Former President Donald Trump has threatened to prosecute Google, accusing the tech giant of bias and unfair practices. Discover more about the ongoing tensions between Trump and major tech platforms.
Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump has announced that he will sue Google if he is re-elected in November. He accused the tech giant of deliberately spreading negative stories about him to support his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump expressed hope that the Justice Department would charge Alphabet Inc.’s Google with “blatant election manipulation,” adding that he would “seek prosecution” if he is re-elected.
“We have determined that Google has illegally used a system that only reveals and displays bad stories about Donald J. Trump, some of which have been fabricated for this purpose, while also only revealing good stories about Comrade Kamala Harris,” the former president said in the post.
Earlier this month, conservative media watchdog Media Research Center released findings suggesting that Google favors Harris’s campaign website in search results over the official Trump campaign website.
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The tech giant dismissed the findings, saying it doesn’t manipulate search results to favor any particular political party. A Google spokesperson told Fox News Digital at the time that “sites from both campaigns consistently appear at the top of search results for related general searches.” Fake news is being “manipulated” against him and other conservatives. Google denied the allegations.
In July, American tech billionaire Elon Musk accused the company of being biased against Republican candidates. He shared a screenshot of a page where the query “President Donald” was typed into the search bar. The records show that Google’s autocomplete feature, which suggests results based on the words typed, didn’t show “President Donald Trump,” but instead showed “President Donald Duck” and “President Donald Reagan.”
A Google representative told NBC News at the time that there was a glitch with the autocomplete feature that day. The company is currently examining these anomalies and striving to enhance them, he stated.
