Trump tweets without evidence that Google 'manipulated' votes in the 2016 election and 'should be sued.'
The leak gives ammunition to conservative lawmakers like Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who haveof suppressing conservative voices through biased algorithms.
Vorhies told Project Veritas he collected the documents "because I saw something dark and nefarious going on with the company and I realized that there were going to not only tamper with the elections, but use that tampering with the elections to essentially overthrow the United States."by Project Veritas appear to include internal discussions and lists related to how Google determines whether news sources are credible or contain hate speech and how to treat them.
Trump's tweet also claimed Google manipulated 2.6 million votes for his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, likely referencing a number derived by Robert Epstein. The psychology researcher, who works for the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology,before the Senate Judiciary Committee in June that "biased search results generated by Google's search algorithm likely impacted undecided voters in a way that gave at least 2.
"They actually do reranking of search results to suit their needs, political and otherwise. It's called the 'Twiddler' system," Epstein told Breitbart.
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