Boyd Carter
A flood of political content has been found that is being sent to voters in swing states through more than 2,500 computers owned by a politically-diverse group of registered voters showing concerning election interference. Independent media is reporting on the story while the corporate media is ignoring the emerging information. ‘We are aggregating and analyzing search results on the Google and Bing search engines, messages displayed on Google’s home page, autoplay videos suggested on YouTube, tweets sent to users by the Twitter company (as opposed to tweets sent by other users), email suppression on Gmail, and more,’ The Dail Caller
Data Scientist Catches Google in Massive Scheme To Shift Votes (republicbrief.com)
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Quoting from the article: “These new forms of influence are stunning in their impact. Search results that favor one candidate (in other words, that lead people who click on high-ranking results to web pages that glorify that candidate) can shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by up to 80 percent in some demographic groups after a single search. 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. A single question-and-answer interaction on a digital personal assistant can shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by more than 40 percent.”