Dr. Robert Epstein was in front of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution on Tuesday. His analysis of the impact of Google on US elections is frightening.
Dr. Epstein discussed Google’s real threat to democracy. Something we have been saying at the Gateway Pundit for years –
2. Dr. Robert Epstein, a research psychologist & Harvard Ph.D has researched extensively
on Google's power to suppress content, its massive surveillance apparatus and its
unprecedented ability to manipulate thoughts and behavior of more than 2.5 billion
people worldwide.— Rising serpent 🇺🇸 (@rising_serpent) July 18, 2019
Dr. Epstein is a Democrat yet he shared his observations knowing the impact on the US –
4. Dr. Epstein writes: "No private company should have either the right or the power to manipulate large populations without their knowledge". With due respect to Dr. Epstein, one doesn't need a Ph.D to know that. Potted plants know that (and use DuckDuckGo)
— Rising serpent 🇺🇸 (@rising_serpent) July 18, 2019
To no one’s surprise Google’s search results were in favor of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election –
6. Google search results – which dominate search in the U.S. and worldwide – were significantly biased in
favor of Hillary Clinton in all 10 positions on the first page of search results in both blue states and red states.— Rising serpent 🇺🇸 (@rising_serpent) July 18, 2019
Very few people can detect the bias (we certainly can) –
8. Even the very few people who can detect bias in search results shift farther in the direction of the bias, so merely being able to see the bias doesn’t
protect you from it.— Rising serpent 🇺🇸 (@rising_serpent) July 18, 2019
Biased search results can alter the opinion of millions (without Google and the MSM Hillary would have gotten beat 100,000,000 to 0 ) –
10. Epstein elucidates further: "Bear in mind here that all Google search results are, in a sense, biased. There are no equal-time rules built into Google algorithm. It always puts one widget ahead of
another – and one candidate ahead of another" pic.twitter.com/wJyfNMbOUh— Rising serpent 🇺🇸 (@rising_serpent) July 18, 2019
On election day 2016 Google helped Hillary obtain up to an estimated 4.6 million more votes –
12. On Election Day in 2018, the “Go Vote” reminder Google displayed on its home page gave the Democrat party between 800,000 and 4.6 million more votes than it gave the other party. As fantastical as that sounds, Epstein published a paper on it. https://t.co/75R6uIHG3o
— Rising serpent 🇺🇸 (@rising_serpent) July 18, 2019
Google helped Democrats in the 2018 election through biased results as well –
14. This number is based on data
captured by Epstein's monitoring system, which preserved more than 47,000 election searches on Google, Bing, and Yahoo, along with the nearly 400,000 web pages to which the search results linked. Strong Dem leaning political bias was evident.— Rising serpent 🇺🇸 (@rising_serpent) July 18, 2019
Google likely has determined elections (except 2016) since 2015 –
https://twitter.com/rising_serpent/status/1151671237413867520
Google is much more effective than ads –
18. "Ads and news stories are competitive and visible, like billboards. The kinds of ephemeral effects I am studying, however, are invisible and non-competitive. They are controlled entirely by Big Tech companies, and there is no way to counteract them."
— Rising serpent 🇺🇸 (@rising_serpent) July 18, 2019
Google basically determines what you read –
20. "The problem with Google is not that
it censors conservatives; the problem is that it has the power to determine what content billions of people worldwide will or not see. No single entity – especially a private company not accountable to the public – should have such power"— Rising serpent 🇺🇸 (@rising_serpent) July 18, 2019
Elections are not free and fair due to Google –
22. "To let Big Tech get away with subliminal manipulation on this scale would be to make the free and fair election meaningless." pic.twitter.com/r4bJdxnK0j
— Rising serpent 🇺🇸 (@rising_serpent) July 18, 2019
The only way conservatives win is to eliminate voter fraud and have candidates that are so incredible (i.e. Donald Trump) with all the right positions that they cannot lose (no one could have beaten Hillary other than Trump) –
@DrREpstein thank you for your brilliant and untiring efforts. We're poles apart in terms of our political persuasions, but both of us believe strongly in free and fair elections. And that's the genius of the great American Republic.
"We the people" doesn't include Google.— Rising serpent 🇺🇸 (@rising_serpent) July 18, 2019
Bets are that most Republican politicians have no idea what is going on. Many are riding the Trump wave and think that they won because of their personal charisma or policies. In reality, many were carried by Trump. To this day however many Republicans don’t support the greatest President in our lifetime who is able to withstand more attacks from more angles than any politician in history. In spite of the Mueller witch hunt, Speakers Ryan and Pelosi, Obama Judges, the highly corrupt FBI, DOJ, State Department and CIA, the Deep State crooks in all government agencies, the horribly biased media and socials, Trump is not just surviving, but he’s thriving.
The issue with Google that Dr. Epstein doesn’t even address is its use of web ads. Google places top paying ads with liberals and low paying ads with conservatives (if any at all). Conservatives are labeled “undesirables” by Google and targeted in their pocket book. Google is getting away with this as well.
Many conservative websites have had to shut down due to loss of traffic from the socials and loss of revenues from Google and Facebook in web ads. It is absolutely a must that this be addressed.
