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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,194 posts)
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 03:46 PM Aug 2019

Okay, 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.

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Okay, so I tried my best to get to the bottom of the nefarious "Google voter manipulation" story. (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Aug 2019 OP
Thanks for the recap. As expected, it's all totally stupid. Vinca Aug 2019 #1
Makes sense, we know the GOP is AOL all the way!!1! bigbrother05 Aug 2019 #2
20 million Russian soldiers voted for Trump keithbvadu2 Aug 2019 #3
I've seen proof of that on the Internet! lastlib Aug 2019 #7
Thanks! Roy Rolling Aug 2019 #4
And here's from Politifact Maeve Aug 2019 #5
I think the idea is that Google "manipulated" extremely low information voters hughee99 Aug 2019 #6
K&R smirkymonkey Aug 2019 #8
Not entirely everything... brooklynite Aug 2019 #9
I'm no computer wizard, but even I know Haggis for Breakfast Aug 2019 #10
No, no, no! Aussie105 Aug 2019 #11

Vinca

(50,303 posts)
1. Thanks for the recap. As expected, it's all totally stupid.
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 03:54 PM
Aug 2019

Nice the Idiot-In-Chief has lots of time on his hands to push this baloney.

keithbvadu2

(36,890 posts)
3. 20 million Russian soldiers voted for Trump
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 09:19 PM
Aug 2019
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212392874

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)

Roy Rolling

(6,933 posts)
4. Thanks!
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 07:57 AM
Aug 2019

Finally, someone who can explain the nefarious scheme to Democrats who didn’t get the secretly-coded message for them from Google.

Now I understand what they mean by “deep state”—they are knee deep in something, and it ain’t Shinola.

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
6. I think the idea is that Google "manipulated" extremely low information voters
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 08:39 AM
Aug 2019

Into doing something they might possibly otherwise not have done. As we know, this happens every single day and isn’t a crime (unless Russia does it).

brooklynite

(94,720 posts)
9. Not entirely everything...
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 05:14 PM
Aug 2019

They also claim that Google manipulated its auto-fill algorithm in favor of pro-Democratic websites.

Aussie105

(5,429 posts)
11. No, no, no!
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 04:59 AM
Aug 2019

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?

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