By Sean Walton
Renowned psychologist Robert Epstein blew the lid off Big Tech’s censorship and voter manipulation during his July Senate testimony, and now he’s shifting focus to the woman who gained the most from the scam in 2016.
.@HillaryClinton, whom I have strongly supported for many years, told blatant lies about me today. As a result, I have been subjected to widespread condemnation by mainstream media. I’m going to fight this. Stay tuned tomorrow for my first-ever twitter storm. pic.twitter.com/CrPHMycVBu
— Dr. Robert Epstein (@DrREpstein) August 20, 2019
The dust-up follows Epstein’s recent testimony in the Senate regarding years of research into a variety of ways Google, Facebook and other tech companies record information about users to manipulate their behavior and cash in on the data.
Trump highlighted the research that showed Google shifted millions of voters for Hillary Clinton in 2016, and the company is now working to create a much bigger impact on the 2020 election. And Tom Fitton, President of Judicial Watch, responded with a tweet linking to the research that Trump was referring to in his tweet.
Here is analysis/testimony on @Google‘s impact on our elections to which President @RealDonaldTrump is referencing, and which Hillary Clinton and this era’s totalitarian left are now trying to suppress. Read and RT. @drrepstein https://t.co/FmpCGzdHTshttps://t.co/RKDalw5Cpi
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) August 21, 2019
Hillary Clinton also responded to Trump’s tweet calling it a “debunked study”.
The debunked study you’re referring to was based on 21 undecided voters. For context that’s about half the number of people associated with your campaign who have been indicted. https://t.co/0zHnWvGjSv
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 19, 2019
Epstein, former editor of Psychology Today and acclaimed psychologist who founded the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, testified in a subcommittee for the Senate Judiciary Committee in July about years of data and research that shows Big Tech companies including Google and Facebook are manipulating voters in favor of Democrats.
Epstein described himself as a “very strong public supporter of Hillary Clinton,” but he said the influence of Google, Facebook, Twitter and other sites threatens American Democracy.
“So you’re not dismayed that people voted for (Clinton), your testimony is that Google is through bias in search results manipulating voters in a way that they’re not aware of?” Sen. Ted Cruz questioned at the senate hearing.
“On a massive scale,” Epstein said, “and what I’m saying is that I believe in Democracy, I believe in the free and fair election, more than I have any kind of allegiance to a candidate or a party.”
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Epstein detailed some of the many ways – from total control over search results and quick-answer results, to voting reminders and other tactics – that Big Tech swayed “a rock bottom minimum” of 2.6 million to as many as 10.4 million votes to Clinton in 2016.
In his promised “twitter storm” Dr. Epstein first called out President Trump on three points:
point #1: I’ve never said that #Google deliberately “manipulated” the 2016 election, but I measured substantial pro-#Hillary bias in #Google’s search results by preserving & analyzing 13,207 election-related searches & the 98,044 web pages linked to those searches.
point #2: The level of pro-#Hillary bias I found in #Google’s search results – absent on #Bing & #Yahoo – was enough to convince between 2.6 & 10.4 million undecided voters to vote for Hillary. @realDonaldTrump said 16 million; that’s wrong.
point #3: It doesn’t matter whether the bias in #Google search results was deliberate or not. Once it appeared – which it did at least 6 months before the election – it began shifting opinions & votes without people’s knowledge & without leaving a paper trail.
If you want the full story about my 2016 election monitoring project, read my essay, “Taming Big Tech: The Case for Monitoring,” published last year: https://t.co/1eyxrUuFeB
— Dr. Robert Epstein (@DrREpstein) August 20, 2019
Then Epstein moved on to the heart of the storm, that Hilary Clinton (whom he has long supported) had tweeted that his research had been debunked:
“This is going to hurt me to write, because I & my whole extended family have been strong supporters of the Clintons for decades. I have a framed, signed letter from #Bill on the wall near my desk. But #Hillary should be ashamed of herself.”
#Hillary has long depended on #Google for both money & votes. Her largest donor in 2016 was Alphabet/Google. Her Chief Technology Officer during the campaign was Stephanie Hannon, a former Google exec. And then there’s #EricSchmidt, longtime head of Google – the guy in the pic: pic.twitter.com/dSV8wOPwAH
— Dr. Robert Epstein (@DrREpstein) August 20, 2019
[In the interest of readability, the rest of his tweets are presented here in the order they were posted complete with the links as he posted them.]
And with those final words of admiration for Hillary, his ‘twitter storm’ blew out.
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