Article snippet: What President Donald Trump Said: “Wow, Report Just Out! Google manipulated from 2.6 million to 16 million votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016 Election! This was put out by a Clinton supporter, not a Trump Supporter! Google should be sued. My victory was even bigger than thought! @JudicialWatch” This lacks evidence. Trump lost the popular vote by almost 2.9 million in the 2016 election and has long attributed this loss to baseless claims of voter fraud. Now Trump suggests that he would have lost the popular vote by a much smaller margin, or even won it, were it not for Google’s machinations. He appears to be referring to a disputed estimate given by Robert Epstein, a psychologist and former editor-in-chief at Psychology Today who says he supported and voted for Hillary Clinton. In a 2017 white paper, Epstein examined how Google Search might have influenced undecided voters in the 2016 election by providing more positive results for one candidate than the other. He estimated that the search results may have swayed “at least 2.6 million votes to Clinton.” When he testified to Congress this summer, Epstein added that the estimate was a “rock bottom minimum” and that up to 10.4 million votes could have been shifted to Clinton. In an interview, Epstein took issue with Trump’s characterization of his work. “I’ve never said Google manipulated the 2016 elections,” he said. “The range of numbers he listed in the tweet is also incorrect.” Panagiotis Metaxas, a computer scie... Link to the full article to read more