference. Independent media is reporting on the story while the corporate media is ignoring the emerging information.
“We are aggregating and analyzing search results on the Google and Bing search engines, messages displayed on Google’s home page, autoplay videos suggested on YouTube, tweets sent to users by the Twitter company (as opposed to tweets sent by other users), email suppression on Gmail, and more,” The Daily Caller reported, adding:
“We have so far preserved more than 1.9 million “ephemeral experiences” – exposure to short-lived content that impacts people and then disappears, leaving no trace – that Google and other companies are able to use to shift opinions and voting preferences, and we expect to have captured more than 2.5 million by Election Day.
In emails leaked from Google to The Wall Street Journal in 2018, Googlers (that’s what they call themselves) discussed how they might be able to use “ephemeral experiences” to change people’s views about Trump’s travel ban. The company later denied that this plan was ever implemented, but leaked content (including multiple blacklists) and startling revelations by Tristan Harris, Zach Vorhies, and other whistleblowers show that Google is indeed out to remake the world in its own image. As the company’s CFO, Ruth Porat, said in a November 11th, 2016 video that leaked in 2018, “we will use the great strength and resources and reach we have” to advance Google’s values.”
The outlet continued:
Since early 2016, my team has been developing and improving Neilsen-type monitoring systems that allow us to do to Google-and-the-Gang what they do to us and our children 24/7: to track their activity, and, specifically, to preserve that very dangerous and persuasive ephemeral content.
Since 2013, I have been conducting rigorous controlled experiments to quantify how persuasive that kind of content can be. I’ve so far identified about a dozen new forms of online manipulation that make use of ephemeral experiences, and nearly all these techniques are controlled exclusively by Google and, to a lesser extent, other tech companies.
These new forms of influence are stunning in their impact. Search results that favor one candidate (in other words, that lead people who click on high-ranking results to web pages that glorify that candidate) can shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by up to 80 percent in some demographic groups after a single search. Carefully crafted search suggestions that flash at you while you are typing a search term can turn a 50/50 split among undecided voters into a 90/10 split with no one knowing they have been manipulated. A single question-and-answer interaction on a digital personal assistant can shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by more than 40 percent.
In 2020, the 1.5 million ephemeral experiences we aggregated from the computers of our 1,735 field agents showed us manipulations that were sufficient, in theory, to have shifted more than six million votes to Joe Biden (whom I supported) – again, without people knowing they were being manipulated. Among other findings: Google was sending more go-vote reminders to liberals and moderates than to conservatives; that’s a brazen and powerful manipulation that would go completely undetected unless someone was monitoring.
Our preliminary analyses of the data we have collected so far in 2022 are equally disturbing. In swing states, and especially in Wisconsin, Arizona, and Florida, we are finding a high level of liberal bias in Google search results, but not in search results on Bing (the same pattern we have found in every election since 2016). In several swing states, 92 percent of the autoplay videos being fed to YouTube users are coming from liberal news sources (YouTube is owned by Google). Unless Google backs down, it will shift hundreds of thousands of votes on Election Day itself with those brazen targeted go-vote reminders – and we will catch them doing so.
That brings me to some surprisingly hopeful news. Just before the November 3, 2020 Presidential election, I was so unnerved by the extreme bias we were seeing in our data that I decided to go public. Ebony Bowden at the New York Post wrote a powerful story about election rigging that might have made the front page, but on October 30, after a phone call between an editor and a Google official, the piece was killed – no doubt because the Post was getting 45 percent of its online traffic from the company in question.
On November 5, however, three U.S. Senators sent an intimidating letter to the CEO of Google summarizing my preliminary findings, and the company instantly turned off all manipulations in the Georgia Senate races.
We were monitoring those races through more than a thousand computers owned by a diverse and undetectable pool of real voters in Georgia, and not one received a go-vote reminder. Even more striking, political bias in Google search results dropped to zero. I had thought that such a feat would be impossible, but Vorhies explained that Google can turn bias on and off “like flipping a light switch.” He also pointed me to leaked company documents such as the manual for the company’s Twiddler software, used for “re-ranking” search results.
Will the article you are now reading change the course of history? Will it cause Google to take its digital thumb off the scales in our midterm elections? Whatever Mr. Pichai, its CEO, decides to do, we will know, and we will preserve the evidence.
And this time, we will continue to expand the monitoring system, and we will be monitoring content going not just to voters but also to America’s children. By late 2023, we will have a digital shield in place – a panel of more than 20,000 field agents in all 50 states – and we will shame Big Tech into staying clear of our elections and our kids for many years to come.
Bfl
2nd time today I’ve read data scientist. I’ve never heard that term before, and I’ve got a BSCS.
There is only ONE SOLUTION. Everybody who wants to vote shows up at the polls on election day and is given a ballot and a pencil. They drop the ballot in the ballot box once it is completed and then leave after sticking their finger in a jar of purple ink. If you can’t do that, you have no business voting anyway. EVERYTHING ELSE IS FRAUD PERIOD.
“Carefully crafted search suggestions that flash at you while you are typing a search term”
Brilliant. So simple and yet so effective.
Data Science is a real field of study and awards degrees from BS to PhD. Think two years of foundational CS plus data analytics, machine learning, neural networks, reinforcement learning, data mining, and mathematical modeling. Also a healthy dose of probability and statistics.
Courts should fine them several billion.
I clicked FR keyword DataScientist and there’s few articles. Oldest is 2018. My former company’s DBA was data scientist, before it had a job name.
What does this mean?
People who let google do their thinking for them are lazy and idiots.
And unfortunately, they vote.
Like the subliminal advertising that was inserted into movie reels in the '50s and '60s. Just one frame, so you never became conscious of it, but you developed an overpowering urge to go out to the concession stand for overpriced cokes and popcorn,
Once again, Google is evil.
Alphabet (parent company of Google and YouTube) is the very worst of the Big Tech monopolies. They must be broken up up most of all.
People who let google do their thinking for them are lazy and idiots.IOW, Twitterdom.And unfortunately, they vote.
The vote fraud on the computers and servers had more of a impact.
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I believe the ballot harvesting was the key for the steal…. But in conjunction with the other schemes its pretty obvious it was fraudulent at many levels.
Agreed. It’s one day out of the year, and in many places, every 2 years. Use taxpayer dollars to fund Ubers, Lyfts, taxis, whatever to get elderly, infirm, and indigent folks to the polls. They can’t say we’re suppressing the rights of the poor and the downtrodden.
ID is required. Every state has provisions for a free state-sponsor identification card. You show your ID, your ID is checked against voter rolls, you get a paper ballot and ink pen, fill it out, drop it in a box, and you leave.
Old school Scantron forms have been in use for decades, and they work just fine. Worst case, a hand recount could be conducted by a human being, but in my years as a teacher’s assistant in HS and college, I never once saw one of those machines get a marking wrong unless the student double-marked something where they shouldn’t have.
Every civilized first-world nation knows that mail-in and early voting are ripe for fraud. Why we continue to act like it doesn’t here in the US is beyond my comprehension.
That and outright fake ballots dumped in Philly and Detroit among other places.
google is not a search engine. It’s a high tech company whose goal is to use high tech to promote socialist goals.
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