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There's No Evidence That Google Is Manipulating Searches To Help Hillary Clinton (vox.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Vox: A recent report via SourceFed surfaced suggesting that Google is suppressing the phrase "Hillary Clinton crimes" from autocomplete results, thus helping her candidacy. In the video, it shows that if you type "Donald Trump rac," Google will suggest the word "racist" to complete the phrase. However, if you type "Hillary Clinton cri," Google will suggest "crime reform" and "crisis" but not "crimes," despite the fact that Google Trend results show that people search for "Hillary Clinton crimes" a lot more than "Hillary Clinton crime reform." The video suggests some sort of reliance between the Clinton campaign and Eric Schmidt. But Vox reports there's a simpler explanation: "Choose any famous American who has been accused of a serious crime and Google their name followed by the letters "cri," and in no case does Google suggest the word "crimes." Apparently, Google has a policy of not suggesting that customers do searches on people's crimes. I have no inside knowledge of why it runs its search engine this way. Maybe Google is just uncomfortable with having an algorithm suggesting that people search for other people's crimes. In any event, there's no evidence that this is specific to Hillary Clinton, and therefore no reason to think this is a conspiracy by Google to help Clinton win the election." Earlier this week, Julian Assange stated Google is "directly engaged" with the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. It goes hand-in-hand with SourceFed's report, as they both mention Eric Schmidt's role in helping the Clinton campaign. Assange said, "The chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, set up a company to run the digital component of Hillary Clinton's campaign."
I want Donald Trump to level the playing field:
1) All his business email over the same period that Hillary did. This includes business mail in personal accounts.
2) All his business dealings with foreign entities, particularly any that have countries that might have ties that are a concern.
3) Tax returns for the same years Hillary has released during her life in politics, audited or not. He is not campaigning for janitor here. We need to know what kind of man he is, and some of that is in those tax returns.
4) He should immediately ask the judge to begin the trial now for trump university and should ask it to be televised. If he is a good guy in this then prove it.
5) An anonymous survey should be commissioned at all trump companies and the results made public.
6) People affected by Trump's real estate dealings should be interviewed.
Of course there is a snowball's chance in heck that all this would happen, since it would probably doom him. The truth is not this particular clown's ally. Hillary Clinton may not be a perfect candidate, but her life is an open book compared to Trump.