Former President Donald Trump has vowed that his administration will seek to prosecute Google if he wins in November, claiming that the corporate’s search engine only promotes “bad stories” about him.
Trump made the threat on his Truth Social account on Friday after a damning study found that the Big Tech giant was burying results for his campaign website below those of Democratic rival Kamala Harris’ official site — and spitting out articles that favor the Vice President.
“It has been determined that Google has illegally used a system of only revealing and displaying bad stories about Donald J. Trump, some made up for this purpose while, at the identical time, only revealing good stories about Comrade Kamala Harris,” the Republican presidential candidate wrote.
“That is an ILLEGAL ACTIVITY, and hopefully the Justice Department will criminally prosecute them for this blatant interference of Elections.”
If the DOJ officials under a second Trump administration decline to pursue charges against the corporate, “I’ll request their prosecution, at the utmost levels, once I win the Election, and grow to be President of america!” he concluded.
The Post has sought comment from Google.
Trump’s ire follows a study by the Media Research Center that analyzed search results of two separate Google queries — “Donald Trump presidential race 2024” and “Kamala Harris presidential race 2024.”
The search by MRC Free Speech America researchers for Harris’ campaign, conducted Sept. 6, yielded a result that was third — below articles in regards to the Democratic candidate suggested largely from left-leaning outlets like The Latest York Times, Washington Post and Politico that favor Harris.
The identical query for Trump turned up within the sixth spot on the primary result page, beneath critical content in regards to the Republican from the identical outlets — with no results from conservative publications just like the Latest York Post.
“Google is attempting to stack the deck in favor of Kamala Harris,” Media Research Center founder Brent Bozell told Fox News Digital.
“Google’s search engine pushes left-wing media articles favoring Kamala Harris and slamming Donald Trump. Don’t trust Google searches.”
A Google spokesperson denied the claims made by MRC.
“Each campaign web sites consistently appear at the highest of Seek for relevant and customary search queries,” an organization spokesperson said in response to the report.
“This report checked out a single rare search term on a single day several weeks ago, and even for that search, each candidates’ web sites ranked in the highest results on Google.”
Last month, Google was criticized for allegedly skewing search results about Trump’s candidacy in addition to omitting the assassination attempt on the previous president from its AutoCorrect function.
