BigTech’s Invisible Election Manipulation Machine | Epoch Times

Robert Epstein has been researching and looking at how the biggest tech companies influence human behavior, and conducting extensive monitoring projects of bias in these companies’ products, with a particular focus on Google.

Epstein, a senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology in California, called his findings “frightening” because of the tech companies’ ability to manipulate behavior on a global level.

“They hold in their hands the power to change thinking behavior on a massive scale, the power in close elections anyway, to pick the winner in the country after country after country,” Epstein told Epoch TV’s “American Thought Leaders” host Jan Jekielek during a recent interview.

Epstein said that Google’s search engine shifted 2.6 million to 10.4 million votes to Hillary Clinton over a period of months before the 2016 election, and later shifted at least 6 million votes to Joe Biden and other Democrats.

“We calculated at one point that as of 2015, upwards of 25 percent of the national elections in the world were being controlled, being determined, by Google’s search algorithm,” he said.

Epstein is making these comments after conducting rigorous studies, spanning almost a decade, and managing to document ephemeral experiences of manipulation on Google and other companies’ platforms.

He said fleeting experiences, such as a flashing newsfeed, a search result, or a suggested video, are the ideal form of brainwashing because they aren’t recorded and are hard to document.

“They affect us, they disappear, they’re stored nowhere, and they’re gone,” Epstein said. “People have no idea they’re being manipulated, number one, and number two, authorities can’t go back in time to see what people were being shown, in other words, how they were being manipulated.”

One of his team’s recent experiments includes randomly assigning people to groups, with search results favoring candidate A in one group and favoring candidate B in the other. The idea was to shift the participants’ voting preference, which Epstein thought would be for about three percent of the participants.

“Very first experiment we ever ran on this, we shifted voting preferences by more than 40 percent. So I thought that’s impossible, that can’t be repeated. The experiment with another group got a shift of more than 60 percent. So I realized, wait a minute, maybe I’ve stumbled on something here.”

These findings are the greatest discovery in the behavioral and social sciences in over 100 years, according to Epstein, who said his next step is to track the influence operation on a much larger scale. He believes systematic unmasking of their mind-control techniques will neuter their ability to interfere with our democracy, our lives, and our children.

“This is the solution, which is permanent, large-scale monitoring 24 hours a day in all 50 states, doing to them what they do to us and our kids. If we do it to them, if we monitor, we capture, we archive and we expose, OK, then they will stay out of our lives.”

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Obama, Hillary, and the Atlantic went around the country this week blatantly saying it is time to censor the Internet harder. Elon Musk is the one standing up for freedom of speech.

I told you they would try to steal it from Le Pen!! ⬇️

Oh where have we seen this before
HT: Marcel P

Do you know why the Left is trying so hard to ban guns & to censor/stop Americans from talking about 1776…?

Because they’re scared to death of 1776 repeating.

Don't forget.

Governor debate tonight.

Should be a livestream link.

7pm

https://www.wsbtv.com/station/programming/wsb-tv-hosts-debate-featuring-republican-candidates-georgia-governor/TDK3GHPFQZA4TKOWVBBHPFR7PA/

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1518319735313739777.html

A thread I did today on what narrative I see building.

These are points I am trying to connect.

All this talk about misinformation...
What are they going to do with it?

That is the question

The most locked down city in America with the most stringent gun control in America.

It tells me the Left fears guns because of the chance of another #1776 not because of crime.

There was a mass shooting in DC *this week* that the shooter even livestreamed and the media has completely buried it bc it didnt fit the narrative

Out of the gate 2000 mules.
Kemp says they needed the WB b4 Investigating



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Perdue keeps asking about Buckhead city.

Kemp keeps saying it's a Legislature issue.

David says the Leg follows his lead

Specifically asked each of them if they support it

Perdue says yes.
Kemp will not answer.