How the Market of Tech Platforms Uncovered Potential Google Search Bias

David Inserra

Social media users took to X to alert supporters of former President Donald Trump that Google appeared to be suppressing or altering various search results to favor his new opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.

In one set of tweets and news stories, journalists discovered that Google’s autocomplete feature would not autocomplete statements related to the attempted assassination of Trump. In a statement, Google said that no “manual action taken on these predictions,”...