I&#x27;m really not concerned with Google&#x27;s ability to &quot;rig an election&quot;, when the mainstream media&#x27;s editorial choices already exist and get far more mindshare.  He gives the red herring of there being multiple, eg, television stations with lower market shares than Google, but all of those theoretically competing media sources (yes, even the dreaded Fox News) have a very narrowly defined set of allowable opinions and they push them relentlessly.<p>And further, if minor changes to news composition are sufficient to &quot;rig an election&quot;, maybe we should start talking about whether democracy is actually a good decision mechanism.