MRC Free Speech America has caught Google rigging search results for President-elect Donald Trump’s most prominent nominees before, and the search engine is at it yet again.
On Nov. 26 and Dec. 3, the MRC found an absurd ratio in favor of leftist and legacy media articles versus articles considered “right” or “lean right” by media ratings firm AllSides. On both dates, MRC researchers searched Google news tab and general search for the names of a number of top Trump nominations, and compared the news articles in the search results against the AllSides media bias list. For the Nov. 26 general search, there were 20 times more left-wing articles. On Dec. 3, U.S.-based “right” or “lean right” articles were also egregiously outnumbered as there were 18 times more leftist articles.
Despite making so little space for “right” or “lean right”…
