This is how Google controls the results to favor the left
Google uses search results, recommendations and other means to systematically favor people on the political left and disfavor the right. New research shows that, reports the New York Post.
Most people who have used Google to search the subject of politics have probably noticed the trend. If you google for people on the right, the most negative results and often pure slander, preferably written by the person’s political opponents, come up.
When you search for left-wing politicians, you instead get positive or neutral results.
Psychology professor Robert Epstein is himself both a left-wing sympathizer, a Jew and has a doctorate from the left-liberal Harvard University. But he is concerned about how Google is using its enormous power to manipulate people’s political opinions and thereby influence election results, the New York Post reports.
He has spent the past decade monitoring the US internet giant’s manipulation of news feeds, search results and suggested videos on YouTube.
According to Robert Epstein’s calculations, for example, Google managed to give Joe Biden about 6 million extra votes in the 2020 election by manipulating the search results with positive links about Biden and negative links about Donald Trump. Also contributing to this was Google’s campaign to get people to go and vote, a campaign that was mainly aimed at left-wing voters.
On YouTube, the manipulation is extremely clear, Epstein’s research shows. And it is especially children who are the targets of the propaganda.
For example, he has found that YouTube’s “next video” suggestions for adults come from left-wing sources 76 percent of the time.
But for children and teenagers, initial data from the last three months shows that the percentage of suggested videos on YouTube that come from left-wing sources is a whopping 96 percent.
– They are so aggressive towards our children, because they consider themselves gods. And no one has ever held them accountable, never, says Robert Epstein.
Epstein uses in his research real users, whom he calls “field workers”. Currently, he has 7,566 registered voters across the United States who have given him permission to monitor and record all of their Google interactions.
Recently, he added 1,600 children ages 5 to 17 among those whose Google use he monitors, and Epstein plans to expand his panel to more than 25,000 “field workers” of all ages and with all possible political views.