Trump claims Google 'manipulated' votes in the 2016 election after internal documents leak
The leak gives ammunition to conservative lawmakers like Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., who haveof suppressing conservative voices through biased algorithms.
Vorhies told Project Veritas he collected the documents "because I saw something dark and nefarious going on with the company and I realized that there were going to not only tamper with the elections, but use that tampering with the elections to essentially overthrow the United States."by Project Veritas appear to include internal discussions and lists related to how Google determines whether news sources are credible or contain hate speech and how to treat them.
Trump's tweet also claimed Google manipulated 2.6 million votes for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, likely referencing a number derived by psychology researcher Robert Epstein. Epstein, who works for the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology,in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in June: "biased search results generated by Google's search algorithm likely impacted undecided voters in a way that gave at least 2.
About Epstein's claims, a Google spokesperson said, "This researcher's inaccurate claim has been debunked since it was made in 2016. As we stated then, we have never re-ranked or altered search results to manipulate political sentiment. Our goal is to always provide people with access to high quality, relevant information for their queries, without regard to political viewpoint."that the leaked documents give credence to his research.
"They actually do reranking of search results to suit their needs, political and otherwise. It's called the 'Twiddler' system," Epstein told Breitbart.
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