Google is once again eliminating right-leaning media outlets and organizations from search results.
MRC researchers searched the words “trump rescission” on Tuesday, the day the Trump administration sent a $9.4 billion rescissions package to Congress that would cut funds to USAID as well as PBS and NPR’s taxpayer funding. Not one of the 14 links the search giant provided led to a right-leaning media outlet or organization.
Instead, Google repeatedly propped up numerous leftist media outlets, including none other than NPR and PBS. Meanwhile, Google excluded Fox News, The Daily Caller and The Heritage Foundation from its search results, even though all three published articles on the topic.
MRC President David Bozell torched the search engine for its blatant bias. “This is just more evidence of how much Google hates Trump and how much it loves propping up these propaganda outlets,” Bozell said. “Google has abandoned any pretense of neutrality. Conservative voices are not merely being suppressed and shoved to the bottom of results, they’re being completely eliminated and erased.”
Nearly 40 percent of the links Google elevated came from NPR and PBS reporting on how they each might be stripped of public funds. In one piece—headlined “Trump asks Congress to claw back $1.1 billion from public media”—PBS tried to defend its taxpayer funding and spread doom and gloom about what might happen should it be pulled. NPR did something similar in another article headlined “Trump asks Congress to wipe out funding for public broadcasting.”
Google’s search results similarly included articles from NBC, CBS and Politico, which like NPR and PBS, are all outlets rated “lean left” by media bias ratings firm AllSides.
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Google also surprisingly included a link to an article from the infamous American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In the piece, the ACLU complained about the rescission of an unnecessary Biden-era guidance. The guidance seems to be an attempt to protect women from pro-life laws that the left contends prohibit life-saving emergency care for women. The ACLU falsely equated such care (which is not prohibited in any state) with abortion.
“Today, the Trump administration rescinded guidance that reaffirmed hospitals’ obligation under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) to provide health-saving and lifesaving abortion care to patients experiencing medical crises,” the ACLU misleadingly claimed. The ACLU’s usage of the word “reaffirmed” further highlights just how unnecessary the guidance was.
The search giant even elevated a press release from Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), filled with emotionally charged catastrophizing of Trump’s mild spending cuts. “This is also just the beginning. Trump plans to come back for more if Republicans codify Trump’s cuts into law,” she complained. “This go around, it’s investments in America’s global leadership and support for over 1,500 local public radio and TV stations that are especially important in rural communities. Next time, it might be funding for cancer research or to help working families afford their energy bills this summer.”
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Finally, Google included a six-year-old video of former Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who left Congress two years ago, arguing against a 2018 rescission package.
These results come despite the fact that MRC researchers found that Fox News, the Daily Caller, the New York Post, Breitbart and Newsmax had reported on the same information but were nowhere to be found. This is especially concerning considering Fox News is consistently rated one of the most visited news websites in America.
Methodology: Using the web browser Brave in a private window to limit prior search history and cookies that could impact results, MRC Free Speech America researchers searched Google on June 3 for the words “trump rescission.” Researchers then analyzed the Search results for political bias.
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