Google Shifted a ‘Minimum’ of 6 Million Votes in 2020 Election: Dr. Robert Epstein
Google Shifted a ‘Minimum’ of 6 Million Votes
in 2020 Election: Dr. Robert Epstein
BY November 24, 2020 Updated:
November 26, 2020
Google shifted a “bare minimum” of
six million votes in the Nov. 3 presidential election by pushing its political agenda onto its users,
a research psychologist has claimed.
In an interview with Fox News’ “Tucker
Carlson Tonight,” Dr. Robert Epstein, a senior research psychologist at the
American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology in California,
suggested that the big tech company’s search manipulation could have prompted
millions of Americans to shift their votes toward Democrats.
“Google search results were strongly biased
in favor of liberals and Democrats. This was not true on Bing or Yahoo,”
Epstein said, referring to a team he put together to monitor the activities of
big tech companies in the run up to the 2020 election.
The project team recruited “a diverse group
of 733 registered voters, Republicans, Democrats, and Independents,” from
“three very critical battleground states: Arizona, Florida, and North
Carolina,” who were then equipped with special software that tracked their
activity on the internet, such as searches on Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
“The bias was being shown to pretty much
every demographic group we looked at, including conservatives … conservatives
got slightly more bias in their search results than liberals did. How do you
account for that?” Epstein said.
Epstein told The Epoch Times this month that the
software gave the project team the ability to see–with the agents’
permission—all election-related activities on the internet performed by the
field agents, allowing the team to capture ephemeral content such as search
results, reminders, search suggestions, and newsfeeds.
“We also found what seems to be a smoking
gun,” Epstein continued. “That is, we found a period of days when the vote
reminder on Google’s homepage was being sent only to liberals—not one of our
conservative field agents received a vote reminder during those days.”
He said that when he went public with his
research on Oct. 29, Google “backed off.”
“The bottom line at the moment is that
these manipulations, the ones that we’ve so far quantified, could easily have
shifted at least 6 million votes in just one direction,” Epstein added. “That’s
the bare minimum at this point, that I’m confident. The maximum we haven’t even
begun to estimate that yet because we have so much data to look at.”
In explaining his findings on Epoch
Times’ “American Thought Leaders” program, Epstein said Google’s home page is
viewed in the United States 500 million times a day.
“If that kind of reminder was being used
systematically over a period of time, it affected more than who voted on
Election Day—it affected who sent in mail-in votes, it affected who registered
to vote,” he said.
Google, the world’s largest internet
company with some 100,000 employees and more than $130 billion in annual
revenue, has long been accused of channeling the politics of its mostly
left-leaning workforce into its products, which the company has repeatedly
denied.
Google did not immediately respond to a
request for comment by The Epoch Times.
Responding to Epstein’s research, Sens. Ron
Johnson (R-Wis.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Mike Lee (R-Utah) submitted a letter on Nov. 5 to Google CEO Sundar Pichai requesting
clarification of his testimony to the House Committee on the Judiciary and his
response to senators’ written inquiry from August.
Cruz accused big tech companies of
presenting a “grave threat” to free speech in the United States and election
integrity.
“Google has more power than any company on
the face of the planet, and Dr. Epstein’s findings raise serious concerns about
Google’s abuse of that power and its willingness to manipulate its platform to
help Joe Biden win the presidency. Google must provide answers as to why and
how it manipulated users to influence this election,” he said in a statement.
Ella Kietlinska and Jan Jekielek contributed to this report.
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