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   The media is very biased   
   In 2016 they lied about Russian disinformation.   
   In 2020 they lied in claiming the Hunter Biden laptop was "Russian   
   disinformation"   
   In 2024, it continues.  The debate moderators 'fact check Trump,   
   but let Harris lie all she wants.   
   Here the computer companies rig all search results.   
      
   Google buries Trump campaign website under hit pieces   
   Various Google logos are displayed on a Google search, Monday, Sept. 11,   
   2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)   
   Various Google logos are displayed on a Google search, Monday, Sept. 11,   
   2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) more >   
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   By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times - Thursday, September 26, 2024   
   A study has found that Google is hiding former President Donald Trump’s   
   campaign website under stories written by liberal news outlets while   
   searches of Vice President Kamala Harris display flattering results and   
   her campaign website more prominently.   
      
   The Media Research Center, a conservative watchdog group, analyzed   
   searches for both candidates on Sept. 6 and found “Donald Trump   
   presidential race 2024” produced negative news from liberal media   
   outlets at the top of the search results. Mr. Trump’s campaign website   
   appeared sixth in results, underneath stories from The New York Times,   
   Politico and The Washington Post.   
      
   Ms. Harris’ campaign website was much easier to find, the MRC study   
   discovered. It showed up much higher in the Google search, and nearly   
   all the news stories above it were favorable and written by left-leaning   
   outlets.   
      
   Dan Schneider, vice president of the Media Research Center’s Free Speech   
   America program, said the search engine previously made it even more   
   difficult to find Mr. Trump’s campaign website but has shifted tactics   
   and is now placing it below liberal news reports about the former   
   president, which tend to be negative.   
      
   “The big difference now is that Google puts a series of newspaper   
   articles above search results, and for Donald Trump, all those newspaper   
   articles, or media articles, are from left-wing outlets, and all those   
   stories are harsh about Donald Trump,” Mr. Schneider said. “All the   
   articles that Google produces above Kamala Harris’ website are puff   
   pieces about her.”   
      
   Google did not immediately respond to an inquiry about the MRC study.   
   The company told Fox News that the study “looked at a single, rare   
   search term, on a single day, several weeks ago, and even for that   
   search, both candidates’ websites ranked in the top results on Google.”   
      
   For years, the tech giant has been accused of favoring Democrats over   
   Republicans, and critics point to employee campaign donations to support   
   their claims.   
      
   According to the data company Quiver Quantitative, Google ranked first   
   among the top 20 donors to the Harris campaign as of September, spending   
   $1.46 million on her bid. Microsoft ranked second in Harris donations,   
   spending $743,045 on her campaign.   
      
   Neither Google nor Microsoft appears on the list of top 20 donors to the   
   Trump campaign.   
      
   “Google & Microsoft very disproportionately donate to the Democratic   
   Party,” X owner Elon Musk posted earlier this week. “Between them, they   
   control close to 100% of web browsers and search. Even with the best of   
   intentions, they can’t help but introduce bias.”   
      
   Separate Google searches performed by The Washington Times on Thursday   
   for “Donald Trump” and “Kamala Harris” showed different treatments for   
   the two candidates.   
      
   The search for Mr. Trump’s name showed his campaign website buried under   
   a block of unflattering photos and news stories.   
      
   A search of Ms. Harris’ name immediately returned ActBlue’s “Official   
   Harris 2024 Website,” a fundraising site paid for by the Harris Victory   
   Fund political action committee, as the top result. ActBlue is the   
   Democratic Party’s online fundraising machine.   
      
   No. 2 result was her campaign website and a block of flattering photos   
   and biographical information. The next result was Ms. Harris’ official   
   White House page, followed by news stories about Ms. Harris’ meeting   
   Thursday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. A succession of   
   her social media pages appear underneath the news stories.   
      
   The results for a search of Mr. Trump’s name produced starkly different   
   results. There was no sign of WinRed, the Republicans’ online   
   fundraising tool. Mr. Trump’s official campaign website could be found   
   only after scrolling past several smirking photos of the former   
   president and unfriendly opinion pieces, including a New York Times   
   column headlined “The Dangers of Donald Trump, From Those Who Know Him”   
   and the Esquire magazine headline “I Feel Compelled to Point Out That   
   Donald Trump Sounds Absolutely Insane.”   
      
   By midafternoon, the Trump search results had shifted to include a story   
   on Ms. Harris leading Mr. Trump in several polls, a CNN story on Mr.   
   Trump “icing out Zelenskyy,” and a New Republic magazine piece titled   
   “Trump’s Newest Grift Just Dropped — and It’s Hideous.”   
      
   No Republican or Trump fundraising pages appeared anywhere in the search.   
      
   A search for the Republican Party’s WinRed site instead returned a top   
   result of an ActBlue page sponsored by the Democratic Party to raise   
   funds for Senate Democratic candidates.   
      
   It was followed by the WinRed “directory” page, a series of WinRed posts   
   on X, and an Al Jazeera news headline that WinRed “misleads U.S.   
   consumers into recurring donations” and several other unflattering   
   pieces about the fundraising site.   
      
   A search of ActBlue turned up the ActBlue page as the top result, and no   
   reference to WinRed. Near the bottom of the search page was a link to a   
   press release from the Texas attorney general’s office about an   
   investigation into whether ActBlue is complying with laws governing   
   credit card donations.   
      
   Google has been accused of manipulating its algorithm in a way that   
   disfavors Mr. Trump.   
      
   In July, after the first attempted assassination of Mr. Trump, users   
   noticed Google’s autocomplete feature would fill in President Harry   
   Truman’s name after “assassination attempt on Trum…”   
      
   In other searches, users found that in searches of “President Donald   
   Trump,” the autocomplete feature would fill in “President Donald Duck,”   
   or former Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, who served in the 1980s.   
      
   Google has also faced criticism over its AI feature and was forced to   
   roll it back when users discovered, among other flaws, that it could not   
   create images of White people.   
      
   In July, Mr. Trump slammed Google and Meta, the parent company of   
   Facebook, for initially censoring the now-iconic photo of him pumping   
      
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