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A new investigation by the Media Research Center (MRC) revealed that Google interfered in multiple U.S. elections since 2008. According to the report<\/span><\/a>, 41 cases of election interference was uncovered by Dan Schneider, MRC\u2019s Free Speech America Vice President and Assistant Editor Gabriela Pariseau. In every case Google\u2019s interference harmed candidates, regardless of party, who were opposed its \u201cleft-wing candidate of choice,\u201d as reported by the Washington Stand<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n The investigation revealed Google executives had uttered out loud what was never meant to be released publicly: that Google used its \u2018great strength and resources and reach\u2019 to advance its leftist values.\u201d<\/p>\n Schneider and Pariseau uncovered Google\u2019s involvement in elections as far back as 2008 and its advancement of then-senator Barak Obama in his pursuit of the presidency, resulted in the big tech giant censoring Hillary Clinton\u2019s support as the Democratic presidential candidate. She had nominally indicated she would \u201crein in\u201d big business, while Obama had shown he planned to work toward technology development, advancing science education and continuing his work with Google from his senate days. Consequently, the suspension of writer\u2019s accounts who wrote critically of Obama and favorably of Clinton during the primary races was the result. Eric Schmidt, then-Google CEO, told journalists the censorship was an error, but formally endorsed Obama, later hosting an inauguration party and even later running the technology side of his reelection campaign.<\/p>\n The MRC report revealed that Google and the Obama White House had an \u201cintimate relationship\u201d at best and at worst an \u201cincestuous\u201d relationship. Fifty-five Google executives took jobs in the federal government and about 200 federal employees took positions at Google during Obama\u2019s tenure. It was a relationship with mutual benefits according to the MRC report.<\/p>\n As Obama\u2019s presidency was ending, Google\u2019s support switched to Clinton as she battled against Republican challenger Donald Trump, by hiding searches related to her indictment and related crimes or Trump\u2019s nickname \u201ccrocked Hillary.\u201d The MRC report indicated that during the 2016 election Google users were nearly 40% more likely to receive left-leaning bias when searching terms such as \u201cabortion,\u201d \u201ccampaign finance reform,\u201d \u201cglobal warming,\u201d and others.<\/p>\n The report uncovered Google\u2019s 2018 midterm elections interference where the tech giant search engine linked \u201cCalifornia Republicans\u201d to \u201cNazism\u201d presenting nazi ideology as a related search when users typed in California Republicans and visa-versa \u2013 searches for Nazism would yield California Republican Party results. The presentation of information ramped up to 95% of left-wing bias and only 5% conservative during the 2018 election cycle.<\/p>\n The report noted researcher Dr. Robert Epstein<\/span>\u2019s<\/span><\/a> work surrounding Google, indicated its interference flipped three-Republican held congressional seats in Orange County, California to blue. Epstein had testified before congress in 2019, raising concerns about Google\u2019s prior election interference and feared influence on future elections [read his testimony here<\/span><\/a>].<\/p>\n The MRC report<\/span><\/a> emphasized that during the 2020 election Google<\/span><\/a> blocked and blacklisted conservative news sites, including MRC\u2019s NewsBusters, the Daily Caller, The Christian Post, and Catholic News Agency. Other websites like the Gateway Pundit, Breitbart News, Zerohedge, Human Events and the Federalist were restricted from appearing in searches although they still appeared on other search engines. In some cases, the websites were accused of \u201cderogatory or offensive comments\u201d and censored because of it.<\/p>\n The report highlighted the further left-leaning bias when \u201cDonald Trump\u201d news was searched for, articles from CNN, USA Today, The New York Times, Politico, and The Guardian were more than half of the results, of which all are left and far-left leaning. Also, Google allegedly diverted campaign funding emails for conservatives marking them as spam. The Republican National Committee reported Google blocked 22 million get-out-to-vote emails and a study showed that nearly 60% more emails from conservative candidates over liberal candidates\u2019 emails were marked as spam by Google. Epstein estimated Google\u2019s interference affected at least six million votes in 2020.<\/p>\n Epstein<\/span><\/a> also alleged that during the 2022 midterms, Arizona Gubernatorial Candidate Kari Lake would have been elected governor if Google\u2019s meddling had not occurred. He also indicated the U.S. Senate would likely have gained between a two and eight seat majority if interference had not taken place, but Google suppressed 83% of Republican senate campaign websites. It flooded news pages with 20 times more results from the left-leaning outlets than those right leaning. For example, 96% of searches for \u201celection\u201d resulted in left-leaning outlets.<\/p>\n Google has denied MRC\u2019<\/span><\/a>s claims.<\/p>\n