On his Truth Social media platform, Republican presidential contender Donald Trump vowed to sue Google if reelected this November over the tech giant's alleged bias in search results.
According to Trump, Google Search pulls up lots of positive stories about Kamala Harris, his Democrat rival, while simultaneously pulling up lots of negative stories about himself, which he finds upsetting.
Trump wrote that he hopes the Department of Justice (DOJ) will criminally prosecute the Alphabet company for "blatant interference of elections." If he gets into the White House a second time, Trump plans to "request their prosecution," he says.
"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 same time, only revealing good stories about Comrade Kamala Harris," Trump griped.
(Related: Did you catch what Google growth strategist Dakota Leazer had to say about how Google manipulates its search engine results to favor Kamala over Trump?)
Media Research Center confirms Google favors Kamala over Trump
The conservative media watchdog group Media Research Center published the results of a study it conducted recently which seems to back Trump's complaints. The study determined that Google features the Kamala campaign's website much more prominently than the Trump campaign's website.
In response to the study, Google denied that it manipulates search results to favor of any particular candidate. A company spokesperson told Fox News Digital that "both campaign websites consistently appear at the top of Search for relevant and common search queries."
Trump is not accepting this excuse, though. He says that Google prioritizes "fake news," a term he came up with back in 2016 to describe what CNN and other similar cable news networks publish and air. In Trump's view, Google's search results are "rigged" against him and other conservatives.
Billionaire electric vehicle (EV) guru Elon Musk agrees with Trump. Back in July, the SpaceX leader shared a screenshot of a page showing the term "President Donald" in Google's search box. The autocomplete would not properly complete the term as "President Donald Trump," instead choosing to autocomplete it as "President Donald Duck" and "President Donald Reagan."
According to a Google representative who spoke to NBC News at the time, there were "issues" that day that caused the autocomplete feature to display incorrect information pertaining to Trump. The representative promised that Google was "looking into these anomalies and working on improvements."
"I feel like Trump has sold out in full to the Zionists," one commenter wrote, suspicious of Trump's populist narrative. "He isn't offering any real solutions this time and is just blowing hot air and keeping everyone riled up."
"In 2016, he gave me hope, but now he is just the opposite side of the same coin. Divide and conquer is the order of the day and he is doing his part."
Another agreed with Trump that "all media are anti-Trump and pro-war," Trump being one of the only major politicians to oppose the constant warmongering of the United States empire. At the same time, this person recognized that Trump talks a big game after four previous years in the Oval Office not doing what he promised he would do the first time around.
"It's not enough to just call them fake news because they know and just return the words 10 times. He could have done something against media when he was president."
Someone else wrote that Google "censors like crazy" and is guilty of "cherry-picking" the results its wants people to see rather than displaying the results that people actually want to see.
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