{"id":1728451,"date":"2022-11-07T14:26:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1728451"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:33:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:33:16","slug":"google-influencing-elections-by-flipping-votes-on-massive-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-influencing-elections-by-flipping-votes-on-massive-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Influencing Elections by Flipping Votes on Massive Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgoogle-influencing-elections-by-flipping-votes-on-massive-scale%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1728451&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Google-Influencing-Elections-by-Flipping-Votes-on-Massive-Scale-Researcher-Claims.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Search giant Google has been accused of manipulating American citizens to influence the outcome of the November midterm elections, according to a psychologist researcher.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Robert Epstein and his research team from the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology have been studying and monitoring online political content sent to voters in swing states.<\/p>\n<p>The team is also investigating search engine results on Google and Bing tweets sent by Twitter, Gmail suppression, and auto-play videos suggested on Google-owned<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/youtube-demonetizes-journalist-for-calling-out-democrats-2016-election-denialism\/\"> YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The study found over 1.9 million \u201cephemeral experiences\u201d that Google was using to \u201cshift opinions and voting preferences,\u201d Epstein wrote in an <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/11\/06\/robert-epstein-2022-midterm-elections-google-bing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> for the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEphemeral experiences\u201d is a term for short-lived content which immediately disappears without leaving a trace after user consumption.<\/p>\n<p>As The Epoch Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/google-is-influencing-elections-by-flipping-votes-on-massive-scale-researcher_4846708.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The team expects such \u201cephemeral experiences\u201d to number over 2.5 million by Election Day. Epstein has identified roughly a dozen new forms of online manipulation using ephemeral experiences, which are almost exclusively controlled by Google and a few other tech firms.<\/p>\n<p>The impact created by the experiences is \u201cstunning,\u201d Epstein says.<\/p>\n<p>Search engine results that favor one political candidate were found to influence undecided voters so much that up to 80 percent of such people in some demographic groups shifted their voting preferences after only a single search.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cCarefully crafted search suggestions that flash at you while you are typing a search term can turn a 50\/50 split among undecided voters into a 90\/10 split with no one knowing they have been manipulated,\u201d Epstein writes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA single question-and-answer interaction on a digital personal assistant can shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by more than 40 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the 2022 election, \u201ca high level of liberal bias\u201d is being seen in Google search results in swing states like Arizona, Florida, and Wisconsin, Epstein wrote. Search results from Bing did not indicate such bias.<\/p>\n<p>In multiple swing states, liberal news sources make up 92 percent of auto-play videos being sent to YouTube users, which can potentially shift \u201chundreds of thousands of votes\u201d on Election Day, he warned.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Epstein and his team collected 1.5 million ephemeral experiences from 1,735 field agents who were \u201csufficient, in theory,\u201d to shift over 6 million votes to Joe Biden\u2019s favor. Epstein had supported Biden at the time, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He found that Google sent more voting reminders to moderates and liberals than conservatives, which Epstein calls a \u201cbrazen and powerful manipulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Google also \u201cturned off all manipulations\u201d in the 2020 Georgia Senate races after three Republican senators sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, which discussed Epstein\u2019s findings on manipulation (pdf). He pointed out political bias in Google search results \u201cdropped to zero\u201d after the letter.<\/p>\n<p>In an April<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/something-thats-frightening-dr-robert-epstein-warns-against-big-tech-manipulation_4395546.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> interview<\/a> with EpochTV\u2019s \u201cAmerican Thought Leaders,\u201d Epstein also talked about online platforms using surveys to \u201chelp\u201d users decide whom to vote for. In such surveys, users are given a quiz, and the platforms tell them how good a match they are for specific candidates.<\/p>\n<p>In an experiment, Epstein\u2019s team found that they could shift a significant number of people\u2019s voting preferences to the candidate that was presented as their best match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpinion matching is a fantastic way to manipulate people because you can shift people very, very, very dramatically, and they have no clue. They do not suspect any bias or manipulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that 96 percent of donations from Silicon Valley firms, including Google, go toward the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search giant Google has been accused of manipulating American citizens to influence the outcome of the November midterm elections, according to a psychologist researcher. 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