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[–] nonservator [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

To be clear, we’re not suggesting that Google is a digital arm of the Democratic Party.

Oh? How many Republicans work at Google? How many aren't afraid to admit it?

But our analysis clearly shows biases and differences in the results surfaced around the various candidates. Could those biases be caused by a single rabid software engineer? Possible, but highly unlikely. The bias is more probably an organic, emergent result constituted from a complex prism of quantification involving hundreds of signals and increasingly complex and opaque artificial intelligence. But if this is happening “organically” as the Google algorithms respond to various inputs, maybe it’s high time to rein in or at least double-check how this new actor in the democracy is behaving.

"Democracy is slow-motion fascism."