Forget the 2020 elections.
For the last 16 years, Google has been interfering in U.S. elections, according to the Media Research Center (MRC), which found 41 instances in which the Big Tech giant went after candidates who opposed their preferred choice.
In a summary of their findings, MRC Free Speech America vice president Dan Schneider and editor Gabriela Pariseau warned of Google’s “impact” on democracy.
“MRC researchers have found 41 times where Google interfered in elections over the last 16 years, and its impact has surged dramatically, making it evermore harmful to democracy. In every case, Google harmed the candidates – regardless of party – who threatened its left-wing candidate of choice,” they stated.
Breaking MRC report finds @Google has systematically used its enormous control over information to manipulate every major U.S. election since 2008.
https://t.co/DaPuB8xiGE— Brent Bozell (@BrentBozell) March 18, 2024
Google executives, they noted, said the quiet part out loud.
“From the mouths of Google executives, the tech giant let slip what was never meant to be made public: That Google uses its ‘great strength and resources and reach’ to advance its leftist values,” they wrote.
“Google’s outsized influence on information technology, the body politic and American elections became evident in 2008,” they continued. “After failing to prevent then-candidate for president Donald Trump from being inaugurated following the 2016 election, Google has since made clear to any discerning observer that it has been — and will continue — interfering in America’s elections.”
“Google pushed back,” Fox News Digital reports, “insisting it has a ‘clear business incentive’ to keep both sides happy and that safeguards ensure non-biased and accurate search results.”
MRC Free Speech America points to Gemini, Google’s disaster of an artificial intelligence chatbot, which “refused to answer questions damaging” to President Biden as the latest example of Google’s interference.
Jordan, GOP call on Google to disclose Biden White House role in developing ‘woke’ Gemini AI https://t.co/etdzx01F96 via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) March 3, 2024
“MRC Free Speech America research shows that throughout a 16-year period (from 2008 through February 2024), carefully crafted studies and numerous reports have consistently demonstrated the tech behemoth’s election meddling,” the summary states.
“Utilizing the many tools in its arsenal, Google aided those who most closely aligned with its leftist values from election cycle to election cycle since as far back as the 2008 presidential election,” the group found. “Meanwhile, it targeted for censorship those candidates who posed the most serious threat.”
Favoring Barack Obama over Republican John McCain in 2008, Google also “targeted support for Hillary Clinton for censorship, suspending the accounts of writers who wrote blogs critical of Obama during his primary race against Clinton,” according to Schneider and Pariseau.
In 2012, “Google once again favored Obama over Mitt Romney, and inconsistent with its stated policy, the tech giant refused to correct a ‘Google bomb’ that smeared leading GOP primary candidate for president Rick Santorum,” they wrote.
In 2016, the company “pushed Clinton, using its algorithm to exclude potentially damaging autofill results while not doing the same for then-candidates Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders.”
“Google also worked with ‘partners’ to help likely pro-Clinton Latino voters go to the polls,” Schneider and Pariseau wrote.
And the list of interference examples continues.
In 2020, “Google targeted Tulsi Gabbard for censorship, disabling Gabbard’s Ads account just as she became the most searched candidate following the first Democratic Party primary debate.”
“The tech giant also suppressed news sources critical of Biden and reportedly blocked GOP fundraising emails from reaching users’ inboxes,” the research revealed. “Google search results and even get-out-the-vote reminders favored Democrats, shifting the 2020 election results away from Trump and the GOP by at least 6 million votes.”
Not even the 2022 midterms were safe from Google’s meddling.
That year, “Google buried most Republican campaign websites for the 12 competitive Senate races (10 of 12 did not make the top 6 search results and 7 did not even make the first page of search results),” according to Schneider and Pariseau. “Also, 61 percent of the stories included on the Google News homepage linked to leftist news media outlets. Meanwhile, only three percent linked to right-leaning news media outlets (this 20 to 1 disparity was based on AllSides data).”
And it isn’t likely to surprise Independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, Jr., that, in 2024, Google buried “in its search results the campaign websites of every one of his significant opponents,” including his, Trump’s “and every other Republican polling at or above 1%.”
“When searching for ‘Republican presidential campaign websites,’ Google returned Democrat Marianne Williamson, but not Trump, DeSantis, Haley, etc.,” the research found. “Finally, Google artificial intelligence, Gemini (formerly Bard), refused to give responses to prompts regarding two of Biden’s biggest weaknesses: (1) the president’s mental health and (2) the ongoing border crisis.”
Google dismissed the findings, calling them “a recycled list of baseless, inaccurate complaints.”
“There is absolutely nothing new here – just a recycled list of baseless, inaccurate complaints that have been debunked by third parties and many that failed in the courts,” a Google spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “Politicians on the left have a long history of making similar claims too. We have a clear business incentive to keep everyone using our products, so we have no desire to make them biased or inaccurate and have safeguards in place to ensure this. Numerous conservatives have been particularly successful in using our platforms to spread their message to a wide audience.”
“Google is making good on its 2016 promise never to let conservatives win again,” according to Schneider and Pariseau. “While its interference was first evident in 2008, its meddling has turned into an organizational mission to ensure that its candidates win on election day.”
In the wake of their findings, Schneider and Pariseau made several “recommendations, including calling on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to “direct relevant committees and committee chairmen to investigate Google for abridging people’s constitutional rights; for coordinating with government to violate freedom of speech; for interfering in elections by making unreported in-kind contributions; and for defrauding its users by failing to meet its Terms of Service.”
Additionally, “State legislatures should resolve any question of whether Google is a common carrier, which it is; and they can follow the lead of Texas and Florida to ensure that Big Tech cannot engage in viewpoint discrimination.”
Finally, Schneider and Pariseau stated, “Americans should stop using Google products, particularly Google Search and instead opt for one of the many alternatives.”
“From our research,” the duo wrote, “alternatives appear to produce better, less biased results.”
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