With such market dominance, Google controls what users see and what they know.
Thus, Google’s influence over American politics is significant.
This week, MRC Free Speech America uncovered how Google manipulates the search results of presidential candidates.
The group searched “Republican presidential campaign websites” on the eve of Wednesday night’s Republican primary debate. Yet only two candidates appeared on Google, including Will Hurd, a never-Trumper from Texas, who didn’t have enough support to appear during the second debate.
“There was no sign of Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Mike Pence, Tim Scott or Chris Christie,” writes Miranda Devine.
“But there was one other candidate who showed up on Page 1 of the Republican search results: fringe Democrat Marianne Williamson, whose RealClearPolitics average doesn’t even reach 5%. Maybe that’s Google’s idea of ‘balance.'”