Former President Donald Trump has vowed that his administration will seek to prosecute Google if he wins in November, claiming that the company’s search engine only promotes “bad stories” about him.
Trump made the threat on his Truth Social account on Friday after a damning study found that the Big Tech giant was burying results for his campaign website below those of Democratic rival Kamala Harris’ official site — and spitting out articles that favor the Vice President.
“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 Republican presidential candidate wrote.
“This is an ILLEGAL ACTIVITY, and hopefully the Justice Department will criminally prosecute them for this blatant interference of Elections.”
Former President Donald Trump has vowed to prosecute Google if he wins the election. Getty Images
If the DOJ officials under a second Trump administration decline to pursue charges against the company, “I will request their prosecution, at the maximum levels, when I win the Election, and become President of the United States!” he concluded.
The Post has sought comment from Google.
Trump’s ire follows a study by the Media Research Center that analyzed search results of two separate Google queries — “Donald Trump presidential race 2024” and “Kamala Harris presidential race 2024.”
The search by MRC Free Speech America researchers for Harris’ campaign, conducted Sept. 6, yielded a result that was third — below articles about the Democratic candidate suggested largely from left-leaning outlets like The New York Times, Washington Post and Politico that favor Harris.
Trump was reacting to a recent study which claimed that Google search results were biased in favor of his rival, Vice President Kamala Harris. Google
The same query for Trump turned up in the sixth spot on the first result page, beneath critical content about the Republican from the same outlets — with no results from conservative publications like the New York Post.
“Google is trying to stack the deck in favor of Kamala Harris,” Media Research Center founder Brent Bozell told Fox News Digital.
“Google’s search engine pushes left-wing media articles favoring Kamala Harris and slamming Donald Trump. Don’t trust Google searches.”
Google has denied claims that its search algorithm is biased toward Democrats. Christopher Sadowski
A Google spokesperson denied the claims made by MRC.
“Both campaign websites consistently appear at the top of Search for relevant and common search queries,” a company spokesperson said in response to the report.
“This report 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.”
Last month, Google was criticized for allegedly skewing search results about Trump’s candidacy as well as omitting the assassination attempt on the former president from its AutoCorrect function.
