The US Republican presidential candidate has accused the search engine of unfairly favoring his Democratic rival, VP Kamala Harris
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has vowed to take legal action against Google if he wins the November election. He claims the company intentionally displays negative news about him and favors his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he hopes the Department of Justice will prosecute Alphabet’s Google for “blatant Interference of elections,” and that he will “request their prosecution” if he is reelected.
“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,” the former president stated.
Earlier this month, the Media Research Center, a conservative media watchdog, published a study suggesting that Google has placed Harris’ campaign website in a more prominent position in its search results compared to the Trump campaign’s official site.
The tech giant rejected these findings, stating that it does not manipulate search results to favor any specific party. A Google spokesperson told Fox News Digital: “Both campaign websites consistently appear at the top of Search for relevant and common search queries.”
Trump previously accused the tech company of prioritizing “fake news” in its search results, alleging that they are “rigged” against him and other conservatives. Google denied these allegations.
In July, US tech billionaire Elon Musk accused the company of being biased against the Republican candidate. He shared a screenshot of a search page where the query ‘President Donald’ was entered. The image showed how Google’s autocomplete feature, which suggests words based on user input, did not offer ‘President Donald Trump’, but instead displayed ‘President Donald Duck’ and ‘President Donald Reagan’.
At the time, a Google representative told NBC News that the autocomplete feature was experiencing technical issues that day, and stated that the company was “looking into these anomalies and working on improvements.”