Tag: Election

Pro-Joe bias is algorithm-deep: Google’s search-&-destroy agenda

Posted not from a political perspective, but from a censorship and manipulation perspective, contrasting Google’s actions/algorithm with the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

Excerpt:

Research psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein, a California Democrat with a Harvard Ph.D., has preserved a  database of 42 million ephemeral search results gathered from 8,000 registered voters, who gave him permission to record their every Google interaction.He also finds that Google elevates liberal views and stifles dissenters, in a way which will have an impact on undecided voters in the 2024 election. It’s not hard to see who Google favors for president in 2024:

Source: Pro-Joe bias is algorithm-deep: Google’s search-&-destroy agenda

Maricopa County Officials Refusing to Turn Over Routers to Auditors

Source: Maricopa County Officials Refusing to Turn Over Routers to Auditors

Just some clarification drawing on our knowledge of networking.  Routers will contain the source and destination IP addresses in their logs but not the content (similar to your mail carrier as they delivering the mail and are not opening and reading the mail).  Balking or refusing to release the router logs claiming it would compromise other system’s confidential data does not hold water.

Orion hack exposed vast number of targets – impact may not be known for a while | Espionage | The Guardian

Source: Orion hack exposed vast number of targets – impact may not be known for a while | Espionage | The Guardian

The Important Uses of Cryptography in Electronic Voting and Counting | National Democratic Institute

Source: The Important Uses of Cryptography in Electronic Voting and Counting | National Democratic Institute

I posted this since there is some discussion about Hash values and voting machines.

US election: are social media giants ‘censoring’ stories about Joe Biden’s son and Ukraine? | The Week UK

Source: US election: are social media giants ‘censoring’ stories about Joe Biden’s son and Ukraine? | The Week UK

Please know I have no presidential preference but I too have observed censoring and suppression of information by social media (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube) this election cycle and note this is a foreign news service article.