An experiment going around social media goes like this: Pull up a Google search box and type in “assassination attempt” and then wait to see what Google auto-populates the rest of your search with.
For many, the rest of the search is for people like Hitler, Reagan, Truman, or other figures. Nowhere does the word “Trump” appear, even though on July 13, an assassin came within centimeters from taking his life with a spray of bullets.
Must Read Alaska tested the experiment over two days. Our results agree with the critics:
We tried it another way. This time we typed in “assassination attempt trump.” The result was … no result. The field would not auto-populate with any information. By hitting the “I’m Feeling Lucky” key, we were directed to a story from USA Today that had the topic of the need for gun control.
Then, we tried typing “assassination attempt on t” to see what would auto-populate. This is the helpful result: “truman” and “the pope”:
We also tried other search terms, like “Trump assassination attempt,” and saw similar results, with no additional terms offered by Google.
“Big Tech is trying to interfere in the election AGAIN to help Kamala Harris,” wrote Donald Trump Jr. on X. “We all know this is intentional election interference from Google. Truly despicable.”
Elon Musk, who is the majority owner of X, was pulled into the quest to see if Google is slanting its search function. He typed in the words “president donald” and received the result “president donald duck” as his first result.
“They’re getting themselves into a lot of trouble if they interfere with the election,” Musk commented.
Must Read Alaska was not able to replicate the Musk search result and it’s possible that the scrutiny by Musk forced the company to adjust its results overnight.
Robby Starbuck reminded his followers that Google executives were unhinged after Trump won the election in 2016, and that the company has vast control over the information that people receive online:
It’s not just Google. Here’s what Big Tech’s artificial intelligence is saying about the assassination attempt against Trump earlier this month: Nothing.
This query is from Meta A.I., which is the company that owns Facebook:
We then asked Chat GPT to “tell me about the assassination attempt on Trump.” The is the result, even two weeks after the attempt on Trump’s life during a campaign rally in Butler, Penn.:
In 2020, Google and other media giants claimed that at least 149 million citizens voted in the general election that brought Joe Biden into the White House, for a turnout which would have been 97% of registered voters at the time.
(With what appears to be “memory-holing” (the intentional suppression of history) of news on Donald Trump, it will be helpful for readers to share our stories on social media. We expect this story to be suppressed by Big Tech. Thank you.)