Congress Initiates Probe on Whether Google Search Intentionally Deceived Americans Regarding Trump Assassination – One America News Network
OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
11:12 AM – Thursday, August 15, 2024
Google received more bad news on Wednesday when the main congressional oversight committee announced that it had launched an investigation into whether the search engine misled Americans about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump last month.
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Google was already facing the possibility of a “breakup” due to a devastating antitrust court ruling, which was first reported by The New York Times.
James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, disclosed to his staff last week that Google claimed that their autocomplete function for their search engine “omitted the Trump assassination attempt” from pertinent searches since the company allegedly neglected to update “a safety protocol” against violence to acknowledge that the former president had, in fact, been shot on July 13th during an attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Whether deliberate or not, Comer said that the issue contributed to a trend of Big Tech unfairly meddling in elections that stretches back to attempts in 2020 to stifle truthful reports about politically damaging data found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, which Democrats, mainstream media outlets, and even contractors employed by the CIA falsely claimed had “the classic earmarks” of “Russian disinformation.”
“Americans rely upon prominent internet search engines such as Google to gather news and information critical to their understanding of national politics and events—and never more so than during a presidential election season,” Comer wrote in a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
“On behalf of the American people, the Committee is dedicated to fully understanding when and how information is being suppressed or modified, whether it be due to technical error, a policy intended to ensure safety, or a specific intent to mislead,” he continued.
Comer also had similar worries about the Meta platform’s AI chatbot’s deceitful claim that there “was no real assassination attempt on Donald Trump” in a letter he sent to Mark Zuckerberg’s parent company.
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