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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOkay, so I tried my best to get to the bottom of the nefarious "Google voter manipulation" story.
And what it appears to be based on is this:
At a Senate hearing last month, a Dr. Epstein--no, no, no, not that Epstein, his name is Robert Epstein--who insisted very adamantly that he was a liberal, had an exchange with Senator Congeniality of Texas where he laid out his theory.
And his theory was that.....(drum roll)........Google is a search engine more frequented by Democrats than Republicans, and in 2016 and 2018, Google had a "Go Vote" banner above its search engine on Election Day. As a result, people who are a) Democrats--but only Democrats--and b)had no idea whatsoever that it was Election Day and c) whose lives depend on whatever instructions Google gives it on its search engine rushed to the polls and voted for Democrats where otherwise they would have just stayed home and Googled cat videos.
Not exactly sure how this works since people voting legally is not in any way "manipulation" and plenty of Republicans also use Google. How he somehow got 2.6 to 16 million net voters for Clinton in 2016 out of this nefarious, evil, diabolical Google scheme, I have no clue.
So, that's it. That's really it. There is video but it was on the Breitbart Youtube channel and honestly I don't feel like giving them clicks. But please, go ahead and check it out.
And for Dr. Epstein, I hereby bestow upon you the Billy Madison Award of Intellectual Analysis.
Vinca
(50,303 posts)Nice the Idiot-In-Chief has lots of time on his hands to push this baloney.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,890 posts)Approximately 20 million Russian soldiers donned civilian clothes, entered the US on election-eve
in 2016 thru secret tunnels originating in Moscow and, using fictitious names and addresses, voted for Trump. So, actually, Hillary Clinton won the AMERICAN popular vote by nearly 23 million!
(Some people say)
lastlib
(23,276 posts)and the tRumpers have never been able to disprove it!
Roy Rolling
(6,933 posts)Finally, someone who can explain the nefarious scheme to Democrats who didnt get the secretly-coded message for them from Google.
Now I understand what they mean by deep statethey are knee deep in something, and it aint Shinola.
Maeve
(42,288 posts)hughee99
(16,113 posts)Into doing something they might possibly otherwise not have done. As we know, this happens every single day and isnt a crime (unless Russia does it).
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)brooklynite
(94,720 posts)They also claim that Google manipulated its auto-fill algorithm in favor of pro-Democratic websites.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)that THIS is a whole 'nother level of stupid.
Aussie105
(5,429 posts)Google did it!
Made people go out and vote!
So devious! Google should be burnt to the ground!
This guy is a doctor? EeeeeK! Sampled too many Big Pharma products?