Last week, the Media Research Center released results of a study comparing Google results for a search on Vice President Kamala Harris and the 2024 presidential election with a search for former President Donald Trump and the election. The MRC not only found that Harris’s official website got higher placement than Trump’s in search results but that news articles in each search were overwhelmingly favorable to Harris in her results while Trump’s featured openly critical articles.
Media Research Center founder Brent Bozell summed this up succinctly, charging Google with trying to “stack the deck in favor of Kamala Harris.” A few days after the revelation, Trump took to Truth Social to demand that the Justice Department investigate Google and prosecute any wrongdoing it may find. Predictably, a Google press representative dismissed the MRC study as flawed and denied using the search engine for electioneering.
