Big Tech voter manipulations?

 Breitbart:

Research psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein is launching America’s Digital Shield, a website that exposes Big Tech meddling in the 2024 elections through real-time “ephemeral manipulation” that can shift millions of votes.

Epstein announced the release of a “public data dashboard” that shows how Big Tech giants like Google, Bing, and Yahoo are manipulating online content to influence votes in the elections, according to a press release sent to Breitbart News.

The new public dashboard, named America’s Digital Shield can be viewed here.

The findings presented by Epstein, a Harvard-trained senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology (AIBRT), raise concerns about the integrity of the democratic process amid Big Tech corporations’ ability to wield unparalleled amounts of power with regards to public consumption of online content.

“If we don’t stop them, Google alone will be able to shift between 6.4 and 25.5 million votes in the 2024 Presidential election,” Epstein said.

The findings are based on “a sophisticated proprietary monitoring system his research team has been developing since 2016” that tracks “ephemeral experiences,” which are “short-lived online content that can alter perceptions and behaviors before disappearing without a trace,” the press release explained.

This content includes search results, news feeds, video recommendations, and other temporary online content that normally disappears forever, but that is now being preserved, archived, and analyzed by the “Digital Shield” that Epstein and his team have developed.

Notably, these manipulations are powerful enough to shift voting preferences of undecided voters by up to 80 percent after just one exposure, with the potential to shift millions of votes in aggregate, Epstein said.

“This system is how — for the first time ever — we have finally made the Big Tech companies accountable to the public,” Epstein said. “We know from a smaller system we set up in 2020 that when these companies know they’re being monitored, they back down.”

“Permanent, large-scale monitoring systems are the only way to stop Big Tech companies from manipulating our elections, undermining our democracy, and indoctrinating our children,” the research psychologist added. “Laws and regulations — if they’re ever enacted at all — will never stop them. Only monitoring makes their activities transparent 24 hours a day. Only monitoring can stop them.”
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Since Big Tech is mostly controlled by liberals, I suspect that most of their manipulations are used to help Democrat candidates.  It may explain why a loser like Joe Biden got elected.

See also:

Alarming Election Interference! Big Tech Censors Biden Opponents 162 Times

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 Big Tech manipulated the message of all 2024 presidential candidates at least once, but far and away, Big Tech chose to focus its ire on incumbent Democrat President Joe Biden’s opponents. MRC researchers recorded a total of 169 cases of censorship against the 2024 presidential primary candidates to date in MRC’s exclusive CensorTrack.org database. A total of 162 of those cases of censorship were against Biden’s opponents. From censoring candidates’ campaign websites, to fact checks, to removing content and accounts altogether, social media platforms have been hard at work interfering in the upcoming election and silencing the voices of those who seek to represent and lead the United States. Big Tech censorship impacted the accounts of all 23 candidates that MRC has been tracking regardless of party affiliation, but it has been particularly harmful for Biden’s opponents.

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