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Google Turns Up Heat on Trump Nominees, Continues to Rig Results

Google’s relentless PR campaign against President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees is still ongoing. The Media Research Center has caught the search giant rigging the results for a fifth consecutive week.

MRC Researchers searched Google for the names of Trump’s cabinet nominees along with two additional top officials–Brendan Carr who Trump selected to Chair the FCC and Kash Patel who he selected as his FBI director. Researchers searched both via a general Google search and a news tab search each of which yielded results that were full of leftist articles from legacy media outlets attacking the nominees. Indeed, Google presented 15 times the number of articles from often hostile left-leaning sources than from outlets that media ratings firm AllSides rates as “right or “lean right.” 

For most of the nominees, Google did not present a single “lean…

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