Google Likely Shifted Undecided Voters in 2018 Election, Perhaps Millions, Researcher Says

Google Likely Shifted Undecided Voters in 2018 Election, Perhaps Millions, Researcher Says
A Google badge in Sydney on Sept. 14, 2007. Greg Wood/AFP/Getty Images
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Google may have skewed the results of the 2018 midterm elections by millions of votes, according to research by psychologist Robert Epstein.

Epstein had about 130 anonymous “field agents” in Orange County, California, and about 30 more across the country who had all their election-related Google search results recorded, more than 47,000 of them, including nearly 400,000 web pages that the search results linked to.

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Petr Svab is a reporter covering New York. Previously, he covered national topics including politics, economy, education, and law enforcement.
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