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A new study by the Media Research Center shows that Google is pushing left-wing news articles and burying the Republican candidate’s website.
MRC Founder Brent Bozell told Fox News Digital that Google can’t be trusted by anyone looking for unbiased information as America heads into the 2024 election.
“Google is trying to stack the deck in favor of [Vice President] Kamala Harris,” he said. “Google’s search engine pushes left-wing media articles favoring Kamala Harris and slamming [former President] Donald Trump. Don’t trust Google searches.”
A study conducted on September 6 aimed to find if there were any discrepancies between the search results for “Donald Trump presidential race 2024” and “Kamala Harris presidential race 2024.” While one might expect such general searches to turn up recent news coverage and campaign websites, the reality is slightly different.
“In the past, Google buried the campaign websites of Republican candidates. Now the search giant very clearly pads its search results about political candidates with leftist legacy news articles, many of which are hostile to Republicans and either neutral or favorable toward Democrats,” explained MRC Free Speech America Associate Editor Gabriela Pariseau in a recap of the study results.
“Readers will have to sift through the biased news before they even see the organic results of their searches, let alone a candidate’s website,” she continued.
A search of “Donald Trump presidential race 2024,” turned up the former president’s campaign website as the sixth search result.
“But before reaching Trump’s website, readers would see options to click on seven articles from left-wing sources. The New York Times, Politico, and The Washington Post were listed under the ‘Top Stories’ panel,” Pariseau revealed.
“Once MRC researchers reached the actual search results, Google displayed a link to an article from The Economist titled ‘Donald Trump v Kamala Harris: who’s ahead in the polls?’ Additionally, the results showed CNN’s elections page along with a link to its live election updates. Google also displayed a link to NBC’s live election updates page,” she added, also mentioning that MRC NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham noted “blatant leftist bias” in many of the suggested articles.
But in searching “Kamala Harris presidential race 2024,” MRC noticed something a little different; her campaign website came up third in organic results, which suggested articles also coming from left-leaning sites.
“Nearly every article that appeared above Harris’s website in search results related to historian Allan Lichtman’s prediction that Harris will win the 2024 election,” Pariseau said. “This overt leftist bias is especially concerning considering that according to a November 2023 Pew Research survey, a rising number of American adults receive their news from search.”
This is important because a small but significant percentage of Americans admit to getting their news from search results.
“The study found that 15 percent of U.S. adults prefer to get their news from search engines which is up from 13 percent in 2022 and 11 percent in 2021,” the MRC study said.
A Google spokesperson dismissed the results.
“Both campaign websites consistently appear at the top of Search for relevant and common search queries. This report looked at a single rare search term on a single day over a month ago, and even for that search, both candidates’ websites ranked in the top results on Google,” the spox said to Fox News Digital.
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MRC Free Speech America researchers also feel the placement of Trump and Harris’s websites is noteworthy. A 2023 study conducted by Search Engine Optimization expert Brian Dean found that the sixth result on search engines — where Google placed Trump’s website — typically receives just under half as many click-throughs as the third result, which is where Google placed Harris’ website.
“This comes after a previous MRC Free Speech America study that prompted Google with searches about Kamala Harris found that Google favored leftist media outlets at a rate of 17:2 in Google Search and 19:2 in the Google News tab across four queries,” Pariseau pointed out.
MRC clarified that they use “clean” devices to make the searches, so results are not influenced by a search algorithm or cookies from previous search results.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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