Trump blasted Google on his social media app for a discrepancy in the results promoted for him versus his opponent on the world’s largest and most used search engine, identifying it as election interference and promising to prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law if the Justice Department refused to get involved.
He wrote, “It has been determined that Google has illegally used a system of only revealing and displaying bad stories about Donald J. Trump, some made up for this purpose while, at the same time, only revealing good stories about Comrade Kamala Harris. This is an ILLEGAL ACTIVITY, and hopefully the Justice Department will criminally prosecute them for this blatant Interference of Elections. If not, and subject to the Laws of our Country, I will request their prosecution, at the maximum levels, when I win the Election, and become President of the United States!”
Trump’s claims are far from unfounded.
The Media Research Center reports:
The MRC’s research, conducted just days before tonight’s highly anticipated presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, revealed stark differences in how Google presents search results for various candidates. When searching for a candidate’s name along with “presidential race 2024,” researchers found that President Biden’s campaign website appeared as the top result, while former President Trump’s website was notably absent from the first page of results.
Google PACs and employees have donated almost $1.5 million to Kamala Harris’s campaign so far, and have given more to her than any other company.
Shortly after Trump was elected in 2016, Google held an official meeting about how to combat him and his agenda, and ensure that he and the “fascist” movement they claimed he represented were only a “blip on the radar.”
Earlier this year, following the first assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, Google buried search suggestions and results about the historic and developing story.
Breitbart News reports:
The primary point of contention centered around searches related to the recent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Breitbart News previously reported that users noted that when typing “assassination attempt on” into Google’s search bar, the auto-complete function did not suggest the recent incident involving Trump. Instead, it offered suggestions related to historical figures such as former President Ronald Reagan and musician Bob Marley.
In response to these allegations, a Google spokesperson provided clarification to Fortune magazine. The company stated that no “manual action” was taken on the auto-complete predictions and that they are “working on improvements” to the feature. Regarding the absence of suggestions related to the assassination attempt, Google explained that their systems have “protections against Auto-complete predictions associated with political violence,” which were functioning as intended prior to the recent event.
In 2020, alongside X (formerly known as Twitter and prior to Elon Musk’s purchase of the platform), Facebook, and Instagram, Google censored the infamous Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the election, which was later confirmed to be true.
