No, Google — the Media Research Center’s latest exposé into your anti-American meddling in the 2024 presidential election was far from an isolated incident.
Google made a feeble attempt to downplay an MRC study published Sept. 25 that demonstrated the tech giant has willfully and knowingly interfered in the upcoming November election. The study’s impact has prompted former President Donald Trump to vow legal action against the tech giant in a potential second administration.
In a dismissive and evasive response, Google told Fox News that the study—which revealed that Americans searching for Trump’s campaign website are forced to wade through leftist media outlets—was based on a “single rare search term on a single day several weeks ago.” The Big Tech company also insisted in comments to CNBC that it “absolutely” does not manipulate results to favor candidates.
What Google failed to disclose is that the MRC alone has issued not one but at least 19 studies detailing the company’s brazen manipulation of American elections. This includes reports of Google’s interference in the 2022 midterm elections as well as the 2024 primary elections. It has also attempted to manipulate public perception through its equally insidious influence through Gemini, its artificial intelligence chatbot.
The election meddling in the 2024 election has been egregious, beginning in August 2023, when President Joe Biden was the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for president, and continuing through September 2024. If Google “absolutely” does not manipulate results, can it explain the overwhelming evidence showing otherwise?
Post-Harris Take Over
- Google pushed links to leftist outlets before listing Trump’s campaign’s website (Sept. 25). This is the latest MRC study, and the one at the center of the dismissive Google response. MRC found on Sept. 6 that when Americans searched for “donald trump presidential race 2024,” they had to wade through numerous news articles from leftist outlets before finding the Trump campaign site. Not a single article from a right-leaning outlet appeared above his campaign website.
- Google favored legacy media the day after the second Trump assassination attempt, just like clockwork (Sept. 17). Google boosted leftist outlets by a staggering 13-to-1 ratio the day after Trump escaped a second assassination attempt, and its chatbot, Gemini, declined to confirm whether it occurred.
- Google fueled the infamous Harris media honeymoon (Aug. 27). After Harris inherited the Democratic Party nomination, Google wasted no time in extending her honeymoon by propping up leftist media outlets when MRC searched for Harris’s policies. This study revealed that the tech giant favored leftist outlets by nearly 10 times more in both Google Search and the Google News tab.
- Google turned to Harris in searches for completely different names (Aug. 7). Americans searching for queries related to Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance’s (R-OH) rallies were instead presented with “Top Stories” panels featuring both Kamala Harris and Vance. Google, however, did not show results for Vance in searches for Democrat vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s rallies.
- Google cuddled up with the Biden-Harris campaign to attack Project 2025 (July 24). When Biden directed his 38 million X followers to “Google Project 2025,” the tech giant seemingly obliged by promoting the Biden campaign’s website in searches for “Project 2025.”
Pre-Biden Drop Out
Even before Biden dropped out of the 2024 race, Google’s bias against Republicans was in full swing, primarily targeting the Trump campaign’s website before and after the primaries.
- Google buried the Trump campaign’s website and hailed Biden the first day of the Republican National Committee Convention (July 17). MRC found that Google completely censored the Trump campaign’s website from the top 100 search results on the first day of the RNC—while Biden’s website conveniently held the top spot. This occurred two days after Trump narrowly escaped his first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
- Google suppressed (once again) the Trump campaign’s website after he was convicted in the Manhattan case (June 4).
- Google similarly censored most Republican candidates — including Trump — before the fourth Republican primary debate (Dec. 5, 2023), the third debate (Nov. 8, 2023); the second debate (Sept. 27, 2023); and also in the first debate (Aug. 24).
- Google unsuccessfully shielded Biden from humiliation after the ‘bloodbath’ debate with Trump. (June 28). A day after Trump slammed Biden during the first presidential debate, MRC found that the Big Tech company boosted leftist outlets by an 11-to-1 ratio in a Google Search of the query “Biden” in the platform’s News tab. Predictably, Google News did not feature a single right-leaning news outlet when MRC searched for “Trump.”
- Google buried (once again) the Trump campaign’s website after he was convicted in the Manhattan case (June 4). When a New York jury convicted Trump for allegedly submitting falsified business records, Google did not display the Trump website on the first page results.
Non-Presidential Censorship
Google’s election meddling was not exclusive to the presidential race—extending into the 2022 midterms. These were among the first times MRC conducted Google searches to determine potential biases against the right.
- Google cracked down on Republican Senators ahead of the 2022 midterm elections (Oct. 25, 2022). MRC uncovered that 10 of the 12 Senate Republicans in the top Senate races for that term were pushed far below their Democratic opponents. The censorship was so rampant that seven out of the 12 Republican candidates were completely hidden from page one.
- Google also punished 100 percent of its harshest critics on Capitol Hill (Nov. 2, 2022). This study unveiled that the Big Tech company again hid seven of the 10 Republican critics on page one of Google Search.
- Google’s censorship extended to the Georgia runoff races (Dec. 12, 2022). This study showed how Google Search favored Democrat Senator Raphael Warnock at the expense of Republican candidate Herschel Walker, culminating in Democrats successfully flipping the Georgia Senate seat and gaining control of the Senate.
Google’s Artificial Intelligence Advances Election Interference
- Google’s AI Bard censored Biden’s opponents ahead of the second GOP primary debate (Sept. 27, 2023). Bard (now known as Gemini) censored then-Democrat candidate for president Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, among other challengers when asked to rank the 2024 presidential candidates.
- Google’s Bard showed favoritism toward former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) while disparaging House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) (Nov. 15, 2023). The AI chatbot offered nothing but flattering words for Pelosi but used derogatory words when asked who was the better person.
- Google’s Bard ran cover for Biden bombshell but went mum on Trump-Russia collusion media narrative (Jan. 5, 2024). Bard told MRC at the time that the Hunter Biden laptop bombshell remained unverified, and it refused to provide information on the since-disproven Trump-Russia collusion media narrative.
After MRC and others exposed bias on Bard, the tech giant began redirecting users who had election-related questions to the already-biased Google Search.
These examples barely scratch the surface, as an MRC Special Report showed how Google has gotten away with election interference for at least 16 years, “beginning in 2008, intensifying in 2016 and continuing into 2024.”
In response to these findings, Google brushed off the MRC’s Special Report as a “recycled list of baseless” and “inaccurate complaints.” MRC President Brent Bozell authored a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai on March 26, challenging him to disprove the report’s findings. Bozell gave Pichai until April 9 to respond. However, as of Sept. 30, Pichai has yet to reply.
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