Google should be prosecuted for search results
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press at Trump Tower in New York City, U.S., September 26, 2024. REUTERS/David Dee Delgado
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Donald Trump on Friday called Google criminally prosecuted for what the Republican Party presidential candidate called the company’s favoritism towards him election Vice President’s opponent Kamala Harris online search results.
Trump in a social media post wrote that if Department of Justice not prosecute Google “for its blatant interference in the election” but he will demand that Google be prosecuted “when I win the election and become President of the United States!”
He appeared to be reacting to a new right-wing study Media Research Centerreportedly discovered that Google search engine results tended to show articles deemed positive about Democrat Harris before Trump’s own campaign website when users searched ” Donald Trump Presidential Race 2024.”
In his post on Truth Social, Trump wrote: “It has been determined that Google illegally used a system to only reveal and display unflattering stories about Donald J. Trump, some of which were fabricated for the purpose of This goal, at the same time, only reveals good stories about comrade Kamala Harris.”
Vice President of the United States and Democratic candidate for President Kamala Harris speaks at an event hosted by the Pittsburgh Economic Club at Carnegie Mellon University on September 25, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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MRC founder Brent Bozell said Fox News digital earlier this week that “Google is trying to stack the deck for Kamala Harris.”
CNBC asked Google’s parent company Alphabet as well as the Trump and Harris campaigns for comment.
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