[ May 4, 2024 ]
A new study conducted by a team of researchers at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology shows Google can actually manipulate the large majority of voters by returning negative search results.
Basically, all Google censors have to do is affix a negative suggestion to a candidate’s name — and a positive to another chosen candidate’s name.
The findings are significant because they put numbers and evidence to what conservatives have long known — that the liberal-leaning anti-Republican, anti-conservative, anti-Donald Trumpers in social media are on an all-courts-press to stifle voices that counter their progressive goals.
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From Breitbart:
By inserting negative search suggestions under the name of a candidate, search engines like Google can shift the opinions of undecided voters by up to 43.4 percent, according to new research by a team at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology and reported exclusively by Breitbart News.
The lead author of the study, Dr. Robert Epstein, has previously conducted research into what he calls the Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME). This research showed that the manipulation of results pages in search engines can shift the voting preferences of undecideds by anywhere between 20 and 80 percent, depending on the demographic.
His latest research looks at how search engines can affect voters by suggesting negative or positive search terms when a political candidate’s name is entered into the search bar. Dr. Epstein’s research found that when negative search terms are suggested for a candidate, it can have a dramatic effect on voter opinion.
From the study:
The voting preferences of participants who saw no search suggestions shifted toward the favored candidate by 37.1%. The voting preferences of participants in the search suggestion groups who saw only positive search suggestions shifted similarly (35.6%). However, the voting preferences of participants who saw three positive search suggestions and one negative search suggestion barely shifted (1.8%); this occurred because the negative search suggestion attracted more than 40% of the clicks (negativity bias). In other words, a single negative search suggestion can impact opinions dramatically. Participants who were shown four negative suggestions (and no positives) shifted away from the candidate shown in the search bar (-43.4%).
The researchers conclude that by using this method of manipulation, search engines can shift a “50/50 split split among people who are undecided on an issue to a 90/10 split without people’s awareness and without leaving a paper trail for authorities to follow.”
The conclusions are based on 16 months of experiments conducted with a total of 1,800 people from all 50 U.S. states. Participants in the study came from diverse ideological backgrounds, including liberal, conservative, and moderate. In order to control prior biases, participants were asked to judge political candidates that they were unfamiliar with.
Further on in the paper, the researchers reference allegations of search suggestion manipulation made against Google during the 2016 election, when the tech giant appeared to be suppressing negative search suggestions for Hillary Clinton while allowing negative suggestions for Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders to remain.
The research also notes discrepancies with Google’s current search suggestions, particularly with regards to its commercial interests. For example, entering “G” into the search bar in Google will instantly provide users with suggestions to click on search terms about other Google products – Gmail, Google Maps, Google Drive, and others.
The resarchers also found a recurring pattern of major brands being favored in Google search suggestions if they were financially linked to Google. The top search suggestions for “a” is Amazon – Google’s top client on Google Adwords, the company’s digital advertising service. The top search suggestion for “t” is Target – Google’s third-biggest advertising client.
According to the research summary, “The same pattern occurs for other major advertisers on Google, among them Best Buy, Home Depot, Lowe’s, and Zillow.”
“The only companies that are shortchanged by this arrangement are those with names beginning with ‘g.’”
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23 Comments
6 years ago
Pamela has been making the case in the past year that Goole, Facebook, et al are the public square today and that, as such, their control cannot be left purely to the wishes of those companies. This is simply further evidence to support that case.
6 years ago
I miss card catalogs.
6 years ago
A lack of discernment, non-adherence to righteous moral standards and a short memory of past failures and bad choices at the ballot box can swing 100% of ANY voting group who chooses to vote in favor of a self-centered ideology versus what is best for the survival of the nation.
The greatest enemy in the nation is not Pelosi, Hillary or some other you name it on the Far Left. The enemy is US when we make bad choices (NOT the same as mistakes)!
6 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
The 26th Amendment was one of the greatest mistakes ever committed in this country.
6 years ago
A lack of discernment, non-adherence to righteous moral standards and a short memory of past failures and bad choices at the ballot box can swing 100% of ANY voting group who chooses to vote in favor of a self-centered ideology versus what is best for the survival of the nation.
The greatest enemy in the nation is not Pelosi, Hillary or some other you name it on the Far Left. The enemy is US when we make bad choices (NOT the same as mistakes)!
6 years ago
That’s why it’s Duck Duck Go. Download this search engine and know what it’s like to actually be given an inclusion of conservatives websites that match your searches. Absolutely free of google chains of slavery. Nothing is perfect but this is so close it actually hits the sweet spot of freedom.
D
6 years ago
Already affecting the 2018 elections.
6 years ago
Then it is up to decent politicians to make sure voters know who to vote for without having to be influenced by google.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
On his radio show, Mark Levin recommends using duckduckgo.com instead of gooble for searches because they “supposedly” don’t track you like gooble. I’ve been using it for 2 or 3 weeks, haven’t used gooble once, and I’m totally satisified with it. It looks a lot like gooble.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Most likely only millennials will be truly affected by Google’s subconscious manipulations, they are very emotional and easily susceptible to liberal indoctrination. My generation is pretty hopeless. 🙁
6 years ago
As stark and polarized as the political climate is these days, it is more accurate to call an undecided voter an indecisive one. You could not get them to agree that apple pie is good.
6 years ago
Big Brother is constantly watching and trying to influence us, Google and Facebook are one and the same.
6 years ago
THE NAZIS WOULD HAVE ABSOLUTELY LOVED GOOGLE…Think of the power Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels would have had…
D
6 years ago
I know this is a little off topic, but there may be another form of manipulation going around in Canada and by the FBI in the U.S. The toronto ramming attacvk that killed 10 people has them saying the perp’s family is Christian, but they haven’t given the religion of their perp. Also, the authorities say the motive cannot be determined. I wonder if this will be the new paradigm for Islamic terror attacks, instead of saying the terrorist or whatever is mentally ill, they say the motive cannot be determined. I haven’;t heard what Rebel Media said about the attack and I am waiting for their report.
6 years ago
Reply to
Underzog
I haven’t heard Christians being blamed for that attack. I have read that he was “special needs” guy – which I doubt. I read it on FOX news. For some odd reason I can’t find a link to it.
6 years ago
Yeah, these are lying ufkers that said, DO NO EVIL!! Why you ufkcing liars…….
6 years ago
How can it be that people can be so easily swayed KNOWING what Google, Facebook, Twitter and others are doing!
6 years ago
What is the SWAMP doing about this?
Feigned outrage? Ignoring it?
I despise Goldman Sachs owned, career poltician, DisTrusTed but I did hear he was upset over this.
Will he DO something about it? Or just talk about it?
He is the annoying one in the swamp but he is part of the swamp!
Make no mistake about that. How he conducted himself during the primary and afterwards was atrocious.
Maybe he will do something since he is a career politician.
Exclusive – Ted Cruz: Use Antitrust Laws to Break ‘Massive Power’ of Tech Lords to ‘Subvert Our Democratic Process’
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D
6 years ago
No wonder they are still “undecided”.
6 years ago
“Undecided voters” – those who should not have business in voting. Truly we must believe that because of them fate of the nation depends? That they are searching Google at al. (opinion of others) on how to think and act?
6 years ago
Reply to
Patriotic American
That is a good idea but if they don’t have accurate information, age won’t matter. Most people don’t attend rallies and depend on the news to form their views and who they vote for.
6 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
18-24 year olds are the worst in that regard. They are among the highest percentage of attendants of rent-a-mobs paid for by Soros and his ilk.
