Search Engine as Mind Control
Discussion
AIRBT:
""The search engine is, in effect, the most powerful mind control machine ever invented. Ongoing Research: We have discovered and are currently studying and quantifying a number of powerful and largely invisible means of manipulation that the internet has made possible:
- the Answer Bot Effect (ABE),
- the Search Suggestion Effect (SSE),
- the Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME),
- the Differential Demographics Effect (DDE),
- the Targeted Messaging Effect (TME),
- the Multiple Exposure Effect (MEE),
- the YouTube Manipulation Effect (YME),
- the Opinion Matching Effect (OME),
- the Digital Personalization Effect (DPE), and others.
Most of these effects involve ephemeral experiences, which means, among other things, that they don't leave paper trails for authorities to trace.
As of January 2018, the National Academy of Sciences ranked AIBRT's 2015 paper on the Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME) to be in the top 1 percent of all scientific papers the organization monitored in all the sciences, both short-term and long-term. As of August 18, 2023, the paper had been accessed or downloaded from PNAS's website more than 230,000 times, and SEME had been partially or fully replicated multiple times. Ongoing research on SEME suggests that search rankings are having a significant impact on many of the most important decisions people make in their lives, not just on voting preferences. Because SEME is virtually invisible as a form of social influence, it is especially dangerous."
(https://www.aibrt.org/index.php/internet-studies)