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HOW GOOGLE MANIPULATES SEARCH TO FAVOR LIBERALS AND TIP ELECTIONS

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Dr. Robert Epstein is tracking Google's bias in its search results. REUTERS


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While the focus has been on Twitter and Facebook’s censorship and liberal bias,
the worst Big Tech culprit of all has been getting a free pass — and now it’s
coming for our children.

That’s the warning from research psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein, a Californian
Democrat with a Harvard Ph.D, who has spent the last decade monitoring Google’s
manipulation of newsfeeds, search results and YouTube suggestions.

He shared his latest research with The Post when he was in New York this week to
raise donations for the next stage of his project.

Epstein’s research shows that Google has the power to change minds and move
elections to suit its liberal corporate worldview.

And despite regular protestations of innocence to Congress, the $1 trillion
multinational tech giant is using its virtual monopoly as a search engine to
elevate liberal views, stifle conservatives and manipulate the impressionable
minds of our children.


SHIFTING 6 MILLION VOTES

You thought Twitter and Facebook censoring The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop
stories was bad?

How about 6 million votes shifted to Joe Biden by Google in the 2020 election by
manipulating what we read and see online?

That’s the electoral impact Epstein, 69, claims Google secretly had in 2020,
using biased algorithms which skewed search results towards positive links for
Biden and negative links for Trump, as well as Get Out The Vote messaging on
Google’s home page targeted primarily at Democrat voters.

Preliminary results from Epstein’s new project, monitoring how Google’s massive
psy-op is targeting children through YouTube and other products, show liberal
bias is even more pervasive.

Epstein claims Google secretly had an electoral impact in 2020, using biased
algorithms which skewed search results towards positive links for Biden and
negative links for Trump.Reuters

For instance, he found that YouTube’s “Up Next” suggestions to adults for the
next video to watch were biased towards liberal sources 76% of the time.

But for children and teens, initial data from the past three months shows the
percentage of suggested videos on YouTube which come from liberal sources is
96%.

“That’s how aggressive they are with our kids,” he said this week. “Because they
think they’re gods. And no one has ever taken them to task, ever.”


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He did not evaluate the content of the suggested videos but used an average
ranking from three nonpartisan organizations which measure media bias to assign
liberal, conservative or centrist labels to the sources of the videos.

Out in the wilds of cyber space just 38% of video sources are liberal. The rest
are conservative or centrist. But YouTube wildly skews its content in favor of
the minority viewpoint.

While Epstein can’t tell you what exactly is in the videos being promoted to
children, it’s not hard to guess the sorts of toxic woke ideas being pushed,
thus normalizing the abnormal and rendering wholesome childhood fare the
outlier.

The problem for the average person trying to guard against the manipulation is
that you can’t catch Google in the act because its search results or YouTube
suggestions are “ephemeral,” meaning they disappear once you click off onto one
of the links provided, and can never be recovered.

It really is the perfect crime.

Epstein’s data will track Twitter, Google, Bing and Facebook. AFP via Getty
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CAPTURING DATA

But Epstein has developed a way to capture that ephemeral data by effectively
“looking over the shoulders” of real users, whom he calls field agents.

He now has 7,566 registered voters in all 50 states, who have given him
permission to monitor and record their every Google interaction, in much the
same way that Nielsen monitors TV ratings.

More recently he has added 1,600 children, aged 5 to 17, and has big plans to
expand his panel to more than 25,000 field agents of all ages and political
bents.

He says the best way to stop Google is to expose what they do, so he has built a
public dashboard which he hopes will go live later this year at
americasdigitalshield.org, in time for the 2024 election.

It will feature live tracking of bias on Google, YouTube, Facebook and Bing
using real time data from his field agents across the country.

It also will show how many estimated votes would be shifted based on the level
of bias.

Moderate Republicans are the most susceptible to having their minds changed, he
says.

Before the 2020 election Google CEO Sundar Pichai promised Congress: “Google
does not modify any products, including Search, to promote a particular
political viewpoint . . . [We] will not do so for the upcoming 2020 presidential
election.”

But he’s not fooling anyone. In terms of motive, Google is renowned for its
liberal bias.

You can see that in political donations by employees of Google, YouTube, and
other subsidiaries of parent company Alphabet which went 94 percent to Democrats
in 2016.

Hillary Clinton’s largest donor was Google/Alphabet.

Meta censored The Post’s Hunter Biden story. AP

Google’s boss of almost two decades, the $25 billion man, Eric Schmidt, played a
crucial role in Hillary’s campaign, as emails released by Wikileaks showed.

He also was Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign tech adviser. Obama’s analytics
director, Elan Kriegel, told psmag.com that he credited that tech team for up to
half of Obama’s four point winning margin in 2012: nearly 2.5 million votes.

A leaked video of a Google executive meeting after the 2016 election gives an
insight into the extreme partisan mindset of co-founders Larry Page and Sergey
Brin, CEO Sundar Pichai, and other bosses lamenting Trump’s win and vowing to do
better next time.


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CONFLICTING VALUES

Brin brands Trump supporters “extremists” and says the election outcome
“conflicts with many of [Google’s] values.”

In a portent of censorship to come, Pichai says “investments in machine learning
and AI” are a “big opportunity” to address what another employee describes as
“misinformation” shared by “low-information voters.”

CFO Ruth Porat promises Google will “use the great strength and resources and
reach we have to continue to advance really important values.”

Leaked emails after the 2016 election also indicated Google had a
get-out-the-vote effort with Hispanic voters in swing states in an effective
in-kind contribution to the Hillary Clinton campaign.

More leaked emails, published by the Wall Street Journal, show Google employees
in 2017 discussing ways to tweak search functions to change people’s views about
Trump’s travel bans, including prioritizing pro-immigration organizations “to
donate to” and “actively counter Islamophobic . . . results.”

Google subsequently claimed it did not follow through with the plan.

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What do you think? Post a comment.

But there is no doubt Google’s culture is monomaniacally liberal and that Google
executives have shown a willingness to use the power of their algorithms to
intervene in elections to change voters’ minds on a massive scale.

There is no reason to think it won’t happen again in 2024. Only Epstein is
standing in the way.




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