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'Unlimited and Unbridled': Inside Google's 'Massive Control' Over US Elections

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In the wake of Robert Epstein's groundbreaking study revealing that Google manipulates search results to favor Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, Radio Sputnik's Loud & Clear discussed what the revelations mean for democracy in America with civil justice advocate Mara Verheyden-Hilliard.

"Given Google's strong support for Mrs. Clinton, it seems reasonable to conjecture that Google employees manually suppress negative search suggestions relating to Clinton in order to reduce the number of searches people conduct that will expose them to anti-Clinton content," Dr. Epstein wrote for Sputnik on Monday.

In discussing these revelations with Loud & Clear's Brian Becker, Verheyden-Hilliard, of the Partnership for Civil Justice, reiterated Epstein's concerns.

"Well it's true across the board that the general public looks at where they get their information from…generally as benign. There's a growing understanding that it might be 'customized' to you, which is how they put it," she says.

"But that's really a euphemism for the fact that these entities are collecting extraordinary amounts of data on each individual that uses their system."

This mass collection of data gives companies like Google enormous power to manipulate public opinion.

"So across the board, I think it's time for people to realize, and for us to begin to take action over the fact that these massive entities, these massive corporations that are what influence us hour after hour, day after day, can impact the political outcomes in America and around the world."

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