It’s election time, and a lot of Big Tech companies are using their products and services to tip the scales in favor of the Democrat party. Is Google one of those companies? A new study by the Media Research Center analyzes Google search results about Kamala Harris’ past actions and stances on political issues. Are those search results balancing conservative and leftist sources? Let’s see.

Here’s the latest report on the study from MRC:

Google is actively assisting Vice President Kamala Harris in maintaining her media honeymoon by keeping users in the dark about her radical policy views, including her support for abolishing ICE and threatening to end private health insurance, a new MRC Free Speech America study found.

The study revealed a staggering bias in Google’s favoring of left-leaning media by a nearly 10:1 margin in both Google Search and the Google News tab. MRC conducted the searches on Aug. 21, covering four search prompts across both Google Search and the Google News tab. These findings raise serious concerns about Google’s influence on the outcome of the 2024 election, echoing its interference in the 2022 midterm elections.

MRC completed the searches using a clean environment, discovering that Google has promoted left-leaning media sites at a shocking 17:2 ratio in Google Search results. The bias was equally pronounced in the Google News tab for search results, where left-leaning outlets appeared at a 19:2 ratio. This is a nearly 10:1 biased ratio on each tab.

MRC used the media bias chart by AllSides to determine the ideological leaning of the outlets featured in Google’s search results. Among the 19 media outlets that received favorable placements in the Google News tab results were The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, Politico, Slate, Vox and The Guardian. In contrast, only three right-leaning media outlets — The Federalist, New York Post and The Washington Times — were scarcely featured.

MRC also did a previous poll to see whether Democrat voters new about Kamala’s previous positions and past actions.

Here’s what they found:

A significant new Media Research Center poll finds that large majorities of registered Democrats and Independents who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 — exactly those who would be expected to support Vice President Kamala Harris in this year’s contest — are mostly in the dark about many of the controversial and radical positions Harris has taken.

When asked about ten different aspects of Harris’s public record — on issues as varied as her sponsorship of the Green New Deal, abolishing ICE, and eliminating private health insurance — between 71% and 86% of these Democrats and Independents said they either had not heard of Harris’s position or were unsure.

Where do you get your news? I read sources like Daily Signal, The Federalist, Washington Stand, and other center right sources. But I rarely see those sources in the first page of Google results, or the second page, or the third page.

The article notes:

When these voters were asked about where they got most of their news about political elections and candidates, by far the top answers were broadcast television (ABC, CBS and NBC) or cable news (such as CNN and MSNBC). This suggests that the knowledge gaps found by our poll reveal a failure of these outlets to report on radical positions once (and perhaps currently) supported by the now-Democratic nominee for President.

In fact, a detailed Media Research Center examination of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news coverage in the three weeks since Harris became the leading Democratic candidate (July 21 to August 10) shows eight of these ten issues received ZERO attention from these newscasts, while two others received only minor coverage.

In case you’re wondering what the previous positions of Harris are, they have a list:

1. Harris supported cutting funding for the police
2. Harris co-sponsored the Green New Deal
3. Harris supported the elimination of private health insurance
4. Harris supported reparations payments to atone for slavery
5. As “Border Czar,” Harris never visited a conflict zone on the border
6. Harris said it should not be considered a crime to enter the U.S. illegally.
7. Harris supported abolishing ICE
8. Harris promoted a fund to bail out violent protesters during 2020 riots
9. Harris would consider allowing death row inmates to vote
10. Harris was named the most liberal U.S. Senator in 2019

I had blogged about a few of those in the past, but the one that shocked me was #9. I knew that Harris was ultra-leftist on law-and-order and border security, but I didn’t know she was that far to the left. No wonder Google, which has been caught many, many times supporting the secular left, is trying to hide those positions. And their allies in the corporate news media are helping.

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