JUST IN: New Report Reveals SHOCKING Extent of Google Election Interference Since 2008

A new report just dropped by conservative watchdog The Media Research Center revealed the crazy extent to which Google has interfered in the past four U.S. election cycles.

According to the report’s findings, Google has interfered a total of 41 times to suppress Republican candidates and help Democrats win elections!

The MRC’s report accused the big tech giant of utilizing “its power to help push to electoral victory the most liberal candidates…while targeting their opponents for censorship.”

Take a look at the breaking new report on social media:

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

Patrick Webb broke down the details of the report’s findings in a series of posts on X:

According to a report by the Media Research Center, Google “targeted support for Hillary Clinton for censorship” by “suspending the accounts of writers who wrote blogs critical of Obama during his primary race against Clinton.”

— Patrick Webb (@RealPatrickWebb) March 18, 2024

The report also alleges that Google manipulated searches which “targeted” Tulsi Gabbard, Mitt Romney, and Herschel Walker during their political campaigns.

— Patrick Webb (@RealPatrickWebb) March 18, 2024

Elon Musk chimed in on the topic, calling the MRC’s report an understatement.

According to Musk, Google really interfered THOUSANDS of times each election season…

This article understates the magnitude of the problem – Google interferes to help Democrats thousands of times every election season!

This is to be expected when their censorship (aka “Trust & Safety”) teams are have far left political views. https://t.co/y36yzdzIUQ

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 18, 2024

The New York Post has more details on the ground-breaking report:

Google has been putting its thumb on the scale to help Democratic candidates win the presidency in the last four election cycles during which it censored Republicans, according to a right-leaning media watchdog.

The Media Research Center published a report alleging 41 instances of “election interference” by the search engine since 2008.

The MRC published a report accusing Google of having “utilized its power to help push to electoral victory the most liberal candidates…while targeting their opponents for censorship.”

The report comes weeks after AllSides conducted an analysis which found that news aggregator Google News skewed even more off the charts in 2023.

Fox News also reported:

Google has “interfered” with major elections in the United States 41 times over the last 16 years, according to a new study from the Media Research Center.

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“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,” MRC Free Speech America vice president Dan Schneider and editor Gabriela Pariseau wrote in a summary of their findings.

“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 continued. “Google’s outsized influence on information technology, the body politic and American elections became evident in 2008. 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, 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, a division of the conservative Media Research Center, believes the most recent example was recorded after Google artificial intelligence Gemini “refused to answer questions damaging” to President Biden.

The group’s research found that from 2008 through February 2024, “Google has utilized its power to help push to electoral victory the most liberal candidates, regardless of party, while targeting their opponents for censorship.”

Examples include appearing to favor Barack Obama over John McCain in 2008, favoring Obama over Mitt Romney in 2012, refusing to correct a “Google bomb” that “smeared” then-leading GOP primary candidate for president Rick Santorum, using its algorithm to exclude autofill results that were potentially damaging to Hilly Clinton in 2016, “not doing the same for then-candidates Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders,” and working with partners to help likely pro-Clinton Latino voters go to the polls that same year, according to MRC Free Speech America.

Other examples cited by the MRC include disabling Tulsi Gabbard’s Ads account just as she became the most searched candidate following the first Democratic Party primary debate in 2020, suppressing news critical of Biden, concealing most Republican campaign websites for the 12 competitive Senate races in 2022, and aiding Biden in 2024 by “burying in its search results the campaign websites of every one of his significant opponents.”

The full MRC report on Google’s interference in elections can be read here.