{"id":2315479,"date":"2024-07-29T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-cruz-elon-musk-allege-google-is-engaged-in-election-interference-after-seeing-insane-trump-search-results\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T13:25:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T17:25:22","slug":"ted-cruz-elon-musk-allege-google-is-engaged-in-election-interference-after-seeing-insane-trump-search-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-cruz-elon-musk-allege-google-is-engaged-in-election-interference-after-seeing-insane-trump-search-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz, Elon Musk Allege Google Is Engaged in Election Interference After Seeing &#8216;Insane&#8217; Trump Search Results"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fted-cruz-elon-musk-allege-google-is-engaged-in-election-interference-after-seeing-insane-trump-search-results%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=2315479&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--><p>Google recently faced criticism for allegedly \u200bomitting the July 13\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amnesty-international-strips-aleksei-navalny-of-prisoner-of-conscience-status-for-decades-old-comments-on-immigration\/\" title=\"Amnesty International Strips Aleksei Navalny Of \u2018Prisoner Of Conscience\u2019 Status For Decades-Old Comments On Immigration\">assassination attempt<\/a>\u200b on\u2062 former President Donald Trump from its autocomplete search feature. Prominent\u2062 figures, including Elon Musk and Republican Senator Ted Cruz, publicly condemned this\u2064 action, accusing Google\u200c of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-facebook-and-twitter-ceos-testify-before-senate-judiciary-committee\/\" title=\"Watch Live: Facebook and Twitter CEOs Testify Before Senate Judiciary Committee\">election interference<\/a> and \u200battempting \u200bto erase significant historical \u200devents.\u200d Users searching for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-disturbing-findings-from-planned-parenthoods-annual-report\/\" title=\"5 Disturbing Findings from Planned Parenthood\u2019s Annual Report\">terms related<\/a> to Trump&#8217;s assassination did \u200dnot\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chatgpt-can-now-talk-listen-process-images-openai-says\/\" title=\"OpenAI announces that ChatGPT is now capable of conversing, understanding speech, analyzing images.\">receive relevant suggestions<\/a>, unlike searches \u2062for\u200d other\u200d presidents who had faced \u2062similar threats. Senator\u2064 Roger \u2064Marshall\u2062 announced plans for \u200ban official inquiry into Google&#8217;s\u2062 practices regarding search results. In response, a Google representative denied any &#8220;manual\u2064 action&#8221; and stated that their systems are designed \u2064to prevent predictions associated with political violence, emphasizing their commitment to\u200b providing\u2063 quality information.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section>\n<p>Google&rsquo;s erasure of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on its autocomplete feature did not go over well, with both Elon Musk and Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas calling foul.<\/p>\n<p>As noted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/fox-news-tech\/google-feature-omits-search-results-failed-trump-assassination-big-tech-accused-election-manipulation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Business<\/a>&nbsp;on Sunday, Google&rsquo;s autocomplete feature omitted the July 13 attempt to gun down the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-trump-takes-shot-liberal-miley-cyrus-front-dad-epic-rally-moment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republican presidential candidate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Users who typed in &ldquo;assassination&rdquo; were instead offered news about the 1914 assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, which touched off World War I.<\/p>\n<p>Searching for &ldquo;Trump assassination attempt&rdquo; produced no suggestions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This&hellip;is&hellip;insane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8294;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Google?\">@Google<\/a>&#8297; is engaged in active election interference.<\/p>\n<p>They are gas-lighting the American people &amp; trying to erase the attempted assassination of Trump. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g2h8DzkDON\">pic.twitter.com\/g2h8DzkDON<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1817701641346265460?\">July 28, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <script> \t\t\t\tif( ! getCookie( 'ff_subbed' ) ) if( typeof FFADS.replace_ict !='undefined' ) if( FFADS.replace_ict ) eval( FFADS.replace_ict ); \t\t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&ldquo;This&hellip;is&hellip;insane,&rdquo; Cruz <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1817701641346265460\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[Google] is engaged in active election interference. They are gas-lighting the American people &amp; trying to erase the attempted assassination of Trump,&rdquo; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/elon-musk-burns-kamala-harris-shortly-biden-endorsement-imagine-4-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Musk<\/a> noted that even basic searches for information on Trump were affected.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Wow, Google has a search ban on President Donald Trump!<\/p>\n<p>Election interference? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dJzgVAAFZA\">pic.twitter.com\/dJzgVAAFZA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1817765530255659127?\">July 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Wow, Google has a search ban on President Donald Trump! Election interference?&rdquo; he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1817765530255659127\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/07\/28\/us-news\/google-omitting-trump-assassination-from-autocomplete-feature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a> did its own test.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Post performed a series of test Google searches with the last names of U.S. presidents who were killed or faced attempts on their lives followed by the letters &lsquo;assassi&rsquo; to see what Autocomplete suggested, including John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Teddy Roosevelt,&rdquo; the Post wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In each instance, a helpful list of recommended search terms related to the attempts on their lives sprang into view. However, when Trump&rsquo;s name was used, Autocomplete offered no suggestions whatsoever,&rdquo; the Post wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas said he does not plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-big-tech-strikes-google-removes-prageru-play-store\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">let the matter drop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Why is [Google] suppressing the search about the Trump assassination attempt? These are all screenshots from this morning. Has there been a dramatic increase in Truman biographers in the last two weeks?&rdquo; he wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Why is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Google?\">@Google<\/a> suppressing the search about the Trump assassination attempt? These are all screenshots from this morning. Has there been a dramatic increase in Truman biographers in the last two weeks?<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ll be making an official inquiry into <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Google?\">@google<\/a> this week &ndash; I look forward&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GD5SOvvcdX\">pic.twitter.com\/GD5SOvvcdX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dr. Roger Marshall (@RogerMarshallMD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RogerMarshallMD\/status\/1817633973385724239?\">July 28, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be making an official inquiry into [Google] this week &mdash; I look forward to their response,&rdquo; he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RogerMarshallMD\/status\/1817633973385724239\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/google-ceo-admits-company-engages-manual-censorship-blacklists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google<\/a> representative that there was no &ldquo;manual action taken on these predictions,&rdquo; Fox reported.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our systems have protections against Autocomplete predictions associated with political violence, which were working as intended prior to this horrific event occurring,&rdquo; the representative said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re working on improvements to ensure our systems are more up to date,&rdquo; the representative said, noting autocomplete is &ldquo;just a tool to help people save time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Following this terrible act, people turned to Google to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-left-is-trying-to-memory-hole-trumps-assassination-attempt\/\" title=\"The Left Is Trying To Memory-Hole Trump&#039;s Assassination Attempt\">find high quality information &#038;mdash<\/a>; we connected them with helpful results and will continue to do so,&rdquo; Google&rsquo;s statement said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\">  <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> <label>* Name<\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> <\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> <label>* <\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> <\/div>\n<p> <label>* Message<\/label> <br \/> <textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\">  <\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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According to Fox Business on Sunday, Google&#8217;s autocomplete did not include the July 13 incident where there was an attempt to shoot the Republican presidential candidate. Instead, users searching for &#8220;assassination&#8221; were directed to information about the 1914 assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, which led to World War I. A search for &#8220;Trump assassination attempt&#8221; yielded no suggestions at all.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz criticized Google on X, stating that it was engaging in active election interference and attempting to erase the attempted assassination of Trump. Musk also pointed out that basic searches related to Trump were being affected.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post conducted its own investigation by testing Google searches with the last names of U.S. presidents who had been assassinated or faced attempts on their lives followed by &#8220;assassi.&#8221; They found that while suggestions appeared for other presidents like John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln, no suggestions came up when searching for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Roger Marshall from Kansas expressed his intention not to let this issue go unnoticed and questioned why Google was suppressing information about Trump&#8217;s assassination attempt. He announced plans for an official inquiry into Google&#8217;s actions.<\/p>\n<p>In response, a Google representative stated that there had been no manual intervention regarding these predictions and explained that their systems are designed to prevent autocomplete predictions linked to political violence. The representative added that they are working on improvements while emphasizing that autocomplete is merely a tool meant to assist users in finding information quickly following significant events like this one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Musk-and-Cruz.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32119,32192,6063,32090,36540],"class_list":["post-2315479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-election-interference","tag-elon-musk","tag-google","tag-ted-cruz","tag-trump-search-results"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Musk-and-Cruz.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315479","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2315479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}