Big Tech Rigs an Election
Excerpt: Whatever the result of the 2020 presidential election, we can’t say Robert Epstein didn’t warn us. Robert who? you ask. Exactly. Epstein, a Democrat, is also a Harvard-educated behavioral psychologist and the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today. He’s also the guy who long ago sounded the alarm about the threat posed to our republican form of government by Google and its Big Tech brethren. None of this comes as a surprise to our Mark Alexander, who’s been following Dr. Epstein’s work for years. In mid-2019, Epstein testified before Congress, and the substance of his testimony lent support to what every fair-minded person who’s ever done a politics-related Google search has long suspected: “Data I’ve collected since 2016 show that Google displays content to the American public that is biased in favor of one political party — a party I happen to like, but that’s irrelevant. … Democracy as originally conceived, cannot survive Big Tech as currently empowered.” Too bad no one on Capitol Hill took him seriously. {We all saw it, many complained about it, but nobody did anything to stop it. So, who do we blame for it, now? How do we prevent it in the future? Change Section 230! Ron P.]
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