He has concluded that Google was pro-Trump during the 2016 election.
He believes one of the most shocking examples was detected by his program in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. As he observed in a short, largely unnoticed blogpost published after Donald Trump was elected, the impact of YouTube’s recommendation algorithm was not neutral during the presidential race: it was pushing videos that were, in the main, helpful to Trump and damaging to Hillary Clinton. “It was strange,” he explains to me. “Wherever you started, whether it was from a Trump search or a Clinton search, the recommendation algorithm was much more likely to push you in a pro-Trump direction.”
[source : 'Fiction is outperforming reality': how YouTube's algorithm distorts truth, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/02/how-youtubes-algorithm-distorts-truth, 2nd February 2018]
And since Google implemented its censorship algorithm almost a year ago, here is what has happened to traffic from Google to TTS:
Down. Down. Down.
So down in fact that my Statcounter shows zero vists to TTS for the whole of January!
Coincidence?
I highlight Bomber Trump's deep connections to the extreme rightist Zionist deep state and get censored by Google while Google shows bias towards Trump?
Hmmmm...
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