Dr Robert Epstein paper on manipulated search results
The search engine manipulation effect (SEME) and its possible impact on the outcomes of elections
http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/112/33/E4512.full.pdf
How Google Could Rig the 2016 Election - Politico, very left leaning
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/how-google-could-rig-the-2016-election-121548
Dr Robert Epstein, Berkeley, liberal btw not conservative
Google algorithms were manipulated to favour Hillary.
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According to his research the most vulnerable demographic to this manipulation was moderate conservatives
He's correct of course, google manipulates the results of searches based on partisan politics. This has been known for quite some time.
The paper above is 2014, his research since has proven google were actively trying to get Hillary elected simply by analysing other search engine results compared to google. Other search engines like Bing returned what people were searching for, Google returned positive Hillary results consistently as top ranked.
I know google do this with science too, I've done my own research on that.
2 sites are an example, one left leaning one right leaning.
Right leaning site gets millions of hits in traffic per month, it is the most viewed blog on that topic in the world (received several top science blog on the internet awards) Does open peer review of papers, where scientists contribute
Left leaning site. Fraction of the traffic, no awards and has been embroiled in several scandals.
This pertains to scientific information in graphic form.
The left leaning site (even today) comes up in searches in images on google at a 1000\1 ratio compared to the much more successful right leaning site.
In fact for most searches, to find data from the right leaning site, I had to use the name of the site in the search
This was not true for the left leaning site, I would not use the name, and it's graphs were top of all the searches, actually multiple returns for that site per search.
The problem with Google is, it knows you. Your smart phone knows you better than almost anyone you know (on average). This is a fact.
Google collects so much information about you that it can manipulate you.
Google has become a major problem.
This has nothing to do with the gay partisan dishonest nonsense gibberish on this thread.
It's also a sad indictment of current public discourse that I have to provide left leaning sources for such things. Really sad
I have nowhere else to post this, so here it goes