“If a speech falls freely in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, is it still free speech?” – Swami Beyondananda

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In 1974, the satirical troupe, Firesign Theatre, put out a comedy record, Everything You Know Is Wrong.

Now, 50 years later …looks like they were right.

When we think of censorship, we think of overt repression of views, like book banning, or even book-burning. But in these times, where so much of what we think we “know” comes from digital sources, the censorship is so silent and stealthy that we haven’t a clue how the information we receive has already been filtered and focused by someone unknown to us. And how we are convinced we are “thinking our own thoughts” but are in fact parroting planted narratives.

On this episode of Front and Center, Michael and I review and unpack an eye-opening interview with psychologist and journalist Dr. Robert Epstein, on what he calls the Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME). Epstein, a former editor of Psychology Today, has written extensively about how Google’s algorithms elevate the data they want you to see and suppress what they don’t. It explains why when you Google “Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.” you have to wade through pages of negative articles before you can get to anything that Kennedy actually said or wrote.

Recently, Epstein reports, the same has been true of Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren – who has been critical of Google and their bias.

An example of how this works. Just go to Google search and put in the letter “a” – what comes up but Amazon, Google’s biggest advertiser.

More disturbing yet, Epstein shows how this distorted distribution of information has impacted elections – shifting undecided voters from 50-50 to 90-10, by sending them one-sided information and burying the other point of view. Epstein, a Democrat himself, shows that this silent programming is being done to support selected Democratic candidates and squelch dissent.

Here’s another example. When RFK, Jr.’s independent campaign was surging, he went from 25% support to single digits – all because of how the “news” was being skewed.

This is how elections are “stolen” without going near a voting booth or ballot box.

But we don’t know any of this – and we don’t know that we don’t know -- because we never get to see it.

We DO know this now because we have the ability to monitor exactly what they are doing, thanks to Dr. Epstein’s platform The Tech Watch Project (https://techwatchproject.org/) that is holding Big Tech companies accountable by monitoring internet content with the first ever nationwide "Digital Shield."

As I’ve said before, these are apocalyptic times when the veil is being lifted on evils of all kinds. We might not want to look, but to get through this difficult passage for humanity, we must. As the Swami has said, the truth shall UPSET you free.

It’s natural to be upset when you’ve been set up. Knowledge is power.

Please watch this podcast to find out what you don’t know, and need to know.

Explore the data and analysis on Epstein's monitoring system at https://americasdigitalshield.com/

Review Epstein's privacy tips at https://medium.com/@re_53711/seven-simple-steps-toward-online-privacy-20dcbb9fa82

Learn more about the Tech Watch Project at https://techwatchproject.org/

RFK, Jr Podcast interview with Dr. Robert Epstein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y1YKFdgL5c