Ephemeral Content and An Amazing Interview(Dr. Robert Epstein)

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"Ephemeral content refers to web content that has a short lifespan and vanishes after the expiration date, usually as little as 24 hours. It can take many forms, including photos, live-stream videos, product demos, narrative stories, and more. Ephemeral content taps into FOMO and elicits an immediate response, giving audiences a small window to view and engage with it. It is a smart method to use if you are looking for your audience to take faster action on your content. Ephemeral content can be published on three primary platforms: Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram."
https://instapage.com/blog/ephemeral-content/
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/ephemeral-content
https://rockcontent.com/blog/ephemeral-content/

G**gle(Censored as a joke) and YT should be included in this definition. I just watched a fantastic interview, and this feels like it is really important. It's as important as sharing the works of Dr. Francis Boyle or Peter McCullough. Readers be warned, monkey hanging alert- this is worldly drama not making it into the news. Participate or not at your own discretion.

"Robert Epstein is a senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology in California. A PhD of Harvard University, he is the author of 15 books and more than 250 scientific and mainstream articles, as well as the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today."
https://aeon.co/users/robert-epstein

In 2019 Dr. Robert Epstein testified before Congress about the dangers of g**gle and psychological manipulation. As a self ascribed leftist, he says g**gle is a threat to democracy.
https://rumble.com/vpo513-expert-shows-how-bias-in-google-search-results-may-have-shifted-78-million-.html

In the video above, Dr. Epstein goes on to say he plans on building a much more comprehensive system that would allow him to catch "Big Tech" in the act when information becomes biased or when censorship and psychological manipulation take place.

Which brings us to the interview. As soon as it becomes available on Rumble I will try to share it here because I know the advertisements can be intrusive over at banned.video

https://banned.video/watch?id=6520738dc864bae589a69b56

Dr. Epstein calls g**gle the most powerful mind control machine, with the ability to shift thinking- purchases and votes. You can find a compilation of his research here, https://mygoogleresearch.com/
from the link above,
"The data showed that Google search results (but NOT search results on Bing or Yahoo) had a significant liberal bias – enough to have shifted at least 6 million votes in the months leading up to the election.


Just days after the Presidential race ended, we began aggressively monitoring the Georgia Senate races. We recruited a politically diverse group of 1,004 field agents spread throughout the state, and we preserved more than a million online ephemeral experiences there. And the monitoring WORKED.

Because they knew we were tracking and preserving the content they were showing people, Google literally TURNED OFF political bias in its search results, and it did NOT send targeted 'GO VOTE' reminders to anyone. Google donated large sums of money to Democratic candidates in Georgia, but it DID NOT use digital manipulations there - a BIG WIN for monitoring and for Georgia voters!"

What's amazing about this interview is we have anonymous volunteers all over the US allowing Dr. Epstein to record them and their childrens data 24 hours- these volunteers are being paid $25/month and are numbered in the thousands. I believe current estimation is 50,000 volunteers. I hope more people sign up or donate to the cause, allowing a strict watch on a monopoly in cahoots with nefarious entities who have allowed profit to stamp out individual sovereignty. Let's not forget, g**gle had some practice when they helped develop a search engine for the communist party so as to keep a tighter control on the information people living under the regime are allowed to see. Below you can donate and see what is a current work in progress, exposing the data captured by the volunteers:

https://americasdigitalshield.org/dashboard_mockup.html

I found this separate document also by Dr. Robert Epstein pretty fascinating too:

The YouTube Manipulation Effect (YME): A Quantification of the Impact that the Ordering of YouTube Videos Can Have on Opinions and Voting Preferences

Abstract

Recent research has identified a number of powerful new forms of influence that the internet and related technologies have made possible. Randomized, controlled experiments have shown, for example, that when results generated by search engines are presented to undecided voters, if those search results favor one political candidate over another, the opinions and voting preferences of those voters can shift dramatically – by up to 80% in some demographic groups. The present study employed a YouTube simulator to identify and quantify another powerful form of influence that the internet has made possible – the YouTube Manipulation Effect (YME). In two randomized, controlled, counterbalanced, double-blind experiments with a total of 1,463 politically-diverse, eligible US voters, we show that when a sequence of videos displayed by the simulator is biased to favor one political candidate, and especially when the “up-next” video suggested by the simulator favors that candidate, both the opinions and voting preferences of undecided voters shift dramatically toward that candidate. Voting preferences shifted by between 51.5% and 65.6% overall, and by more than 75% in some demographic groups. We also tested a method for masking the bias in video sequences so that awareness of bias was greatly reduced. In 2018, a YouTube official revealed that 70% of the time people spend watching videos on the site, they are watching content that has been suggested by the company’s recommender algorithms. This gives Google (YouTube’s parent company) unprecedented power to impact thinking and behavior, and YouTube video sequences have also been implicated in many cases of political radicalization. The fact that no laws or regulations exist to limit Google’s ability to use YouTube as a manipulative tool should be a matter of great concern to leaders and public policy makers worldwide.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4527207

The counter to this aggressive level of domination is to support independent media or the small people and businesses you agree with. The words "parallel economy" have been weaponized by the very entities who maintain dominion over the control of information. Use your $$$ while you have some and start asking whether or not you want to continue supporting corporate crony capitalism. But more importantly, remember to treat others as you wish to be treated. Stay informed, and don't be afraid to share your opinion.

We will end this thread by another article offered by Dr. Robert Epstein

Seven Simple Steps Toward Online Privacy

"So, to sum up, here are my current and most essential recommendations for using the internet safely and privately:

Use Brave for browsing, search, and group video chats.

Use Proton for email — and for storing or transferring large files using their new ProtonDrive service. Start out with their free email. At some point, you might want to move up to paid email. It costs about $7 a month, and it’s well worth it.

Use Signal for texting — and, when needed, for secure voice and video calls.

Finally, please retire, toss, or donate your Android and Google Home devices. These are surveillance devices, and Google, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Maps, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, TikTok, and all the other big online platforms are surveillance platforms. Don’t use them, and if, at times, you must use them, clear your cache and cookies immediately after you end your session.

In Dave Egger’s 2013 book, The Circle — released in 2017 as a movie starring Emma Watson and Tom Hanks — the only way one of the main characters could find to go off-grid was to kill himself by driving his vehicle off a bridge. If you follow the guidelines I’ve outlined above, you won’t need to resort to such extremes to regain some privacy in your life — at least for the time being."
https://medium.com/@re_53711/seven-simple-steps-toward-online-privacy-20dcbb9fa82

[Jitendra Hydonus]

I generally read and ask questions at bing.com and yahoo news and mail. I keep away from google not because it necessarily has liberal bias, but because of intrusive email and used up space from spam. Google continually asks for more money for more space. If I knew how I’d wipe it off my iPhone and iPad but for some reason safari has difficulty finding spiritual portal and when I click on spiritual portal on safari I usually just get a dark screen. I’m not sure 🤔 who is responsible for all the spam at google chat and gmail but I actually have over 130,000 contacts at google and never met one.

However on a different note; if voting did shift dramatically for any reason because of Google in the last election, let us just look at what we have had from our previous president from the longest serving cabinet member as confirmation of the total disregard his party displayed when in office during that period as evidenced below by his personal staff which he claimed would be the best;

Exclusive: John Kelly goes on the record to confirm several disturbing stories about Trump
Updated 8:50 AM EDT October 3, 2023

John Kelly, the longest-serving White House chief of staff for Donald Trump, offered his harshest criticism yet of the former president in an exclusive statement to CNN.

Kelly set the record straight with on-the-record confirmation of a number of damning stories about statements Trump made behind closed doors attacking US service members and veterans, listing a number of objectionable comments Kelly witnessed Trump make firsthand.

"What can I add that has not already been said?" Kelly said, when asked if he wanted to weigh in on his former boss in light of recent comments made by other former Trump officials. "A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as POWs are all 'suckers' because 'there is nothing in it for them.' A person that did not want to be seen in the presence of military amputees because 'it doesn't look good for me.' A person who demonstrated open contempt for a Gold Star family -- for all Gold Star families -- on TV during the 2016 campaign, and rants that our most precious heroes who gave their lives in America's defense are 'losers' and wouldn't visit their graves in France.

"A person who is not truthful regarding his position on the protection of unborn life, on women, on minorities, on evangelical Christians, on Jews, on working men and women," Kelly continued. "A person that has no idea what America stands for and has no idea what America is all about. A person who cavalierly suggests that a selfless warrior who has served his country for 40 years in peacetime and war should lose his life for treason -- in expectation that someone will take action. A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law.
"There is nothing more that can be said," Kelly concluded. "God help us."

In the statement, Kelly is confirming, on the record, a number of details in a 2020 story in The Atlantic by editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, including Trump turning to Kelly on Memorial Day 2017, as they stood among those killed in Afghanistan and Iraq in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery, and saying, "I don't get it. What was in it for them?"

Those details also include Trump's inability to understand why the American public respects former prisoners of war and those shot down in combat. Then-candidate Trump of course said in front of a crowd in 2015 that former Vietnam POW Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, was "not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured." But behind closed doors, sources told Goldberg, this lack of understanding went on to cause Trump to repeatedly call McCain a "loser" and to refer to former President George H. W. Bush, who was also shot down as a Navy pilot in World War II, as a "loser."
CNN reached out to the Trump campaign Monday afternoon, telling officials there that a former administration official had confirmed, on the record, a number of details about the 2020 Atlantic story, without naming Kelly, and seeking comment. The Trump campaign responded by insulting the character and credibility of retired Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley, who had nothing to do with this story. An updated statement from a Trump campaign spokesperson on Tuesday said, "John Kelly has totally clowned himself with these debunked stories he's made up because he didn't serve his president well while working as chief of staff."

The Atlantic article also described Trump's 2018 visit to France for the centennial anniversary of the end of World War I, where, according to several senior staff members, Trump said he did not want to visit the graves of American soldiers buried in the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris because, "Why should I go to that cemetery? It's filled with losers." During that same trip to France, the article reported, Trump said the 1,800 US Marines killed in the Belleau Wood were "suckers" for getting killed.
And Kelly's statement adds context to a story in the book "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021," by Susan Glasser and Peter Baker, in which Trump, after a separate trip to France in 2017, tells Kelly he wants no wounded veterans in a military parade he's trying to have planned in his honor. Inspired by the Bastille Day parade, except for the section of the parade featuring wounded French veterans in wheelchairs, Trump tells Kelly, "Look, I don't want any wounded guys in the parade."
"Those are the heroes," Kelly said. "In our society, there's only one group of people who are more heroic than they are -- and they are buried over in Arlington."

"I don't want them," Trump said. "It doesn't look good for me."
The story squares with another recent story from Goldberg in The Atlantic, a profile of retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, in which Trump does not react well to seeing severely wounded Army Captain Luis Avila singing "God Bless America" at a welcome event for the new chairman. "Why do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded."

Kelly's statement also refers to a remark Trump made in response to that same article, which describes Milley, in the closing days of the Trump presidency in 2020, receiving intelligence that the Chinese military feared Trump was about to order a military strike on it. Milley, in a call authorized by Trump administration officials, reassured his Chinese counterparts that such a strike was not going to happen.
That call was first reported in 2021 in the book "Peril" by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, but Trump said this past week on his social media site that the call was "an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH."

Asked for reaction to the suggestion that he deserves execution, Milley told Norah O'Donnell of "60 Minutes" that he wouldn't "comment directly on those, those things. But I can tell you that this military, this soldier, me, will never turn our back on that Constitution."Kelly's statement to CNN comes days after former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson sat down with CNN in an interview promoting her new book, "Enough," and warned the public that "Donald Trump is the most grave threat we will face to our democracy in our lifetime, and potentially in American history."

"Enough," interestingly, contains a scene in which Hutchinson and then-White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin push back against Goldberg's 2020 story. Griffin issued a statement to The Atlantic after that story posted denying the report.

Reached for comment over the weekend, Griffin said, "Despite publicly praising the military and claiming to be the most pro-military president, there's a demonstrable record of Trump bashing the most decorated service members in our country, from Gen. Mattis to Kelly to Milley, to criticizing the wounded or deceased like John McCain. Donald Trump will fundamentally never understand service the way those who have actually served in uniform will, and it's one of the countless reasons he's unfit to be commander in chief."

No other presidential candidate in history has had so many detractors from his inner circle. His former secretary of defense, Mark Esper, told CNN in November 2022, "I think he's unfit for office. ... He puts himself before country. His actions are all about him and not about the country. And then, of course, I believe he has integrity and character issues as well."

Trump's former attorney general, Bill Barr, told CBS in June that "he is a consummate narcissist. And he constantly engages in reckless conduct. ... He will always put his own interests, and gratifying his own ego, ahead of everything else, including the country's interests. Our country can't, you know, can't be a therapy session for you know, a troubled man like this."

Considering the remarks his staff made about him is there any doubt as to why a company would also have somewhat of a negative view of such a leader? Is there any doubt why anyone who loves this country would have a negative response to anything that would describe this man as an effective leader in American politics? Given the fact that so much of his staff found the president in office at that time showed little regard for our country’s values, is their any doubt that any one caring about our nation would have found Donald Trump unqualified to show any kind of support for those who have served this country??

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Google Experiments With “Faster and More Adaptable” Censorship of “Harmful” Content Ahead of 2024 US Elections

In the run-up to the 2020 US presidential election, Big Tech engaged in unprecedented levels of election censorship, most notably by censoring the New York Post’s bombshell Hunter Biden laptop story just a few weeks before voters went to the polls.

And with the 2024 US presidential election less than a year away, both Google and its video-sharing platform, YouTube, have confirmed that they plan to censor content they deem to be “harmful” in the run-up to the election.

In its announcement, Google noted that it already censors content that it deems to be “manipulated media” or “hate and harassment” — two broad, subjective terms that have been used by tech giants to justify mass censorship.

However, ahead of 2024, the tech giant has started using large language models (LLMs) to experiment with “building faster and more adaptable” censorship systems that will allow it to “take action even more quickly when new threats emerge.”

Google will also be censoring election-related responses in Bard (its generative AI chatbot) and Search Generative Experience (its generative AI search results).

In addition to these censorship measures, Google will be continuing its long-standing practice of artificially boosting content that it deems to be “authoritative” in Google Search and Google News. While this tactic doesn’t result in the removal of content, it can result in disfavored narratives being suppressed and drowned out by these so-called authoritative sources, which are mostly pre-selected legacy media outlets.

https://www.infowars.com/posts/google-experiments-with-faster-and-more-adaptable-censorship-of-harmful-content-ahead-of-2024-us-elections/