Staff Reports
A major tech giant is once again embroiled in controversy, this time over its apparent inability to return search results related to the recent foiled assassination plot against former President Donald Trump. This blunder has sparked outrage across the political spectrum, leading to a Senate investigation that is as inevitable as a TikTok dance challenge at a high school graduation.
What’s more shocking than the actual assassination attempt itself is how Google managed to gloss over it in their search results completely. Instead of serving up articles or information about the July 13 incident, users were met with a bizarre smorgasbord of historical assassination attempts—from failed hits on Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, to Archduke Ferdinand making another appearance, and even the untimely shooting of Bob Marley. Clearly, if you wanted to learn about Trump, Google’s reversion to history left many scratching their heads and asking if the tech overlord had just dropped a history textbook instead of a current events piece into the algorithm mixer.
Big Tech is trying to interfere in the election AGAIN to help Kamala Harris. We all know this is intentional election interference from Google. Truly despicable. https://t.co/gWDbFGaHI7
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 28, 2024
Donald Trump Jr. quickly took to social media to accuse Google of doing what Big Tech does best: playing partisan games and potentially swaying the outcome of the upcoming election. His assertion that Google was consciously suppressing information about his father’s assassination attempt drove the point home that the left’s tech titans may be complicit in more than just shoddy search engine results. Their bias is so blatant, it’s almost as if they’re trying to avoid mentioning Trump altogether—perhaps fearing that the mere mention of his name might overload their servers.
Senator Roger Marshall from Kansas didn’t waste any time, declaring that he would launch an official inquiry into the situation. His remarks about the curious absence of Trump’s name in search predictions suggest that something is indeed fishy and that Big Tech seems to have its own agenda. Questions are begging to be asked, like whether George Orwell is now writing the scripts for Google’s algorithms or if there is a secret committee deciding which historical figures to glorify while burying those currently in the public eye.
Meanwhile, Representative Chip Roy from Texas took it upon himself to conduct his investigation, which revealed the unsavory truth behind Google’s selective search results. This behavior isn’t surprising given that many conservatives have long felt that major tech platforms are not just tools for information but instruments of political architecture, reshaping discourse in favor of their worldview.
In a desperate attempt to save face, a Google spokesperson claimed that any manual actions didn’t influence their search algorithms and that they had built-in protections against autocomplete predictions related to political violence. The spokesperson reassured the public that, you know, you can still use Google to search for anything you want—don’t expect it to know anything about the current political landscape or the tragic events that have recently unfolded concerning Donald Trump. The real question here isn’t whether Google is improving its systems; it’s why it seems hell-bent on ignoring a significant portion of the political narrative.
