OK, his SEME bias analysis is based on recruiting people through a "passive monitoring system," which recorded SERP rankings over time (what Epstein deems "eph

OK, his SEME bias analysis is based on recruiting people through a "passive monitoring system," which recorded SERP rankings over time (what Epstein deems "ephemeral experiences"). Participants' SERP rankings, and raw HTML of each of the top X links, were stored on Epstein's servers. He then had "online workers" (likely mturk?) rate each archived page as pro-Trump or Clinton.[0] He submitted a paper on this in June 2021 to the AABSS but they have yet to publish it. He also has 5 other, earlier SEME papers submitted for publication.[1] I appreciate you going the distance on providing these links but I'm loath to trust this data until it's been peer-reviewed. His AIBRT presentation[2] has some seemingly spurious logic. Here's one slide: https://i.imgur.com/t4rGv3e.png https://i.imgur.com/t4rGv3e.png The graph depicts 300k undecided voters resolving to a party over time. Here's Epstein talking about it: > ...by the time we hit election day, we have an enormous gap - more than 100,000 people - between the conservatives and liberals. And we've created that gap with our biased search results. Assigning that movement to a single cause seems unlikely to me. His presentation does include a relevant WSJ article titled "Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban."[3] That's not "red-handed," since they didn't do it, but it's very relevant. HN at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18036353 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18036353 [0] https://hackernoon.com/taming-big-tech-5fef0df0f00d https://hackernoon.com/taming-big-tech-5fef0df0f00d [1] https://drrobertepstein.com/pdf/vita.pdf https://drrobertepstein.com/pdf/vita.pdf [2] Video: https://www.aibrt.org/downloads/EPSTEIN_et_al_2021-Large-Scale_Monitoring_of_Big_Tech_Political_Manipulations-FINAL_w_AUDIO.mp4 https://www.aibrt.org/downloads/EPSTEIN_et_al_2021-Large-Sca... [3] https://archive.is/tM18I https://archive.is/tM18I