Google 'Interfered’ In Elections 41 Times Over Last 16 Years, New Study Finds

Last month, we published a column forewarning that interference via the censorship industrial complex looms over the 2024 election. 

We cited House Judiciary Committee filings from November detailing how a network of government agencies conspired with social media services to censor Americans for holding disfavored views about Joe Biden in 2020.

Our lawmakers have done nothing to prevent such interference from happening again in 2024. Absolutely nothing. 

It gets worse.

On Monday, the Media Research Center published a study concluding that Google "interfered" in major elections in the United States "41 times over the last 16 years."

"[Google's impact] has surged dramatically, making it evermore harmful to democracy. In every case, Google harmed the candidates – regardless of party – who threatened its left-wing candidate of choice," said MRC vice president Dan Schneider and editor Gabriela Pariseau in a summary of their findings. 

Schneider and  Pariseau added the following:

"From the mouths of Google executives, the tech giant let slip what was never meant to be made public: That Google uses its "great strength and resources and reach" to advance its leftist values.

"Google’s outsized influence on information technology, the body politic and American elections became evident in 2008. After failing to prevent then-candidate for president Donald Trump from being inaugurated following the 2016 election, Google has since made clear to any discerning observer that it has been — and will continue — interfering in America’s elections."

As expected, Google's efforts disproportionately favored liberal candidates. 

 "Google has utilized its power to help push to electoral victory the most liberal candidates, regardless of party, while targeting their opponents for censorship," found the study.

For example, Google disabled Tulsi Gabbard’s Ads account just as she became the most searched candidate following the first Democratic Party primary debate in 2020.

Google also suppressed news critical of Biden by "burying in its search results the campaign websites of every one of his significant opponents."

"While its interference was first evident in 2008, its meddling has turned into an organizational mission to ensure that its candidates win on election day," added the report. "Many studies reveal the results of the tech giant’s commitment."

Google denied any wrongdoing. 

As it did in 2020 when research psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein conducted a study in which he found evidence that Google's search results during the weeks and months before the election presented a "strong bias in favor of Democrats."

"We found a period of days where the vote reminder on Google's homepage was being sent only to liberals," Epstein exclaimed. "Not one of our conservative field agents received the vote reminder."

"The bias was being shown to pretty much every demographic. This includes conservatives. Conservatives got more liberal bias in their search results than liberals."

Epstein concluded that Google's antics shifted at "least six million votes in favor" of Joe Biden. "That's the bare minimum," he noted.

Google interfered in the 2020 election for its preferred candidate. It was as blatant as it was obvious.

And it's happening again. 

Over the weekend, Google's algorithm emerged as the leading source for the Donald Trump "Bloodbath" hoax. Users had to scroll to the second page of the site just to find an article providing the full context of Trump's statement:

Google holds a 92 percent market share of all U.S. search engines. Its influence is near-monolithic, as I discussed on the Will Cain Show on Monday.

Voters see what Google allows them to see. 

How all of that is not a bigger story is an ugly indictment of the entire media industry, an industry that shares the same moral obligation to prevent Trump from returning to the White House as Big Tech.

Donald Trump is the favorite to win the election in November, claims most polls and betting markets. And only a sucker would believe Big Tech won't exhaust every resource it can – legal or not -- to prevent Trump from winning the election, as it did four years ago.