Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is using research by the Media Research Center to fight back against online censorship.
Bailey appeared on Newsmax’s National Report Wednesday to discuss his ongoing investigation into Google, Meta and OpenAI after their AI chatbots portrayed President Donald Trump negatively concerning anti-Semitism. MRC first uncovered this bias in a June study, which Bailey referenced in recent letters to the CEOs of these Big Tech companies.
Newsmax Hosts Shaun Kraisman and Emma Rechenberg asked Bailey about his ongoing probe, before Rechenberg broke down MRC’s study as quoted in Bailey’s letters: “Of the six chatbots asked this question, three, including Open AI's own ChatGPT, rated President Donald Trump dead last, and one refused to answer the question at all. One struggles to comprehend how an AI chatbot supposedly trying to work with objective facts could arrive at such a conclusion.”.
In response, Bailey affirmed, “It is indisputable that President Trump has been the most pro-Israel president in recent memory. He has done more to attack and fight back against anti-Semitism than any president in history.”
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“This is a consumer protection issue for the people of the state of Missouri,” Bailey added. “If these big tech social media oligarchs are advertising an encyclopedia-style access to information, but are distorting that information and denying objective reality, then they owe Missouri consumers an explanation.”
Big Tech censorship represents the worst such attack on free speech ever, he argued.
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“When King George closed a printing press in colonial America, the world knew he did it, and he was stifling the one form of speech, the written word,” Bailey explained. “But when big tech social media de-emphasizes, deplatforms, shadow bans, distorts the truth and denies access to alternative arguments, they're denying access to multiple different forms of communication — spoken word, written word, visual imagery. And the world may not know that they've de-emphasized, deplatformed, shadow-banned those voices. This is dangerous.”
Bailey was discussing his investigation into Google’s Gemini, Meta and ChatGPT for returning factually inaccurate answers when asked to rank the last five presidents from best to worst on anti-Semitism. Copilot refused to answer the question.
In his letter to Google, Bailey referenced a separate report by MRC that exposed the Gemini chatbot's anti-American responses just days before Independence Day.
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