Dr. Robert Epstein
guest·5 claims·1 episode
5 fact-checked claims across 1 episode on the Joe Rogan Experience. Each is a receipt: the exact quote, its timestamp, what published evidence says, and who benefits.
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- JRE #1768▶ 44:02
“So 94, 96% of all donations out of Google go to Democrats, which I sympathize with. I'm from a family of Democrats. I lean left.”
Epstein claims 94-96% of all donations from Google go to Democrats.
- JRE #1768▶ 1:19:51
“we are giving people quizzes and then we are giving people recommendations and then we are measuring to see whether we can change anyone's mind. And we're gett…”
Epstein claims his lab experiments show biased search rankings can shift people's opinions/votes by 70-90% with zero detection by subjects.
- JRE #1768▶ 35:42
“has $150 billion in the bank right now in cash, makes huge donations to political candidates, and then can shift votes, millions of votes nationwide without an…”
Epstein claims Google/Alphabet holds $150 billion in cash and makes huge direct donations to political candidates.
- JRE #1768▶ 1:44:06
“we found enough bias on Google, but not Bing or Yahoo, to have shifted 78 million votes. That's spread across hundreds of elections, though, okay, with no one …”
Epstein claims his 2018 midterm monitoring found Google search bias sufficient to have shifted 78 million votes across hundreds of elections.
- JRE #1768▶ 1:44:06
“we knew from the experiments we had run that that was enough bias to have shifted over a period of time among undecided voters somewhere between 2.6 and 10.4 m…”
Epstein claims his research found Google search bias shifted 2.6 to 10.4 million votes toward Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election without voters' awareness.