Did Google Use It's Influence to Elect Biden in 2020 Election?

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   Readmikenowposted 3 years ago

   Given Google’s monopoly on Internet search and its ability to shape public opinion, the tech giant’s suppression of speech and expression in the digital public square clearly amounts to election interference. And it is hard to argue that it didn’t play a role in determining the election’s outcome. Epstein suggested Google swung millions of votes in 2016, but Joe Biden won by just 43,000 votes in 2020 when counting the margins in Wisconsin (20,700), Georgia (11,800), and Arizona (10,500). If just one third of one percent of voters in those states had switched their votes, Trump would be in the Oval Office right now.
   
   So why would Google make such a concerted effort to swing the election? Perhaps it was done out of ideological fealty to Democrats. A leaked video of a post-2016 election company struggle session showed Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggesting that the company consider promoting “better quality of governance and decision-making” in the United States, presumably by adjusting their product to help Democrats win elections. But there is plenty of evidence that Google’s interest in the election outcome was also about business, and there’s one immediate opportunity on the horizon for Biden to remove some of the red from his ledger.
   
   Google already monopolizes search, the most powerful service riding over broadband networks. But what if they could control a huge swath of the underlying infrastructure itself and harvest the data that comes with that control? As Axios recently reported, Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, which includes significant spending on broadband infrastructure, “revives a Google dream.”
   
   In 2010, Google initially launched this dream in the form of Google Fiber, which was intended to disrupt the Internet access market by delivering fiber optic-based broadband across the country. But the reality failed to live up to the hype. Today, Google Fiber only operates in a handful of cities, covering less than one percent of the U.S. population, and it has been five years since the company broke ground on a new fiber project. As John Burchett, head of policy for Google Fiber admitted, “One of the things we’ve learned is building infrastructure is long, slow, extraordinarily expensive, and fundamentally different than writing code for a new Google product. We may have started this process with a little bit of naïveté about how quickly we could impact the world.”
   
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