Elon Musk, the owner of Billionaire “They are also blocking support for the Democratic Party.”
As the Post reported, a right-wing watchdog group called the Media Research Center (MRC) released a detailed analysis of 41 allegations of “election interference” at the online search giant since 2008.
Musk tweeted a screenshot of the article, claiming that it was “underestimating the magnitude of the problem.”
“Google intervenes to help Democrats thousands of times every election season!” Mr. Musk wrote about X. “This is to be expected when their censorship (aka ‘Trust & Safety’) team is in charge. [sic] Far left political views. ”
Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Musk’s tweet.
Critics recently accused Google of injecting political bias into its Gemini AI chatbot after it began generating ahistorical and factually inaccurate “diverse” images. ing. The scrutiny accelerated after a tweet from Gemini’s product leader endorsing far-left views went viral on X.
In its report, the MRC accused Google of “using its power to win elections for the most liberal candidates while targeting censorship.”
The watchdog group cited a 2008 incident in which Google allegedly helped then-Sen. Barack Obama (Democrat, Illinois) is running against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The MRC claimed that Google “targeted support for Hillary Clinton for censorship purposes” by “suspending the accounts of writers who wrote blogs critical of Obama during the Clinton primary.”
During the 2012 election, the watchdog group said Google “again favored Mr. Obama” over Republican candidate Mitt Romney. The company reportedly refused to modify a “Google bomb” targeting Republican primary candidate Rick Santorum.
The MRC also pointed to data from Dr. Robert Epstein, who once testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that “biased search results generated by Google’s search algorithms” shifted “at least 2.6 million votes to Hillary Clinton.”
A person close to the company said Epstein’s research had been “widely debunked.”
The media watchdog’s report cited several other examples of alleged interference and bias, including an allegation that former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s presidential campaign was “targeted.” This includes the case in 2020, as well as the media watchdog’s alleged crackdown on “news sources critical of the media.” [Joe] It’s Biden. ”
Google pushed back on the MRC report.
In a statement, a Google spokesperson said: “There’s nothing new here; we’re simply reusing a list of many baseless and inaccurate complaints that have been debunked by third parties and lost in court.” said.
“Left-leaning politicians have a long history of making similar claims,” the company representative added. “We have a clear business incentive to keep everyone using our products, so we don’t want to introduce bias or inaccuracies into our products, and we have a safe and secure approach to ensuring this. We are taking measures.”
A Google spokesperson said: “Many conservatives have been particularly successful in using our platform to spread their message to a wide audience.”