Tucker Carlson and Cenk Uyger Discuss Power and Speech
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I don't think there is sufficient appreciation for how malleable opinion is to influence operations.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4547273/
We present evidence from five experiments in two countries suggesting the power and robustness of the search engine manipulation effect (SEME). Specifically, we show that (i) biased search rankings can shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by 20% or more, (ii) the shift can be much higher in some demographic groups, and (iii) such rankings can be masked so that people show no awareness of the manipulation. Knowing the proportion of undecided voters in a population who have Internet access, along with the proportion of those voters who can be influenced using SEME, allows one to calculate the win margin below which SEME might be able to determine an election outcome.
edited to add his Congressional comments:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4808451/user-clip-dr-robert-epstein-testimony
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4547273/
The search engine manipulation effect (SEME) and its possible impact on the outcomes of elections
We present evidence from five experiments in two countries suggesting the power and robustness of the search engine manipulation effect (SEME). Specifically, we show that (i) biased search rankings can shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by 20% or more, (ii) the shift can be much higher in some demographic groups, and (iii) such rankings can be masked so that people show no awareness of the manipulation. Knowing the proportion of undecided voters in a population who have Internet access, along with the proportion of those voters who can be influenced using SEME, allows one to calculate the win margin below which SEME might be able to determine an election outcome.
edited to add his Congressional comments:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4808451/user-clip-dr-robert-epstein-testimony
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