A “liberal professor” and self-avowed “strong public supporter of Hillary Clinton” is warning that Google manipulated millions of votes for Clinton in 2016.
And he expects the company to go “all out” in 2020.
BizPacReview reported Robert Epstein made the comments to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution on July 16.
“You testified before this committee that Google’s manipulation of votes gave at least 2.6 million additional votes to Hillary Clinton in the year 2016, is that correct?” asked Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, at the hearing.
He confirmed that is correct, explaining it was done through biased search results.
“I believe in democracy. I believe in the free and fair election more than I have any kind of allegiance to a candidate or a party,” Epstein said.
In an interview with WND last December, Epstein – who was famed behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner’s last Ph.D. student at Harvard – said his peer-reviewed research over the past half decade shows that “not only does Google have the power to shift votes and opinions on a massive scale, they actually use that power.”
Epstein told the senators he expects Google could influence as many as 15 million votes next year.
“In 2020, if all these companies are supporting the same candidate there are 15 million votes on the line that can be shifted without people’s knowledge and without leaving a paper trail for authorities to trace,” the professor said.
He said that in 2018, Google and Facebook were more aggressive than they were in 2016.
“We have lots of data to support that, and in 2020 you can bet that all of these companies are going to go all out.”
Epstein said the methods of influence are invisible, subliminal and “more powerful than most any effects I’ve ever seen in the behavioral sciences.”
He explained that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, for example, could “send out a ‘Go Vote’ reminder just to Democrats on Election Day” and that wouldn’t cost him a dime.
Epstein told the senators that the 2.6 million figure for votes influenced by Facebook in 2016 was a “rock bottom” estimate.
It actually could be as high as 10.4 million.
Besides search engine manipulation, the company used search suggestion results and answer bots, he said.
Which means that, without the outside manipulation, Clinton might have lost the national “popular vote” as well as the Electoral College in 2016.
