Now, I know what you are thinking... This guy Dr. Robert Epstein, must be a Trump supporter. He must be just trying to give validity to President Trump's claim that he would have won the popular vote if there wasn't so much voter fraud. However, this researcher is no fan of President Trump. He is actually a Hillary Clinton supporter/voter, who has put morality before his politics. Dr. Robert Epstein is genuinely worried about the future of our republic and the integrity of our election process.
Big Tech is a danger to our republic and is not our friend.
“The 2.6 million is a rock bottom minimum. The range is between 2.6 million and 10.4 million depending on how aggressively they used the techniques I’ve been studying now for 6 and a half years.”
Dr Robert Epstein on Google and Censorship - Senate Judiciary Subcommitte, 2019
Dr. Robert Epstein explains how Google manipulates elections
President Trump Tweets and The Media Loses Their Minds.... Again.
This is a story the media would rather ignore, but has now just gotten tons of notoriety and the jig is up for Google and the Radical Regressive Democrats/Radical Leftists that are using corruption to get ahead and fool "We the People."
The media is more worried about discrediting President Trump, then educating the public on the corruption in our elections. They would rather you be preoccupied with Russian Bots, then notice the real enemy right under your nose.
Wow, Report Just Out! Google manipulated from 2.6 million to 16 million votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016 Election! This was put out by a Clinton supporter, not a Trump Supporter! Google should be sued. My victory was even bigger than thought! @JudicialWatch
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 19, 2019
Trump's tweet likely referred to a 2017 paper published by the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology (AIBRT) suggesting that Clinton's popular vote margin was almost entirely attributable to pro-Clinton bias at Google.
"Extrapolating from the mathematics introduced in this report ... the lead author of the PNAS study [Epstein himself] predicted that a pro-Clinton bias in Google's search results would, over time, shift at least 2.6 million votes to Clinton. She won the popular vote in the November election by 2,864,974 votes," Epstein wrote with his co-author Ronald E. Robertson.
Google influenced 2018 midterms, shifted millions of votes to Dems – new research
We found very consistently that on Google they ended up with search results favoring liberals and favoring liberal news sources, and it was quite a dramatic effect.
Google flipped seats, shifted millions of votes to Dems in 2018 midterms, researcher tells RT
Google’s biased search algorithm actually flipped seats in the 2018 US midterm elections, according to a researcher who found the search engine’s “dramatically biased” results could have shifted over 78 million votes to Democrats.“Upwards of 25 percent of the national elections in the world are being decided without people’s knowledge by Google’s search algorithm,” senior research psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein of the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology told RT, calling the search engine the “deciding factor” in close races.
Epstein, who received his PhD in psychology from Harvard University and is the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today, said that his methodology was thorough and meticulous.
“We did this very, very carefully. We had field agents focusing on three congressional races in California which were very hotly contested races in Republican districts,” Epstein told RT.
“And we gave to these field agents about 500 election-related search terms. Each one had different search terms for different districts, where there are different issues, of course.
“And the point is, we simply looked at what kind of search results they received when they were conducting election-related searches.”
Epstein’s study of three 2018 California House races found Google played the deciding role in flipping those Republican-held seats to the Democrats, influencing millions of undecided voters by controlling what they saw when they searched 500 election-related terms. Google’s results showed a “significant liberal bias,” unlike Bing’s or Yahoo’s – and with 90 percent of the search engine’s market share in the US, that bias is enormously influential.
Search results favoring one side of an issue can influence anywhere from 20 to 80 percent of undecided voters, depending on the issue and demographic group, Epstein said. He has spent six years investigating the role of what he calls the Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME) in swaying public opinion, more recently focusing on the political ramifications by looking at various countries’ elections.
“People trust algorithmic output. They trust Google. They think because it’s generated by a computer, they don’t see the human hand - they think it’s impartial and objective and, because of that, their opinions change,” Epstein said.
Despite denials, Google has already faced hefty government fines for manipulating search results. In 2017, the European Union imposed a €2.4 billion ($2.7 billion) fine on the tech giant for purportedly tailoring search results to favor its own comparison shopping service.
Google was hit with a $21.1 million fine a year later – this time in India, where the company was accused of directing web users who were searching for flights to its own flight search page – depriving other businesses of gaining a foothold in the market.