Google Continues Campaign Against Trump Nominees

Just one day after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apparently steered his platforms away from censorship and election interference, Google shamelessly pressed on with its efforts to rig search results against President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees. 

Following Zuckerberg’s Jan. 7 announcement, MRC Free Speech America researchers once again searched Google for the names of Trump’s cabinet-level nominees as well as other important officials such as FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr and FBI Director-nominee Kash Patel. Researchers conducted these searches using Google’s general search and its News tab feature. Using media bias ratings provided by AllSides, MRC researchers found that Google did not display a single U.S.-based “lean right” or “right” article for 68 percent of general searches on the first page of results. 

Indeed, for the general searches,…