Epstein is a senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research,
but other than a technologist who doesn’t appear to help with the studies,
Epstein is the organization’s only staff member
That was the study Epstein described in his Senate committee testimony,
where he didn’t mention that his huge claim is based on monitoring the search results of just 21 undecided voters out of 95 voters for a 2017 white paper. In his submitted testimony,
Epstein did provide seven pages of citations—but all of them are papers or op-eds he wrote or co-wrote himself. Only one of them—a 2015 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, about how biased results produced by search engines could have the ability to sway undecided voters—was peer-reviewed. Even that study didn’t demonstrate that this has actually happened.
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