by Tom Olohan, Newsbusters:
With only three weeks remaining before the election, Google continues to heavily push leftist media coverage of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump in search results.
On Oct. 15, MRC researchers once again used AllSides “right” and “left” bias ratings and found that Google Search results for “kamala harris presidential race 2024” and “donald trump presidential race 2024” were dominated by a deluge of legacy media and far-left outlets. The results prominently featured CNN and The New York Times, and publications owned by leftist billionaires, such as Jeff Bezos’s The Washington Post and Marc Benioff’s Time. Not a single right-leaning outlet appeared in Google search results until Fox News was displayed on page eight for the Harris prompt and on page seven for the Trump prompt.
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Tellingly, when searching for the aforementioned Harris prompt, Google did not display a single media outlet that AllSides rated as “lean-right” or “right” until a Fox News video appeared as the fourth result on page eight of the search results. For an actual “lean right” or “right” article, users had to go all the way to the fifth result of page 14 to find a New York Post piece.
Google buried the first “lean right” or “right” outlet as the third result on the seventh page when MRC researchers analyzed results for the Trump prompt, as Google finally displayed a Fox Business article in this spot. Google did not display another right-leaning outlet until The Telegraph appeared as the fourth result on page 11.
This overt leftist bias is especially concerning, as a November 2023 Pew Research survey shows an increasing number of Americans get their news from search engines. The study found that 15 percent of U.S. adults prefer getting their news from search engines, up from 13 percent in 2022, and 11 percent in 2021.
Previous MRC Free Speech America studies have consistently exposed Google for its leftist bias in search results, which invariably favor leftist media outlets.
MRC researchers have used the exact same prompts on different days and found that Google hides right-of-center results from all but the most determined users. On Oct. 1, Google buried the first U.S.-based “lean-right” or “right” search result for the Harris prompt on page 13, while hiding the first similar result for the Trump prompt on page 14. On Oct. 9, Google placed the first U.S.-based “lean right” or “right” search result for the Trump prompt on page 23. That same day, Google showed zero American right-of-center news outlets for the Harris prompt until page 11.
