Election Interference: Google Manipulated Millions of Votes for Hillary
Clinton’s popular vote margin was almost entirely attributable to pro-Clinton bias at Google.
by Tyler O'Neil
August 20, 2019
On Monday morning (8/19), President Donald Trump shared the results of a study showing that Hillary Clinton’s margin of victory in the popular vote in the 2016 election could be explained by Google bias.
The study’s author, Ph.D. psychologist Robert Epstein, was himself a Clinton supporter in 2016, but he is concerned about Google’s power to manipulate elections.
Trump’s tweet likely referred to a 2017 white paper published by the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology (AIBRT) suggesting that Clinton’s popular vote margin was almost entirely attributable to pro-Clinton bias at Google.
“Extrapolating from the mathematics introduced in this report … the lead author of the PNAS study [Epstein himself] predicted that a pro-Clinton bias in Google’s search results would, over time, shift at least 2.6 million votes to Clinton. She won the popular vote in the November election by 2,864,974 votes,” Epstein wrote with his co-author Ronald E. Roberts…
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