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The media is very biased
In 2016 they lied about Russian disinformation.
In 2020 they lied in claiming the Hunter Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation"
In 2024, it continues. The debate moderators 'fact check Trump,
but let Harris lie all she wants.
Here the computer companies rig all search results.

Google buries Trump campaign website under hit pieces
Various Google logos are displayed on a Google search, Monday, Sept. 11,
2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times - Thursday, September 26, 2024
A study has found that Google is hiding former President Donald Trump’s campaign website under stories written by liberal news outlets while
searches of Vice President Kamala Harris display flattering results and
her campaign website more prominently.

The Media Research Center, a conservative watchdog group, analyzed
searches for both candidates on Sept. 6 and found “Donald Trump
presidential race 2024” produced negative news from liberal media
outlets at the top of the search results. Mr. Trump’s campaign website appeared sixth in results, underneath stories from The New York Times,
Politico and The Washington Post.

Ms. Harris’ campaign website was much easier to find, the MRC study discovered. It showed up much higher in the Google search, and nearly
all the news stories above it were favorable and written by left-leaning outlets.

Dan Schneider, vice president of the Media Research Center’s Free Speech America program, said the search engine previously made it even more
difficult to find Mr. Trump’s campaign website but has shifted tactics
and is now placing it below liberal news reports about the former
president, which tend to be negative.

“The big difference now is that Google puts a series of newspaper
articles above search results, and for Donald Trump, all those newspaper articles, or media articles, are from left-wing outlets, and all those
stories are harsh about Donald Trump,” Mr. Schneider said. “All the articles that Google produces above Kamala Harris’ website are puff
pieces about her.”

Google did not immediately respond to an inquiry about the MRC study.
The company told Fox News that the study “looked at a single, rare
search term, on a single day, several weeks ago, and even for that
search, both candidates’ websites ranked in the top results on Google.”

For years, the tech giant has been accused of favoring Democrats over Republicans, and critics point to employee campaign donations to support
their claims.

According to the data company Quiver Quantitative, Google ranked first
among the top 20 donors to the Harris campaign as of September, spending
$1.46 million on her bid. Microsoft ranked second in Harris donations,
spending $743,045 on her campaign.

Neither Google nor Microsoft appears on the list of top 20 donors to the
Trump campaign.

“Google & Microsoft very disproportionately donate to the Democratic Party,” X owner Elon Musk posted earlier this week. “Between them, they control close to 100% of web browsers and search. Even with the best of intentions, they can’t help but introduce bias.”

Separate Google searches performed by The Washington Times on Thursday
for “Donald Trump” and “Kamala Harris” showed different treatments for the two candidates.

The search for Mr. Trump’s name showed his campaign website buried under
a block of unflattering photos and news stories.

A search of Ms. Harris’ name immediately returned ActBlue’s “Official Harris 2024 Website,” a fundraising site paid for by the Harris Victory
Fund political action committee, as the top result. ActBlue is the
Democratic Party’s online fundraising machine.

No. 2 result was her campaign website and a block of flattering photos
and biographical information. The next result was Ms. Harris’ official
White House page, followed by news stories about Ms. Harris’ meeting
Thursday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. A succession of
her social media pages appear underneath the news stories.

The results for a search of Mr. Trump’s name produced starkly different results. There was no sign of WinRed, the Republicans’ online
fundraising tool. Mr. Trump’s official campaign website could be found
only after scrolling past several smirking photos of the former
president and unfriendly opinion pieces, including a New York Times
column headlined “The Dangers of Donald Trump, From Those Who Know Him”
and the Esquire magazine headline “I Feel Compelled to Point Out That
Donald Trump Sounds Absolutely Insane.”

By midafternoon, the Trump search results had shifted to include a story
on Ms. Harris leading Mr. Trump in several polls, a CNN story on Mr.
Trump “icing out Zelenskyy,” and a New Republic magazine piece titled “Trump’s Newest Grift Just Dropped — and It’s Hideous.”

No Republican or Trump fundraising pages appeared anywhere in the search.

A search for the Republican Party’s WinRed site instead returned a top
result of an ActBlue page sponsored by the Democratic Party to raise
funds for Senate Democratic candidates.

It was followed by the WinRed “directory” page, a series of WinRed posts
on X, and an Al Jazeera news headline that WinRed “misleads U.S.
consumers into recurring donations” and several other unflattering
pieces about the fundraising site.

A search of ActBlue turned up the ActBlue page as the top result, and no reference to WinRed. Near the bottom of the search page was a link to a
press release from the Texas attorney general’s office about an
investigation into whether ActBlue is complying with laws governing
credit card donations.

Google has been accused of manipulating its algorithm in a way that
disfavors Mr. Trump.

In July, after the first attempted assassination of Mr. Trump, users
noticed Google’s autocomplete feature would fill in President Harry Truman’s name after “assassination attempt on Trum…”

In other searches, users found that in searches of “President Donald Trump,” the autocomplete feature would fill in “President Donald Duck,” or former Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, who served in the 1980s.

Google has also faced criticism over its AI feature and was forced to
roll it back when users discovered, among other flaws, that it could not
create images of White people.

In July, Mr. Trump slammed Google and Meta, the parent company of
Facebook, for initially censoring the now-iconic photo of him pumping
his fist in the air after the assassination attempt at his campaign
rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in which a bullet grazed and bloodied his
right ear.

“Both are facing BIG BACKLASH OVER CENSORSHIP CLAIMS. Here we go again, another attempt at RIGGING THE ELECTION!!! GO AFTER META AND GOOGLE. LET
THEM KNOW WE ARE ALL WISE TO THEM, WILL BE MUCH TOUGHER THIS TIME.
MAGA2024!” Mr. Trump posted on his Truth Social media site.

Facebook said the photo censoring was an error. Google said the
autocomplete problem with Mr. Trump’s name was a glitch that was corrected.

• Susan Ferrechio can be reached at sferrechio@washingtontimes.com.

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