Billionaire X owner Elon Musk said Google “interferes to assist Democrats 1000’s of times every election season” after The Post detailed a watchdog group’s claims that the search giant allegedly boosts Dems while censoring Republicans.
As The Post reported, a right-leaning watchdog called the Media Research Center (MRC) published a evaluation detailing what it described as 41 alleged instances of “election interference” at the net search giant since 2008.
Musk quote-tweeted a screenshot of the article and asserted that it “understates the magnitude of the issue.”
“Google interferes to assist Democrats 1000’s of times every election season!” Musk wrote on X. “That is to be expected when their censorship (aka ‘Trust & Safety’) teams are have [sic] far left political opinions.”
Google didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment on Musk’s tweet.
Elon Musk tweeted about The Post’s article.
Critics have recently accused Google of injecting its Gemini AI chatbot with political bias after it began generating ahistorical and factually inaccurate “diverse” images. Scrutiny accelerated after tweets wherein Gemini’s product lead espoused far-left viewpoints went viral on X.
In its report, the MRC accused Google of using “its power to assist push to electoral victory probably the most liberal candidates…while targeting their opponents for censorship.”
The watchdog cited a 2008 incident wherein Google purportedly purportedly helped then-Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ailing.) candidacy during his showdown Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The MRC alleged that 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.”
Elon Musk accused Google of political bias and censorship. Getty Images
In the course of the 2012 election, the watchdog group said Google had “once more favored Obama” over Republican nominee Mitt Romney. The corporate allegedly refused to correct a “Google bomb” targeting GOP primary candidate Rick Santorum, the report said.
The MRC also pointed to data from Dr. Robert Epstein, who once testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that “biased search resulted generated by Google’s search algorithm” shifted “no less than 2.6 million votes to Hillary Clinton.”
A source near the corporate said Epstein’s research has been “widely debunked.”
The media watchdog’s report also cited several other alleged examples of interference or bias, including a 2020 instance wherein it alleged “targeted” the presidential campaign of former Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and its alleged suppression of “news sources critical of [Joe] Biden.”
Google pushed back on the MRC’s report.
Google has denied wrongdoing. IB Photography – stock.adobe.com
“There is completely nothing recent here — only a recycled list of baseless, inaccurate complaints which have been debunked by third parties and plenty of that failed within the courts,” a Google spokesperson said in a press release.
“Politicians on the left have an extended history of creating similar claims, too,” the corporate rep added. “Now we have a transparent business incentive to maintain everyone using our products, so we’ve got no desire to make them biased or inaccurate and have safeguards in place to make sure this.”
The Google spokesperson said that “quite a few conservatives have been particularly successful in using our platforms to spread their message to a large audience.”
