By Selwyn Duke
Big Tech now has the capacity to shift up to 15 million votes in an American election. This isn’t the judgment of some far-right watchdog group but of Dr. Robert Epstein, a liberal and the senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology. He has long been studying GoogTwitFace’s ability to manipulate public opinion and hence voting and, despite being of the Left, is disturbed by the prospect of a high-tech oligarchy choosing our leaders.
Epstein hasn’t been prominent in the news of late. But his warning must be placed front and center because, as The Washington Post’s ironic motto warns, “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” And darkness is precisely what GoogTwitFace (Big Tech) prefers operating in — especially when, for example, trying to sway elections, such as our upcoming midterms.
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