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Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Study Suggests Big Tech Can Influence Flocks of Undecided Voters ‘Without People’s Awareness’

A study has found that tech companies can influence the decisions of large numbers of undecided voters with search suggestions on search engines. 

The study, conducted by Dr. Robert Epstein and several other affiliates of the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology (AIBRT), sought to determine whether the suggestions that pop into the search bar when using engines like Google can influence the voting behavior of undecideds. Its findings suggest that the “search suggestion effect” (SSE) is real and powerful, so much so that search engine operators controlling search suggestions could have “the power to shift a large number of votes without people’s awareness,” Epstein told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

10 comments:

  1. If you’re undecided at this point, you’re a fucking idiot. /and if you’ve decided Biden you’re a fucking idiot/commie.

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  2. I doubt this is factual. People already know who they want to be President or who they do not want to be President. I think the most relevant factor for many people is the mainstream media. IMO a huge percentage of seniors and low information voters get their news from TV and do not get news or information from the Internet.

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    1. Speaking as a geezer senior, I believe you are misinformed. Whenever I go anywhere that has a wait, like the Dr's office, vehicle service etc all of the seniors that I see are busy scrolling on their phones, most scrolling through news stories because I ask them what's so fascinating on their phones. Me, never. I bring a book and I read many news stories every day from home in addition to visiting places like this.

      Nemo

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    2. I am also a geezer senior, but I am not misinformed. Next time ask those scrolling seniors what sites they are scrolling and it will be mainstream media. Just because a senior has a cell phone is not proof that they are conservatives or that they check alternative news sources. There are news sources and there is Pravda, or the mainstream media. Sure, there are many conservative geezers like us but my point is the vast majority of seniors are low information people who have not changed their habits of watching TV news for information.

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  3. I wanna see names on "their" ballots is it Joe or newscum

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  4. Three-card Monte elections in November. Who's going to win?

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  5. The critical thinking elites know they can do this because they know people are emotional reacting, instant gratification fucking idiots. Just looks at the TV commercials that are obviously successful or they would be there. This is a great example of why the Progressives are going to eventually rule the country.

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  6. There's a simple solution to suggestions popping up in the browser search box. Turn suggestions OFF in Settings.

    Nemo

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  7. Some people re too easily influenced by stupid stuff

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  8. Maybe the internet should be shut off the week before election day? Just to be safe and give everyone a chance to detox.

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