Media Research Center President Brent Bozell sounded the alarm over Google’s latest censorship scheme and accused the tech giant of “deliberately” manipulating its algorithms to sway the election.
Bozell joined Thursday’s episode of Fox Business’s Varney & Co. to detail a new MRC study exposing Google for actively boosting leftist media outlets—most of which are notoriously hostile towards the right—in search results related to the 2024 election. The findings also show Google elevated the campaign website of Vice President Kamala Harris and buried former President Donald Trump’s.
“Google is deliberately playing with the algorithms to deliberately change the electoral count. If that isn't tampering with democracy, I just don't know what is,” Bozell told host Stuart Varney, summarizing the MRC findings.
"Google is deliberately playing with the algorithms to deliberately change the electoral count. If that isn't tampering with democracy, I don't know what is."
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) September 26, 2024
MRC's @BrentBozell eviscerates Google's election interference with @Varneyco on @FoxBusiness pic.twitter.com/FJMkMz8YdY
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The MRC report showed that Google consistently yielded results from leftist outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post and Politico when users searched for “donald trump presidential race 2024.” Unsurprisingly, the same leftist outlets dominated search results when the query was changed to “kamala harris presidential race 2024.”
Bozell suggested that Google’s boosting of Harris’s website, and leftist outlets that favor the Democratic Party nominee, may amount to illegal campaign contributions that the government should look into.
“If you want to do something to affect the campaign, make a political contribution within the limits of the law. If this were a political contribution, it would be literally in the billions of dollars of a contribution, which would make it illegal,” Bozell emphasized during the Fox Business interview.
When Varney asked how Americans can counter the “left-wing” push on platforms like Google, Bozell offered a blunt solution: “You're only going to do that when the government intercedes on this.”
Google, which has earned a notorious reputation for ignoring MRC’s repeated requests for comments and explanations, attempted to save face by dismissing the study’s findings in remarks to Fox Business.
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“Both campaign websites consistently appear at the top of Search for relevant and common search queries,” the tech giant claimed, failing to address why leftist outlets are promoted.
The tech giant also dismissed the report as based on a “single rare search term on a single day several weeks ago.” This line of defense conveniently ignored the numerous MRC studies that busted the tech giant meddling in U.S. elections, dating back to 2008.
