Google manipulates essential auto-suggest results to “memory-hole” Trump assassination attempt

08/06/2024 / By Belle Carter

Tech giant Google has allegedly been suppressing relevant results related to the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump in its autosuggest feature. The purpose is to “kill” the issue by decreasing accessibility to information about the incident as well as the investigation into the matter.

In this connection, Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS), a permanent Subcommittee on Investigations member, has announced that he is leading a probe into efforts to “memory-hole” one of the most serious incidents in American politics in decades – an obvious attempt of Big Tech and Big Government in colluding to roll out censorship of conservatives.

Marshall wrote Sundar Pichai, Chief Executive Officer of Google, demanding answers for allegations, including the platform turning into “a propaganda wing of the Biden-Harris Administration and the radical Left.” He also requested a full investigation and Congressional hearing on Google’s “censorship and blatant bias.”

“Google’s failure to provide suggestions related to the assassination attempt against President Trump on July 13, 2024, as part of its search function is yet another example of censorship against conservative voices and violates the intent of Section 230,” the senator opened the letter. “Omitting suggestions to the most obvious and recent victim of an assassination attempt shows a willful discrimination against President Trump and users of your search engine.”

He also commented on Google’s claim that “no manual action was taken to effectuate these results,” arguing that the clarification is “woefully inadequate, disingenuous and misleading.” He cited the tech firm saying they have a policy of “protections against autocomplete predictions associated with political violence.” However, people searching for “failed assassination attempt” got suggested results concerning former presidents Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford as well as Bob Marley and even Archduke Ferdinand – but not Trump.

According to the lawmaker, if the autocomplete function truly reflects the recent searches completed on Google, the self-learning algorithms should have easily adjusted their autocomplete function during a massive increase in search queries over the last two weeks. Marshall added that if the search engine would rather want to become a publishing firm or editor, Congress could then regulate accordingly by removing the sacred Section 230 protections that the firm has long used to silence conservative voices.

“We’ve known Big Tech has propped up the Biden Crime Family and the Clintons and is now doing Kamala Harris’ bidding, but this week, they have shown there truly is no low they won’t go to, including censoring the assassination attempt of President Trump,” he added. “This is election interference – there must be accountability.”

“Given your firm’s repeated behavior, my colleagues and I will be initiating an investigation into Google’s censorship, bias and constricting the free flow of information,” he said. “Furthermore, as a member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), I will do everything in my power to encourage fellow Committee members to force Google to testify under oath regarding these practices.

Apart from the suppression of information, Google seemed to have a different “campaign strategy” leaning towards the Democrats. On Wednesday, tech magnate Elon Musk said a Google search for “Trump rally” instead brought up top results of Vice President Kamala Harris.

Meanwhile, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) spoke about “autocomplete irregularities” on Google and wants the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide any documents that might show another case of collusion has happened, this time around the attempted assassination.

Trump: Google has to be careful or Congress will shut it down for its censorship

Following the controversial allegation, former President Donald Trump suggested that Congress could close down Google for being biased and censoring content, especially about the recent threat on his life.

Speaking at “Mornings With Maria Bartiromo,” Trump said Google could face additional congressional scrutiny and possibly closure for how it handled political issues. “Google has been very bad. They’ve been very irresponsible. And I have a feeling that Google is going to be close to shut down because I don’t think Congress is going to take it. I really don’t think so,” Trump said. “Google has to be careful.” (Related: Google helping Democrats by BANNING Trump campaign ad showing how life is worse under Biden.)

The tech firm reportedly resolved the “autocomplete issue” on the Trump assassination early Wednesday, denying further that they have performed censorship on the specific information in the first place.

“Autocomplete wasn’t providing predictions for queries about the assassination attempt against former President Trump. That’s because it has built-in protections related to political violence – and those systems were out of date,” Google Communications wrote on X. “After the horrific events in Butler, PA, those predicted queries should have appeared but didn’t. Once the issue was flagged, we started working on improvements, and they’re already rolling out.”

Over the past few days, some people on X have posted claims that Search is “censoring” or “banning” particular terms. That’s not happening, and we want to set the record straight.

The posts relate to our Autocomplete feature, which predicts queries to save you time. Autocomplete…

— Google Communications (@Google_Comms) July 30, 2024