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Google’s Firehose of Legacy Media on Election Coverage

Google continues to go to great lengths to block users from seeing any right-of-center media outlets on 2024 presidential election news. 

For the fifth consecutive week, Google rigged search results for “donald trump presidential race 2024,” shoving leftist and legacy media outlet articles into Americans’ faces. MRC researchers once again used AllSides “right” and “left” media bias ratings and had to dig deep to find the first right-of-center result for the Trump prompt search. 

The first U.S.-based, right-leaning search result for the Trump prompt—a New York Post article—appeared as the eighth result on the fifth page of Google search results. This was the only right-of-center media outlet in the first 54 results, following 53 other results including left-of-center outlets such as Politico, CBS News and NBC News. 

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