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Google is suppressing the 2024 campaign websites of all serious challengers to Democratic incumbent President Joe Biden, a report from the Media Research Center claimed on Thursday.
Searching the web for 'presidential campaign websites' using Google returned results that did not include a single Republican candidate on the first page the day before the first Republican primary debate of the 2024 season, according to the MRC.Not even former US President Donald Trump, who is polling neck-and-neck with Biden, appeared in the first few pages of results, the media watchdog observed.Nor did Democratic challenger Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the chief threat to Biden's candidacy from within his own party, appear in the results at all, even though a recent poll had him at nearly 20% in a matchup against Biden.
Indeed, the only non-Biden Democrat to feature on the first page was lifestyle guru Marianne Williamson, who has never polled above the low single digits.
However, the websites of prominent Democrats who are not running for president in 2024, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, were more prominently featured at 29th, 12th, and 9th place in the results, respectively."Google has erased every threat to Joe Biden," MRC Free Speech America VP Dan Schneider said on Thursday, recalling how Google had "pulled out all the stops to put Hillary Clinton in the White House" and "has continued to interfere in our elections ever since."As of Saturday, the phenomenon appeared to have actually worsened. While Biden's site was the fourth listed on the search engine and Williamson's the fifth, Sanders remained at 12th, while Clinton had actually moved up to 13th.
Former Vice President Mike Pence's site was the highest-ranked Republican in a search run on Saturday morning - though even his page was listed several places behind an Atlantic article informing the casual browser that 1996 Republican candidate and now-deceased former Senator Bob Dole's campaign website "is still online."
Kennedy has been widely disparaged by the media establishment and online factcheckers for his work on vaccine safety. He sued Google earlier this month for violating his First Amendment rights, arguing its subsidiary YouTube had blocked his content on orders from the Biden administration. Trump also sued Google in 2021 for infringing on his free speech after he was deplatformed from YouTube along with most other mainstream social media platforms following the January 6 Capitol riot.Over a dozen government agencies were found to be issuing content-based censorship orders to social media platforms last year in Missouri v. Biden, leading a judge to issue a restraining order forbidding the administration from contacting the platforms.
Reader Comments
Brave and duckduck are totally compromised bullshit.
Any others you guys have found are old-skool unfiltered plain search results?
Brave has worked relatively well. Can't say I've tried Yandex yet. Might give it a go, but in my honest opinion, if you're online, you're compromised in one digital way or another.
I would like to see what others use.
Common sense ain't common.
Have an amazing day!
But, if I use the Spanish search "sitios web de campañas presidenciales EE. UU. 2024" on google.cl from inside Chile, I get a different list of results with only news articles and no links to the Biden campaign or the official pages of past Democrat candidates. On page 2, there is a link to an article from four days ago on how Trump surged after being arrested.
I turned the US proxy on again and tried "sitios web de campañas presidenciales EE. UU. 2024" on google.com and received a different list of results than "presidential campaign websites" with no Biden site or other Democrat site links. Interestingly, there was a page 1 link to the Spanish version of Wikipedia regarding Trump's 2024 campaign.
So it seems for the moment, this intentional tweaking is focussed on English searches with the different world google sites kicking out nearly the same google.com results if that English language search is done. Switch the language and Google changes its character even on the google.com site.
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Unless you know a trustworthy programmer that has already created his/her own personal web crawler, we're kind of limited with the current search engines.
What "I" want is just that, raw results based on simple keyword/regexps
To better control the "misinformation" and curate the correct narrative it seems that all current mainstream engines are really dumbing down the results to the point they're completely obsolete now.