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The study estimated that this could change the outcome of upwards of 25 percent of national elections worldwide.

== Hillary Clinton 2016 Search Engine Manipulation ==

Google was accused of manipulating auto-complete search results, removing all negative words associated with Democratic Nominee for 2016 US Election Hillary Clinton. When you typed 'crooked hillary' auto complete did not show any related results or performed auto complete for that phrase on Google. Whereas it shows several related search terms on Bing and Yahoo Search engines. Popular social new network Sourcefed uncovered the story in this [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFxFRqNmXKg&feature=youtu.be youtube video] on June 9 2016 that went viral.

On the other hand, Google denies secretly re-ranking search results to manipulate user sentiment, or tweaking ranking specially for elections or political candidates.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/google-2016-election-121766|title=A Flawed Elections Conspiracy Theory|website=POLITICO Magazine|access-date=2016-04-02}}</ref>

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* {{Cite journal|title = The search engine manipulation effect (SEME) and its possible impact on the outcomes of elections|url = http://www.pnas.org/content/112/33/E4512|journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|date = 2015-08-18|issn = 0027-8424|pmid = 26243876|pages = E4512-E4521|volume = 112|issue = 33|doi = 10.1073/pnas.1419828112|first = Robert|last = Epstein |authorlink1=Robert Epstein|first2 = Ronald E.|last2 = Robertson}}

* {{Cite journal|title = Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary?|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFxFRqNmXKg&feature=youtu.be|first = Matt|last = Lieberman}}

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