Big tech has a massive effect on congressional elections

For the majority of State Affairs meeting, the committee called in several experts to testify on how they believe Big Tech companies threaten election security.

Dan Schneider, the vice president of Media Research Center, an organization that documents perceived media bias and censorship of Big Tech, said that through their studies, they found that Google favors creating algorithms that are biased.

“These big tech platforms like Google and Facebook will have a candidate of choice, a preferred candidate, and any candidate in the way of that individual will be censored and content supporting that candidate will be silenced,” Schneider said.

Zach Vorhies, a former software engineer for Google for eight and a half years, shared a similar testimony of Google favoring certain candidates and creating biased algorithms. He also testified about how Google allegedly has many blacklists and ranks news media sites. He claimed that news websites that support Democrats are ranked the highest in the U.S.

Others who testified made claims that elections have been turned over to Big Tech companies since 2012. Dr. Robert Epstein, the senior research psychologist for the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, testified that through Google’s algorithms, they’ve flipped elections without people’s knowledge and have the potential to shift millions of votes.

“This is the new kind of subliminal manipulation, and it’s occurring on a scale that’s never occurred before,” Epstein said. “It’s not just affecting Americans, it’s affecting more than 5 billion people around the world … Google doesn’t always favor the left, they favor whoever they want to favor so that it suits the company. In Cuba, they favor the right.”