healthmyths
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You didn't read the above link did you????
One of Epstein's studies — which claims 2.6 million votes could have been shifted in favor of Clinton because of a bias in Google's search results — surveyed only 95 participants,
- Epstein told CNN on Monday that Trump misrepresented his findings, saying he didn't have evidence to prove Google actively "manipulated" millions of voters, but rather the bias he found in its search results was "sufficient to have shifted between 2.6 and 10.4 million votes" to Clinton.
- Epstein's findings are based on a phenomenon he says he's been studying for more than six years. He calls it the "Search Engine Manipulation Effect."
The crux of the theory, as he explained it in the 2016 Sputniknews article, is simple. "All Google has to do is show people search results that favor one candidate, in this case Hillary Clinton, higher in search results," he said.
- In other words, the theory goes, the more positive information about one candidate shows up in search results, the more likely voters will be to favor that candidate.