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2022-11-08 -Great Cultural Revolution

'Gurgle' Is Shifting Votes On A Massive Scale

Nudging.

[Daily Caller] A psychologist is accusing Google of manipulating American citizens to influence the outcome of the November midterm elections.

Robert Epstein and his research team from the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology have been monitoring online political content being sent to voters in swing states. As part of the research, the team is looking into search engine results on Google and Bing, messages displayed on Google’s homepage, tweets sent by Twitter, email suppression on Gmail, auto-play videos suggested on Google-owned YouTube, and so on.

The study found over 1.9 million "ephemeral experiences" that Google and other firms were using to "shift opinions and voting preferences," Epstein wrote in a Nov. 6 article for the Daily Caller. "Ephemeral experiences" are short-lived content that immediately disappears without leaving a trace after user consumption.
But wait! The good professor has a plan underway!
"Carefully 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," Epstein writes.

"A single question-and-answer interaction on a digital personal assistant can shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by more than 40 percent."
Fortunately, Rantburgers are not undecided.
Ahead of the 2022 election, "a high level of liberal bias" 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.
Bing must have yet-undetected means of bias.
In multiple swing states, liberal news sources make up 92 percent of auto-play videos being sent to YouTube users, which can potentially shift "hundreds of thousands of votes" on Election Day, he warned.

Back in 2020, Epstein and his team collected 1.5 million ephemeral experiences from 1,735 field agents which were "sufficient, in theory," to shift over 6 million votes to Joe Biden’s favor. Epstein had supported Biden at the time, he said.

He found that Google sent more voting reminders to moderates and liberals than conservatives, which Epstein calls a "brazen and powerful manipulation."
Well, I never said Gurgle was stoopid.
Google also "turned off all manipulations" in the 2020 Georgia Senate races after three Republican senators sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai which discussed Epstein’s findings on manipulation (pdf). Political bias in Google search results "dropped to zero" after the letter, he pointed out.
Or they altered their methods.
In an April interview with EpochTV’s "American Thought Leaders," Epstein also talked about online platforms using surveys to "help" 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.

In an experiment, Epstein’s team found that they were able to shift a significant number of people’s voting preferences to the candidate that was presented as being their best match.
Amazing! The computer helped me to decide to vote (D)!
"Opinion 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 kind of bias or manipulation."

About 96 percent of donations from Silicon Valley firms, including Google, go toward the Democratic Party, he added.
Now that's news you can use!

Posted by Bobby 2022-11-08 08:39|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 Interesting. See, came across an ad for a Big Food company who used to advertise a special 5 for $5 sandwiches. This used to be good for a couple meals.

Today, bragging about their special, it is now 4 for $10 and I'm telling you, last time I ate there it was more bread than filling.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-11-08 10:20|| 2022-11-08 10:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh, another Big Food place makes the Making Hay off Bad Economy, this one sells chicken.

"Our box meal is still $6!!!" No reason to yell about it other than expenses keep going up.

And is it the same size? Fast food place I try to eat at on a yearly trip had little potato things, a big size was about 2 cups worth. Now, it is 1 cup. Menu item sizes remain, but prices are up 30-50% depending on ingredients.

But I'm just seeing things right. Supposed to rejoice my gasoline is only 2x more than it used to be instead of 2.5x.

But a talking paperclip makes me forget Da Governess tried shutting down my business on sending the National Guard to take over meat processing, choke agricultural activities.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-11-08 10:31|| 2022-11-08 10:31|| Front Page Top

#3 *Yawn* Subliminal conditioning is so 1960s Pop Psychology.

Posted by magpie 2022-11-08 14:56|| 2022-11-08 14:56|| Front Page Top

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