{"id":2049922,"date":"2023-09-29T16:26:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T20:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-searches-favor-democrat-candidates-in-2024-presidential-race-media-watchdog\/"},"modified":"2023-09-29T16:26:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T20:26:03","slug":"google-searches-favor-democrat-candidates-in-2024-presidential-race-media-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-searches-favor-democrat-candidates-in-2024-presidential-race-media-watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Searches Favor Democrat Candidates in 2024 Presidential Race: Media Watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgoogle-searches-favor-democrat-candidates-in-2024-presidential-race-media-watchdog%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2049922&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<p>Google\u2019s search results on 2024 presidential candidates overlook Republicans while promoting Democrats, according to an analysis by media watchdog MRC Free Speech America.<\/p>\n<p>Between Sept. 20 and 25, MRC Free Speech America analyzed Google search results for three terms related to the upcoming elections\u2014\u201cpresidential campaign websites,\u201d \u201cRepublican presidential campaign websites,\u201d and \u201cDemocrat presidential campaign websites.\u201d The searches were made a week prior to the second Republican presidential primary debate on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>It found that search results were skewed heavily in favor of Democrats, with no notable Republican figures appearing on the first page, said MRC Free Speech America\u2019s Sept. 27 analysis.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode\">\n<div class=\"border-comp-divider mb-4 mr-4 w-full max-w-[500px] border px-5 py-4 text-[16px] leading-[20px] text-[#262626] md:float-left\" id=\"in_article_related_stories\">\n<h2 class=\"mb-3 font-sans text-[16px] font-semibold uppercase leading-[19px] text-[#2F2F2F]\">Related Stories<\/h2>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/trump-decides-against-transferring-georgia-election-case-to-federal-court-5500680?ea_src=author_manual&#038;ea_med=related_stories\"><\/p>\n<h3>Trump Decides Against Transferring Georgia Election Case to Federal Court<\/h3>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">9\/28\/2023<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/trump-decides-against-transferring-georgia-election-case-to-federal-court-5500680?ea_src=author_manual&#038;ea_med=related_stories\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/tory-mp-introduces-motion-to-expand-parliamentary-study-into-foreign-election-interference-5498975?ea_src=author_manual&#038;ea_med=related_stories\"><\/p>\n<h3>Tory MP Introduces Motion to Expand Parliamentary Study Into Foreign Election Interference<\/h3>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">9\/26\/2023<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/tory-mp-introduces-motion-to-expand-parliamentary-study-into-foreign-election-interference-5498975?ea_src=author_manual&#038;ea_med=related_stories\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>When MRC searched for \u201cRepublican presidential campaign websites,\u201d the websites of two candidates appeared on the first page of the search results\u2014author Marianne Williamson and former Rep. Will Hurd. While Ms. Williamson is not a Republican and is running for 2024 as a Democrat, Mr. Hurd is a Republican, polling at 0 percent as of Sept. 25, according to Morning Consult.<\/p>\n<p>Top Republican candidates for the 2024 race do not appear on the first page. This includes former President Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese results are so outrageous,\u201d said MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider. \u201cGoogle is either the most incompetent search engine on the planet, or it\u2019s intentional. This is not a coincidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode post-related-videos\">\n<div class=\"lazyload-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"lazyload-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>When MRC searched for \u201cdemocrat presidential campaign websites,\u201d Joe Biden\u2019s website appeared as the first result, with Ms. Williamson appearing in the second spot. However, the website of President Biden\u2019s strongest Democrat challenger and politically moderate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did not appear on the first page.<\/p>\n<p>MRC then did a third search, this time without mentioning the party of the candidate. For the term \u201cpresidential campaign websites,\u201d Google showed President Biden, Ms. Williamson, and even Sen. Elizabeth Warren\u2019s (D-Mass.) 2020 presidential campaign website on the first page. Not a single Republican candidate appeared on the first page of the results.<\/p>\n<p>MRC warned that conservatives \u201care under attack\u201d and asked supporters to take immediate action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContact Google at 650-253-0000 and demand it be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on so-called hate speech and equal footing for conservatives,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) criticized the allegedly biased Google search engine results. \u201cThis is ABSURD. Blatant election interference,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1707108686114484514\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in a Sept. 28 X post.  <\/p>\n<h2>Pushing Liberal Viewpoints, Negative Trump Coverage<\/h2>\n<p>  In addition to suppressing Republican campaign websites in the first page of search results, MRC\u2019s search for \u201crepublican presidential campaign websites\u201d produced links to articles where GOP candidates are covered by media outlets CNN, NBC News, The Associated Press, and Politico.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cEach of the liberal outlets made clear their bias against GOP front-runner and former President Donald Trump, primarily listing controversial flashpoints of his administration in their respective write-ups,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-figure\">\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>Former U.S. President Donald Trump disembarks his plane &#8220;Trump Force One&#8221; at Aberdeen Airport in Scotland on May 1, 2023. (Jeff J. Mitchell\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cCNN, for example, characterized Trump\u2019s criticisms of how the 2020 election was conducted as \u2018conspiracy theories.\u2019 Meanwhile, Politico touted [President] Trump\u2019s alleged \u2018numerous scandals,\u2019 while NBC and AP seemingly eagerly recounted recent criminal charges brought against the former president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An Aug. 21 analysis by MRC highlighted that broadcast evening news coverage of the 2024 Republican nomination was \u201coverwhelmingly dominated\u201d by President Trump, with other GOP candidates only receiving a \u201ctiny fraction\u201d of the attention.<\/p>\n<p>And much of the coverage of President Trump was not positive. \u201cThe vast majority of Trump\u2019s coverage (90 percent) has been negative, and heavily focused on the legal allegations made against him by Democratic prosecutors and the Biden Justice Department,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\u201cBut the networks\u2019 coverage of Trump\u2019s top GOP opponent, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, was nearly as bad (78 percent negative), suggesting a media hostility that extends beyond [President] Trump himself to other Republican candidates and their conservative policy positions.\u201d  <\/p>\n<h2>Google\u2019s Election Manipulation<\/h2>\n<p>  Experts have warned about the threat Google poses to free and fair elections. During a Sept. 5 hearing of the Arizona House Committee on Oversight, Accountability, and Big Tech, psychologist and researcher Robert Epstein <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/elections\/holdwkd-arizona-residents-share-concerns-big-tech-election-interference#article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> that Google has become so powerful that it can now sway elections according to its interests.<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t even need to hold elections anymore,\u201d he said during the testimony, according to Just The News. \u201cThey [Google] can tell us to a high degree of certainty how many people are going to vote, how they\u2019re going to vote, and who\u2019s going to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-figure\">\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>Dr. Robert Epstein, senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, in California on March 28, 2022. (York Du\/The Epoch Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>He claimed that if it hadn\u2019t been for Google, former GOP Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake would have won her 2022 election. Mr. Epstein also announced plans to file a complaint against Google with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) by the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p>Google dismissed Mr. Epstein\u2019s accusations. \u201cThis individual has continued to make deeply misleading claims that have been widely debunked, including for omitting data that would have changed his findings,\u201d a company spokesperson told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent episode of The DrillDown podcast, Mr. Epstein said that if a platform like Google wishes to influence the outcome of an election, \u201cthere\u2019s nothing you can do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Google \u201cgets us to focus on other election issues (like ballot harvesting) as a distraction,\u201d he said. \u201cThe stories about \u2018traditional\u2019 election interference involve may [be] a few votes here and there, but these platforms are shifting literally millions of votes, without people noticing what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/google-shifted-a-minimum-of-6-million-votes-in-2020-election-dr-robert-epstein-3592527\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with Fox News back in 2020, Mr. Epstein said that Google had shifted a \u201cbare minimum\u201d of six million votes in the presidential election by pushing its political agenda onto users.<\/div>\n<p>\u201cGoogle search results were strongly biased in favor of liberals and Democrats. This was not true on Bing or Yahoo,\u201d he said. \u201cWe found a period of days when the vote reminder on Google\u2019s homepage was being sent only to liberals\u2014not one of our conservative field agents received a vote reminder during those days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Epoch Times has reached out to Google for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s search results on 2024 presidential candidates overlook Republicans while promoting Democrats, according to an analysis by media watchdog MRC Free Speech America.Between Sept. 20 and 25, MRC Free Speech America analyzed Google search results for three terms related to the upcoming elections\u2014\u201cpresidential campaign websites,\u201d \u201cRepublican presidential campaign websites,\u201d and \u201cDemocrat presidential campaign websites.\u201d The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":2049923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2049922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2049922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2049923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}