1984

According to this study, the order in which Google search results post news articles for candidates can sway undecided voters. Because of how close elections are, half of American elections have come down to less than an 8% margin, this is terrifying. Not to mention that most elections are decided only in swing states. If Google decided to show only positive articles for their candidate, and negative articles for an opposing candidate, the majority of uneducated voters would be subtly guided to Google's will.


To make matters worse, in the 2010 election Facebook send a random message to 61 million users urging them to vote. 340,000 people voted who would otherwise have not. Seeing as how Facebook knows what you like and who you support, they could send that message to just one parties voters.


And to top it all off the researchers in the study actually tried it in India during an election, and it worked.