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It was obvious as daylight that Google supported Clinton through various algorithm tweaks in the search engine, not just against conservatives, but also against
by mtgx 7y ago
It was obvious as daylight that Google supported Clinton through various algorithm tweaks in the search engine, not just against conservatives, but also against other Democratic candidates in the primary.
There was even a paper released after the election showing that Google favored Clinton over Trump in about +20% of the searches.
But nobody ever believes this stuff, because:
1) The vast majority don't pay attention/or are too biased for a certain political candidate to care/believe it
2) "The Algorithm™ can only ever be objective and true" (i.e. Google would never tweak the algorithm for its own interests; ignore the antitrust cases saying the opposite)
3) Google can do no evil. Google can only ever be the good guy in the story
- anth_anm 7y ago4) It's conspiracy theory nonsense constantly pushed by right wing advocates.
- UncleMeat 7y agoSurely, given the stupendous number of leaks over the past three years coming out of Google that somebody would have provided evidence of this if it were true. Especially since we've already seen at least one Googler post regular leaks on Medium under his own name.
- erklik 7y ago> There was even a paper released after the election showing that Google favored Clinton over Trump in about +20% of the searches. Could you possibly link this? It would be highly appreciated. The issue that most of these comments are usually coming from right-wing conpriacy theorists like Alex Jones etc. This means that although, the comment might actually be true, but the reputation that they have built up leads to it being instantly denied. I would love to read the paper and see how they found that out. Whether its the algorithm favoring Clinton or is it simply the case of their being more results favoring Clinton.