Google buried Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Eric Schmitt's campaign website:  MRC Free Speech America conducted a study examining Google search results for the 12 “Top Senate Races” identified by RealClearPolitics during the 2022 midterm elections. MRC researchers searched for a candidate’s name with the words “senate race 2022’ and found that Google search results buried Senate Republican candidates’ campaign websites 83 percent of the time compared to their Democratic opponents. For more than half of these races, Google completely eliminated the Republican campaign websites from the first page of results.

The few Republican campaign websites that avoided complete elimination predictably appeared near the bottom of the first page of results. For example, Missouri Republican Eric Schmitt’s campaign website appeared 27th out of 29 results.