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by burfog 2638 days ago
We're already there.

Repeating a previous study, which had shown bias in the 2016 election, Dr. Robert Epstein shows that bias in the 2018 election pushed voters towards democrats. Approximately 4.6 million undecided voters are likely to have flipped. Numerous districts, particularly CA 45, are likely to have been flipped by Google's weaponized bias.

There has also been an awful lot of bans of beginner politicians, all on one side, often corrected after the election (damage is done) with a lame excuse about algorithms making mistakes.

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Do you have citations for any of this?
These are both written by the same person, and amount to spreading FUD about liberal bogeymen and painting conservatives as a victim.

For example, he is quoting Hillary Clinton instant search debacle as an example of bias, which was debunked as being technical illiteracy:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/google-manipulate-hillary-...

I'm guessing not.