{"id":75716,"date":"2015-09-27T07:48:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T15:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=75716"},"modified":"2015-09-27T07:48:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T15:48:20","slug":"could-google-control-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=75716","title":{"rendered":"Could Google Control Elections?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Politico<\/a>: Research I have been directing in recent years suggests that Google, Inc., has amassed far more power to control elections\u2014indeed, to control a wide variety of opinions and beliefs\u2014than any company in history has ever had. Google\u2019s search algorithm can easily shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by 20 percent or more\u2014up to 80 percent in some demographic groups\u2014with virtually no one knowing they are being manipulated, according to experiments I conducted recently with Ronald E. Robertson .<\/p>\n

Given that many elections are won by small margins, this gives Google the power, right now, to flip upwards of 25 percent of the national elections worldwide. In the United States, half of our presidential elections have been won by margins under 7.6 percent, and the 2012 election was won by a margin of only 3.9 percent\u2014well within Google\u2019s control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Politico: Research I have been directing in recent years suggests that Google, Inc., has amassed far more power to control elections\u2014indeed, to control a wide variety of opinions and beliefs\u2014than any company in history has ever had. Google\u2019s search … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t