Silicon Valley More Helpful than the Kremlin?

For John, BLUF:  If you don't read widely and distrust everyone you just don't understand how serious the situation is.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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New Movie Claims Google Handed the Popular Vote to Hillary Clinton in 2016

From PJ Media, by Reporter Tyler O'Neil, 23 September 2018.

Here is the lede plus two:

When Donald Trump surprised the world by winning the 2016 election, liberals clung to the idea that his victory was illegitimate because Hillary Clinton won the popular vote.  According to a psychologist who supported Clinton in 2016, however, Google's bias in Clinton's favor may remove even that symbolic victory from her.

Almost all of Clinton's popular vote margin could be attributed to Google bias, making her win "negligible." Dr. Robert Epstein, a psychologist who earned his Ph.D. at Harvard, actually reported this finding last year, but he explains how it works in the upcoming film "The Creepy Line."

Epstein made a stir in 2015 by reporting in Politico that Google could "rig" the 2016 election.  This story discussed the results of his study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).  That study found that "biased search ranking can easily shift the voting preferences of undecided voters from 20% or more — up to 80% in some demographic groups."

Wait, the folks we should be investigating is "Google?

I wonder what they think of the Electoral College?  Does the Electoral College, at least today, help negate this "Google" advantage?

The thing that is really worrying to me is the work Google is doing with the People's Republic of China, to censor and manipulate the Internet.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff