Wednesday, July 26, 2023

'The Perfect Crime': Has Google Taken Over Election Results?

Tristan Harris, a former "Design ethicist" at Google, says that he was a member of a team at the company, whose job it was to influence "a billion people's attention and thoughts every day." Jaron Lanier, a computer scientist and one of the early investors in Google and Facebook, claims that Big Tech content has "Morphed into continuous behavior modification on a mass basis." Another early investor in these companies, the prominent author and venture capitalist Roger McNamee, has said that he now regrets having financed them, and asserts that they constitute "a menace to public health and to democracy."

Google can also repeat these manipulations many times over a period of months prior to an election.

Google also knows exactly who is vulnerable to these manipulations - who is still undecided before Election Day, for example - so they can target and bombard just the right people on a massive scale 24 hours a day.

If, in 2024, 158 million people cast ballots, as they did in 2020, it means Google could likely shift the votes of between 6.4 and 25.5 million people, thereby easily controlling the outcome of any election in which the projected win margin is less than 4%. No laws or regulations are in place to stop them, but our monitoring can.

On November 5, 2020, three U.S. Senators sent a strong warning letter to the CEO of Google expressing concern about the extreme political bias our monitoring system had detected in the days leading up to the presidential election - bias sufficient to have shifted at least 6 million votes to Joe Biden.

As a result, Google immediately shut down its election manipulations in the two upcoming Senate runoff elections in Georgia.

Go-vote reminders ceased, and so did bias in Google search results. 

https://www.technocracy.news/the-perfect-crime-has-google-taken-over-election-results/

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