After failing to stop the return of former President Donald Trump to the White House, Google appears to have settled for going after his cabinet-level nominees.
On Nov. 19, MRC researchers searched Google for names of each of Trump’s cabinet nominations, and additionally the FCC chairman, and compared the news results against the AllSides media list, which classifies publications based on their “right” or “left” bias. MRC researchers found that in 10 out of 14 queries, Google provided zero right-leaning media sources on the first page of results. Worse still, even when Google did display news outlet articles in search results for the nominees’ names, it showed over 11 times more left-leaning media articles than right-leaning in its general search.
Google featured articles from leftist outlets including Teen Vogue, The Daily Beast, The…
