Google Manipulated Search Results in 2016 & 2018 Elections
Dr. Robert Epstein: Research Documents Google Search
‘Irregularities’ in 2018 Election
By Chrlie Nash 3 Dec 2018
Liberal Psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein appeared on
SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Sunday to discuss Google’s power and
influence over public opinion and voting patterns with Breitbart News Deputy
political editor Amanda House.
On the topic of a recent report which claimed Google
employees spoke about burying conservative websites such as Breitbart and the
Daily Caller in an effort to “reverse things in four years,” Epstein declared,
“It’s just another indication, Amanda, of what a lot of us have suspected for a
long time. It just confirms based on actual communications within the company
that Google has the power to shift the votes and opinions on anything, and they
discuss the power. They wouldn’t discuss it if they didn’t have it, and they
exercise the power. There’s simply no question about that.”
“We’ve seen a number of leaks in the last couple of
months. Before that, for almost twenty years, Google was very good at keeping
its secrets. But lately we’ve been seeing what things look like from the
inside, and it’s pretty scary,” Epstein continued. “There’s lots of research
now showing that in fact we trust the information we get from algorithms, like
Google search algorithms, more than we trust any other media source because
people don’t understand what an algorithm is and they think that, you know, it’s
a computer algorithm showing this information, it must be the best. It must be
correct.”
“And that’s why in our experiments, some of them show
that you can use Google search results to shift people’s opinions and voting
preferences by up to eighty percent in some demographic groups, and by the way,
the most vulnerable demographic group we’ve ever found in the U.S. is moderate
Republicans,” he explained. “They’re incredibly trusting of Google search
results.”
After being asked if he found any Google search
irregularities during the Midterm elections, Epstein replied, “I can tell you
now, on the record… Yes, I did. I did this secretly in 2016, capturing around
13,000 election-related searches on Google, Bing, and Yahoo, and this time I
captured about 40,000 election-related searches on Google, Bing, and Yahoo, so
yes I did.”
Noting that he isn’t a political conservative, Epstein
concluded by stating that concerns over Google’s power are “bigger than one’s
politics.”
“Whatever Google happens to be doing today, whoever they
happen to be favoring today, they might not favor tomorrow,” Epstein concluded.
“We all need to be concerned about one company having this much power to shape
opinions and flip elections, and without them being accountable to the public,
without them being constrained in any way by any regulations or laws. That’s my
concern. I think it’s bigger than one’s politics… This is a concern we should
all share.”
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