Google erased Project Veritas from search results, once again hiding information from the American public.
Project Veritas released a video that allegedly showed Pfizer’s Director of Research and Development claiming the company is considering mutating COVID-19 to “preemptively develop new vaccines.” The video has been viewed 20 million times according to James O’Keefe founder and CEO of Project Veritas.
MRC Free Speech America researchers analyzed Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo search results for “Pfizer Project Veritas” — commonly searched keywords — and found that Google buried Project Veritas’s website and its social media pages sharing the video on page one of search results. But links to both the organization’s website and its Twitter post appear in Bing’s and DuckDuckGo’s top four search results on page one.
O’Keefe called Google’s bias “an indication of the coziness between powerful organizations through the reciprocity of their shared interests.”
None of Google’s page one search results lead users to Project Veritas’s original report on the video or its social media accounts. Instead, the search giant showed results for an absurd combination of news reports. Google displays in its search results news reporting from The Hill’s morning show “Rising,” Indian news outlets like CNN-News18 and OpIndia and a link to the Soros-funded Poynter Institute’s summary of a Georgian fact-check.
For a search engine that claims to present “the most relevant, useful results,” it sure missed the mark.