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Google is reportedly “hiding” the Trump campaign’s website while featuring Joe Biden’s campaign at the top of search results, according to a new report.
MRC Free Speech America uncovered evidence of Google’s bias through a set of search queries related to the two campaigns, along with other presidential candidates still in the race, shared in a Wednesday news release.
“Google is blatantly interfering in the 2024 election,” said MRC President Brent Bozell.
The research showed that Google suppressed the Trump campaign’s website and elevated the Biden campaign’s site as the first search result.
The search site also excluded the only two major pro-life candidates from the top three search results, singling out Trump and Constitution Party candidate for president Randall Terry. Every other candidate appeared in the top three results.
In a search for “Republican Party presidential campaign websites,” the Trump campaign’s website was the 39th result, just below the link to Democrats.org.
A search for “Democratic Party presidential campaign websites” listed the Biden campaign as the first result.
A search comparing other presidential candidates found Independent candidate Cornel West and Green Party candidate Jill Stein each appeared as the first result for their searches. Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Libertarian Party candidate Chase Oliver each appeared as the third result in the research.
MRC Vice President Dan Schneider echoed Bozell’s remark about Google’s election interference: “Google has all but declared Joe Biden as the only major candidate running for president, or at least that’s what its search results suggest. Pushing Biden to the top of search results, while burying Trump just before one of the most consequential debates in our nation’s history is just the tip of the iceberg of this tech behemoth’s history of election-interfering censorship.”
The issue is significant given that Google is the world’s largest search engine, with over 90 percent of all search traffic.
MRC Free Speech America also noted past research involving 41 previous times Google was caught interfering in U.S. elections between 2008 and 2024. Additional details related to the methodology used in the report can be found here.
