2016 - "Google has the ability to drive millions of votes to a candidate with no one the wiser"

[Wwcd]

Considering ALPHABET Exec is stepping down, Eric Garland twitter presents this conversation & an Article from Politico 2016
https://mobile.twitter.com/ericgarland/status/943973226010546177?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/how-google-could-rig-the-2016-election-121548

2016
How Google Could Rig the 2016 Election
Google has the ability to drive millions of votes to a candidate with no one the wiser.
By ROBERT EPSTEIN August 19, 2015

America’s next president could be eased into office not just by TV ads or speeches, but by Google’s secret decisions, and no one—except for me and perhaps a few other obscure researchers—would know how this was accomplished.

Research I have been directing in recent years suggests that Google, Inc., has amassed far more power to control elections—indeed, to control a wide variety of opinions and beliefs—than any company in history has ever had.

Google’s search algorithm can easily shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by 20 percent or more—up to 80 percent in some demographic groups—with virtually no one knowing they are being manipulated,
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Interesting Read, knowing what we do today.

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[alarimer]

2. I worry more about Facebook.

The seem oblivious to the fake news that pervades the site and Zuckerberg insists that they are not a media platform so they don't have to abide by those rules. But they are and they should.

[Wwcd]

3. Oh definately FB. Here's a story about my 86 yr old Aunt & FB

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Near the end of the campaign, my Aunt, age 86, was a Hillary supporter.
She has many friends & family & a FB page well monitored by her 6 grown daughters.
This quiet, gracious woman posted one day, her hope for a 1st woman President.
By that night her FB had been hit with nasty hate messages against Hillary, & her for supporting HRC.
some were actually young family members stating Trump with the fist raised Heil Hitler sign.
Some were BSanders people with some of the most vile, hateful words for this 86 yr old woman who saw her husband, cousins, friends march off to WW2 & tho never vocal about politics as I knew her to be, she spoke up on behalf of a woman President who came with exceptional credentials.

Her daughters suspended their mom's FB page thus cutting off all ties to her family communicatuon.

The creepiest thing about this event was that many who posted lies, hate, & called this gentle woman the F word in every post, were from people she had never heard of.

Back to your point, yes FB was a horror show as were every online forum.

The money made by keeping the Hillary Hate going second per second, everwhere online, was the reason we fight as we do today.

[alarimer]

4. There may be settings on FB so that only her friends can see what she posts.

I'm not entirely sure how private you can make your posts (obviously not completely), but I usually only post things my friends can see.

But still, FB is terrible in many ways and that's just one of them.