When we first heard someone suggest years ago that the big tech companies now the monopolies might intervene on behalf of a candidate in an american election, it seemed far fetched now. It seems obvious that is happening, no question. So far, tech monopolies have censored reporting on the by the family. They silenced politicians, they dont, like theyd, be plat formed any user who deviates from a narrowly prescribed a set of approved ideas. They also have other less obvious ways to influence the election. Google can offer a biased search suggestion and does Youtube gets to pick the next video you watch whats the effect of all of this much more profound than anything any foreign country is doing to us. Dr Robert Epstein has been studying tech and its effect on politics. For years, hes expressed concern about the power of tech monopolies. On this show he did it two years ago.

We should be paranoid, because what Google and Facebook can do is really mind boggling if, for example, Mark Zuckerberg on election day last year. If he had chosen to press the enter key early morning and just sent out a message to Hillary Clinton, supporters, only saying go out and vote go out and vote reminder that would have sent her an additional four hundred and fifty thousand voters that day with no one knowing this had occurred. When you control all the information you control, what people know and believe you control peoples, minds whats the practical effect of that control four days out from a presidential election, and is there anything we could do about it doctor thanks so much for coming on first to the practical effects, what do you think big Tex Interference would do to the election results

based on the data come up? What we are seeing is the president nationwide. They are probably shifting this year in the selection, fifteen million votes without anyones awareness, except for what im doing without leaving a paper trail for authorities to trace. How are they doing that? They are doing it with bias in search results which, basically no one can see. It would be very tough to see weve been measuring that now, with about six hundred field agents in the swing states and just based on the first hundred fifty thousand searches that weve looked at thats about one point: five million search results and over a million web pages, we are finding very substantial pro liberal bias in all ten or at least nine out of ten

search results on the first page of Google search results, strong liberal bias not on being or Yahoo, and we are seeing that bias in every demographic group and one report we generated recently, we saw more liberal bias in Google content going to conservatives than going to liberals interesting, that is the deposition definitio propaganda, tailoring information to change the views of people in a targeted way, its immoral and election interference. Its is it illegal. We have campaign finance laws dont. We there is no specific laws or regulations in place. Stopping a company like Google from doing things like this, and they said they can exercise their free speech rights and to show people anything they want to show people.

You could look at this as an extreme violation of campaign finance laws. In effect, they are making huge in kind donations to one party one candidate. It doesnt cost them a dime, but thats, not the issue. The issue is: what would it cost you to do it or what would it cost me to do it and we are talking tens of millions of dollars at least one of the reasons this is so corrosive is because its so difficult to measure- and it makes everybody paranoid and distrustful and undermines confidence in the system, because you cant see it. As you said, how do we prevent the replay of this not just to stop helping Democrats for the sake of our collective confidence in our system? I think theres only one way to do it. I dont think laws and regulations can keep up with tech. Ive been in touch with a lot of members of Congress, a lot of attorneys general. They are all very frustrated.

I think we do it with monitoring systems with large scale, Nielsen type monitoring systems. We have more than six hundred field agents this year in the swing states. We will probably have seven or eight hundred by election day and what happens in that case is, with their permission, we are using software to look over their shoulders and see what these tech companies, Google, Yahoo, Facebook and more see what these tech companies are, showing them real people. They have to be real people, Republicans, Democrats, independents and we aggregate that data, and we look for shenanigans. We look for targeted messages, we look for bias and we are doing it on a massive scale and preserving that information. I think that is how you defend democracy. I agree with that completely. They must hate you.