Republican presidential candidate and former US president Donald Trump speaks to reporters at Trump Tower in New York City, US, on September 26, 2024. Reuters/David Dee Delgado
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Donald Trump called out Friday. google A Republican presidential candidate is expected to face criminal charges for calling out the company’s bias online against his campaign opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. Search results.
President Trump wrote in a social media post: Ministry of Justice Google will not prosecute “for this blatant election interference” and will request prosecution “if I win the election and become President of the United States”!
He seemed to be reacting to new research from the right. Media Research Centeror MRC, shows that if a user searches for “Donald Trump Presidential Election 2024,” Google’s search engine results will show news articles allegedly favorable to Democrat Harris before Trump’s own campaign website. He is said to have discovered that there is a tendency for
In a post on Truth Social, President Trump said, “We have discovered that Google was illegally using a system to publish and display only bad stories about Donald J. Trump, some of which were used for this purpose. “It was just made up for the sake of it and exposed at the same time.” Good story about Comrade Kamala Harris. ”
U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks at an event hosted by the Economic Club of Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University on September 25, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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said MRC founder Brent Bozell. fox news digital On Wednesday, he said, “Google is trying to build a solid foundation in support of Kamala Harris.”
When contacted by CNBC about Trump’s post, a Google spokesperson pointed to the company’s previous statement regarding the report.
Google said at the time that “both campaign websites consistently appear at the top of search results for common, relevant search queries.” “This report examines a single rare search term on a single day several weeks ago for which both candidates’ websites ranked among the top results on Google.”
The spokesperson also said on Friday that the MRC’s report considered “very unusual questions” and said the report’s conclusions were wrong.
“Questions about presidential elections and candidates typically provide links to news articles that constantly change to reflect what’s happening on the web, so news articles are constantly changing,” the spokesperson said. “We never manipulate search results to favor candidates.”
“In fact, news outlets report that Google results for these queries rank the Trump campaign website higher than other search engine results.”
Harris’ campaign had no immediate comment on Trump’s claims.
CNBC has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.
