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Google Is Actively Promoting Kamala Harris and Censoring Donald Trump To Create Astroturfed Narrative That Her Campaign Is Performing Better Than It Really Is

Posted on Monday, August 5, 2024
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by Paul Ingrassia
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Unsurprisingly, Big Tech is once again repeating their fabled 2020 playbook in boosting the Democrat over the Republican in this year’s presidential race.  And of all the companies, Google has once again been the worst culprit.  The Silicon Valley-based company has spearheaded the charge in trafficking deceptive misinformation and outright propaganda, pulling all its weight behind Kamala Harris, and manufacturing a narrative around her that she is performing far better in the polls and on the campaign trail than President Trump, which could not be further from the truth.

The idea, however, is to utilize bad-faith actors in Silicon Valley, like Google, to generate a perception that Kamala Harris’ party has obtained newfound momentum in the wake of Joe Biden’s ouster from the contest, the latest any president has dropped out of the race in history – that has all the signs of an internal coup.  Because Biden was floundering badly before he was forced out, the Democrats resorted to a last-minute switcheroo, swapping the much younger Harris (59) for the dementia-ridden Biden (81).  The logic was to naturally lull the less informed into the belief, despite Harris polling historically worse than Biden all throughout their administration, that somehow this maneuver would give Democrats a new lease on life, reigniting the Democratic Party with the momentum to take it home this November – a party that otherwise looked headed for defeat with Biden atop the ticket. In politics, perception is all too often reality – and the perception of Kamala polling more favorably than Biden, even if untrue, can nevertheless have an impact in politics.

Thus, if a narrative can be contrived around Kamala Harris making a competitive race of one that just a month ago looked like a guaranteed Trump victory, that can be sufficient to later sabotage the 45th President’s campaign with more nefarious tactics, like a repeat of the same cheat that unjustly blocked him out of a second term four years ago.  Think of it this way: courts are more likely to review evidence in a time-pressed situation – like the critical days after Election Day – if the media narrative in the lead-up to November 5th were that Trump would be facing a deeply flawed candidate like Biden, who despite the odds pulled out a last-minute “victory” under highly questionable circumstances.  In contrast, if the narrative is that the polls are close, as is now the case with Kamala Harris, you will be more likely to confront a 2020-type situation, where courts, especially under a high duress situation, would be far less receptive to evidence pointing to election fraud, even when such evidence exists as it did in 2020, if the mainstream narrative in the lead-up to Election Day was that the race was tight, as they mainstream media and Big Tech is now signaling. 

In that regard, Big Tech – and Google, above all – whose parent company, Alphabet, contributed more money to Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign than any other group – and was responsible for staffing many high-level positions within the Biden administration, offers a powerful propaganda arm for Kamala Harris’ campaign.  This is dangerous, and not only because of Google’s outsized market share for search engines, where it operates as the textbook case of a Big Tech monopoly and effectively has total control over all information-flows in the United States.  The company thus stands as a very powerful weapon in the Democratic Party’s arsenal to manipulate public opinion and craft narratives – either directly via shadow-banning or censorship, or through subtler means like gaslighting, and curated search returns, that — for example — select against headlines that favor Donald Trump over Kamala Harris.

Big Tech – and Google, above all – whose parent company, Alphabet, contributed more money to Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign than any other group – and was responsible for staffing many high-level positions within the Biden administration, now offers a powerful propaganda arm for the Kamala Harris “reset.”

Of course, the astroturfed presentation of reality that Google carefully manufactures has been readily on display for a while now for the millions of Americans who rely on its search engine regularly for news and information, and are keenly familiar with the search engine’s deceptive tactics.  Over the past ten years especially, Google has functioned as an outright propaganda arm for the Democratic Party, joining its counterparts in cable news (i.e., CNN and MSNBC) and print publications (i.e., The New York Times and The Washington Post), by promoting woke holidays through “Google Doodles” while engineering its search functionality to rewrite history to be in alignment with an ultra leftist worldview. For example, among the holidays Google chooses to highlight with a celebratory “doodle” includes Juneteenth, International Women’s Day, Bastille Day, and “Waitangi Day.” 

Among the woke holidays Google chooses to highlight with a celebratory “doodle” include Juneteenth, International Women’s Day, Bastille Day, and “Waitangi Day.”  Notable omissions are Columbus Day, a federal holiday, and Easter, one of the most important holidays for Christians.

It notoriously does not celebrate Easter with a doodle, despite the overwhelming majority of its American audience being self-identified Christians.  Moreover, it chooses to willfully ignore Columbus Day, despite being a federal holiday, and when it does honor Christmas, another federal holiday, it does so only with secular imagery that never makes any reference to the holiday’s commemoration to the birth of Jesus.  The search engine also actively rewrites history by choosing to elevate relatively obscure figures, much as it did in 2023 with doodles paying homage to Adelaide Cabete, Surong Nguyet Anh, and Juntree Siriboonrod, while ignoring time-honored greats like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln.  Google would probably retort that its users are not isolated to the United States, and thus the doodles are designed to cater to an international audience.  Fine.  But when was the last time Google commemorated Mozart, Shakespeare, Da Vinci, Tolstoy, or Aristotle, all non-Americans but individuals with great impacts on world history?  You’d be hard-pressed to find a doodle that does not commemorate a member of some historically “oppressed” group, often on gender and racial lines – or at the bare minimum, in the chance occurrence Google does celebrate a white man, did not have a politically liberal ideology or agenda.

The Google Doodle for Christmas: which is completely secular and devoid of any Christian imagery or symbolism, such as a cross or manger.

The importance of this discussion on doodles commemorating woke holidays, people, and causes is that it indicates the company’s broader commitment to liberalism and a leftist-borderline-Marxist view of history, one that is outwardly opposed to someone who shares Donald Trump’s nationalist and conservative worldview, which exalts the figures of our past, and recognizes them – regardless of their flaws – as integral parts to our history and national identity. 

In the parlance of American politics, this bias is vindicated by even just an ancillary perusal of election-related topics.  For example, a Google search of presidential polling would have any uninformed user believing that Kamala Harris was ahead in the polls, even though Real Clear Politics, a polling aggregator, still has President Trump in the lead.  This remains true over and above all the media hype that has surrounded Kamala Harris ever since Biden dropped out. 

A Google search for “donald trump polling lead over kamala harris” yields returns that would have you believe the very opposite is true: that Kamala Harris is now ahead in the polls, a falsehood.
How Google presents the latest presidential polling between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
The reality of the latest RCP polling, which, despite all the media-contrived Kamala hype, still gives President Trump a lead.

It is notable that the search returns offer a smorgasbord of left-leaning outlets, such as CNN and the Washington Post, both of whose editorial positions are decidedly pro-Harris. But Google’s liberal bias goes well beyond mere polling.  It likewise extends to the framing of narratives surrounding either candidate.  For example, recently investigative journalist Laura Loomer blew the lid off an explosive story involving an extramarital affair Kamala’s husband, Doug Emhoff, had with his daughter’s nanny, an elementary school teacher, while still married to his first wife.  Reportedly, Emhoff impregnated the nanny, who allegedly had the child aborted – which led to the divorce of Emhoff and his first wife. 

A quick search of the story is an illuminating case study of how Google’s search engine operates, working to clean up “bad” information that might negatively affect Kamala Harris’ campaign.  For instance, the Doug Emhoff affair story was originally published in the Daily Mail – however, the Daily Mail (nor Laura Loomer, the investigative journalist who first broke the story) is not included in any of the top returns for the story. 

The Doug Emhoff affair was originally published in the Daily Mail – however, neither that publication (nor Laura Loomer, the investigative journalist who first broke the story) is featured in any of the top search results on Google. 

Furthermore, the headlines that are produced from my own Google search into the story may be classified as being overwhelmingly apologetic or remorseful in tenor.  CNN’s headline says “Emhoff acknowledges affair during first marriage after tabloid report.”  The New York Times similarly reads “Doug Emhoff, Husband of Kamala Harris, Acknowledges Long-Ago Affair.”  CBS News’ result says, “Second gentleman Doug Emhoff admits affair during first marriage.”  In nearly every case, Google selects for headlines using language that sugarcoats what happened, and puts it in the best possible framing for Kamala Harris – whose name is only explicitly featured in a handful of the headlines of the top five returns.

Meanwhile, contrast that with a recent appearance Donald Trump made at the National Association of Black Journalists Conference in Chicago last week, an event that elicited a furor media-fabricated controversy based on a few remarks the President made questioning Harris’ ancestral background.  The returns generated by Google all come from left-leaning outlets, like CNN and NPR, featuring headlines like “Trump’s hostility to Black journalists renews questions over how news media should cover his rhetoric” that are disproportionately negative towards Donald Trump.

The returns generated by Google from President Trump’s recent visit to the Black Journalists Convention in Chicago virtually all come from left-leaning outlets, like CNN and NPR, and feature headlines such as “Trump’s hostility to Black journalists renews questions over how news media should cover his rhetoric” that disfavor Donald Trump.

The anti-Trump gaslighting gets even more nefarious when Google search users attempt to look into President Trump’s recent failed assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, which occurred less than a month ago.  A Google Search of “Trump assassination attempt” returns results that frame the near-tragedy in the worst possible light: clearly showcasing an anti-Trump bias. 

The first result preposterously compares the President’s near-assassination to Benito Mussolini, the Fascist Italian dictator, while another result, from the anti-Trump Washington Post, reads “Trump baselessly blames assassination attempt on Democratic messaging.” 

Google’s first result preposterously compares the President’s near-assassination to a piece on Benito Mussolini, the Fascist Italian dictator, while another result, from the anti-Trump Washington Post, reads “Trump baselessly blames assignation attempt on Democratic messaging.” 

Even more alarmingly, a “Google Videos” search does not return the video of that near-assassination attempt on any of its first few pages. One has to dig for pages and pages to finally produce a result showcasing the full length uninterrupted video from that day, yet more evidence of anti-Trump bias.  One would expect that the first result to appear for a search of “trump assassination attempt” would be a video of, well, that July 13th rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

One has to go for pages and pages on a Google Videos search to finally produce a result showcasing the full length uninterrupted video from that day, yet more evidence of Google’s anti-Trump bias.

I even gave the search engine the benefit of the doubt, and used Boolean operators like quotation marks — but got the same disappointing result of no full length videos of the near tragedy in Butler, only commentaries and soundbites:

What this demonstrates is that Google, the de facto leader of Silicon Valley’s woke shadow regime, is actively tilting the scales in Kamala Harris’ favor by gaslighting, memory-holing, and outright censoring content that would benefit Donald Trump.  We conservatives already know all too well from 2020, that Big Tech is wont to collude to ban conservative voices, including then President Trump, and stories – such as the New York Post’s now-infamous Hunter Biden laptop story censure by Facebook, that polling supports would have proven outcome-determinative in swaying the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Google further helps do the Democrats’ bidding by downplaying the ties far left groups, like BLM and Antifa, have to Kamala Harris, even though as a senator Kamala Harris was one of BLM’s most fervent supporters during the peak of the 2020 George Floyd riots, the most economically destructive riots in American history that resulted in billions of damages nationwide and nearly razed Portland and Minneapolis.

The deeper problem, which was exposed once the Hunter Biden story’s censure by the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force became widely known, is the collusion between intelligence and other governmental agencies and technology companies like Facebook (now Meta) and Google.  Case in point: FBI director Christopher Wray’s recent attempt to downplay President Trump’s near-assassination.  The disgraced FBI director testified last month before the House Judiciary Committee that President Trump might have been grazed by shrapnel or glass, and not a bullet, a completely false reframing of the events of that day.  The comments were widely criticized, no less by the FBI itself, which thereafter issued an official statement clarifying that “what struck … President Trump in the ear was a bullet…”. It is obvious why Wray sought to undermine and gaslight the events of that day: to make President Trump look less “badass” – in the words of Mark Zuckerberg – because the iconic image of him standing up and shouting “Fight! Fight! Fight!” is certainly to the 45th President’s political advantage (and to the detriment of Kamala Harris’) in a hotly contested election cycle. 

Moreover, Christopher Wray also sought to duplicitously sow doubts into the official narrative, making the President seem less brave than he was, or, in the most cynical interpretation, obliquely green-light the horrific attempt on the 45th President’s life.  Whatever the motive, Google’s attempt to memory-hole the story must be seen in tandem with Christopher Wray’s attempt to sow doubts into the official narrative that President Trump was shot with a bullet.  This should be taken very seriously, especially in light of the well-documented cases of collusion between the FBI and Big Tech that have occurred for years – and the ongoing efforts, which remain in effect today, by these two organizations to quash pro-Trump sentiment and narratives in the lead-up to a decisive presidential election, where Google, if not all of Silicon Valley, has clearly made known its preferred candidate this cycle – and that candidate patently is not Donald Trump.

While Donald Trump has reason to be optimistic that the sentiment has shifted to some degree in Silicon Valley, with Big Tech gurus like Elon Musk, David Sacks, and others now coming to his corner – and committing reportedly tens of millions of dollars behind him this race, there is still a great deal of sabotage being done behind the scenes – a conspiracy implicating people nestled in the highest corridors of power in Washington and Silicon Valley. 

It is therefore incumbent that we, the people, continue to hold Big Tech’s feet to the fire – and use favorable platforms like X, Truth Social, and Rumble – to continue to highlight Google’s censorship and gaslighting of conservative voices, and spread the message that the search engine is not the objective and unbiased tool it pretends to be, but a devoted foot soldier in the Left’s army committing to rewriting history and making sure President Trump never sees the inside of the Oval Office again.  Conservatives must call them out for this, notify lawmakers on Capitol Hill to conduct hearings, and stop Google and Big Tech’s censorship crusade in their tracks — for the integrity of both the First Amendment — and a free press — is what is at stake if we fail to act.

Paul Ingrassia is a Constitutional Scholar; Communications Director of the NCLU; a two-time Claremont Fellow, and is on the Board of Advisors of the New York Young Republican Club and the Italian American Civil Rights LeagueHe writes a widely read Substack that is regularly posted on Truth Social by President Trump. Follow him on X @PaulIngrassiaSubstackTruth SocialInstagram, and Rumble.

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Jackie
Jackie
7 days ago

There is nothing on Google or any main stream TV / streaming / cable news that I would trust to carry the truth or even just present the facts and that includes all the social media.The easiest thing to do is believe your eyes and pocket book and vote accordingly.

Jed
Jed
7 days ago

I tried the search for “Donald Trump” on google just now (8/6/24 – 2pm ET) and it is a reasonable list of results RIGHT NOW. This, of course, does not contradict what was written in the article, but shows that they ARE subject to pressure. And it is worth making noise when the issues are discovered.

RC
RC
8 days ago

Game plan same as 2020, hide her, then have 10 million illegal votes, then declare victory and destroy America.

Granny
Granny
7 days ago

Here we go again!!! Only the uninformed and or the doesn’t matter group listen or watch the mainstream reports, but there are enough of them to change the election! We have to pray harder people; our nation is worth it!!!! God Blessed America and we forgot to thank Him and here we are!!! But if we can somehow turn back; He will heal us! We need a powerful leader who fears and honors God to do that.

nyyluvr4ever
nyyluvr4ever
8 days ago

The word is already out on Google for doing this. Not to worry. After Kamala Harris’s choice for vice president I don’t think they got a chance in hell of winning the election. All they need to do is focus on her record.

Brooke
Brooke
7 days ago

When the honeymoon is over, the polling numbers will be much more accurate. When Kamala starts cackling and can’t answer the simplest questions, people will wake up.
Go Donald and JD!

Joy
Joy
8 days ago

A very good alternative to Google is Duck Duck Go. It also doesn’t track your searches and it does everything Google does, it’s not Woke. My husband and I use it and it works great for us.

Jim Johnson
Jim Johnson
7 days ago

Google’s founders are both anti-American and pro totalitarian. Always have been, always will be. Their company reflects those beliefs. No surprise. If you believe in subjugation and slavery, they’re your guys. Absolutely opposed to free citizenship, believe people should be subjects.

WJS
WJS
8 days ago

Hopefully this court decision against Google that was, I believe just announced will help to break the stranglehold Google has over other search engines.

Stephen Russell
Stephen Russell
7 days ago

Rerun 2020 again

Nick
Nick
7 days ago

How does Google keep it section 230 exemption? They are not just a publisher they are a Content creator and editor. Could it be that they’re radical left-wing liberals? Say It Isn’t So

anna hubert
anna hubert
7 days ago

No surprise there.

Ol1
Ol1
7 days ago

What will the “Courts” actually do about it?

Max
Max
8 days ago

If you haven’t already done it, DUMP GOOGLE!!!

James Rowland
James Rowland
4 days ago

What has happened to our media? We used to be able to trust what they said to us and used to trust that the wouldn’t be playing politics with us. Now we can’t believe anything they say. They censor any news about conservatives, censor comments from conservatives and have even banned Israeli media so that Google could paint whatever picture they would like about the conflict there. It has to be stopped.

Centurion
Centurion
7 days ago

Stop using google. Use Brave or Mojeek.

James
James
7 days ago

DuckDuckGo, no more Google.

TOBS
TOBS
7 days ago

F..K GOOGLE SWITCH TO DUCK DUCK GO

Robert Chase
Robert Chase
7 days ago

Google needs stiff penalties for election interference. If we had a DOJ that might be happening now.

D Torrens
D Torrens
7 days ago

Google is a crock of dung!

Robert Zuccaro
Robert Zuccaro
7 days ago

Republicans especially Trump need to freeze these ppl out of the conversation: don’t engage them, don’t answer their questions, do not attend their biased debates, don’t go on their Sunday shiws, etc. It won’t stop the gaslighting and the lies but it might become a bigger story then one they can make up!

Richard Barnhart
Richard Barnhart
7 days ago

Why are we even giving recognition of any sort to Harris or the campaign?!!!
I’ve replaced google and with Duck Duck Go as my search engine.
Move on!! Ignore the socialism and stand firm and loyal to God, family and our country under God! Millions have stood by this principle that they have created and died for the American Way!! We.. the descendants have no other option than to stand firm on this foundation!!

Steven C.Alton
Steven C.Alton
7 days ago

Google is just so many other news / streaming organization they are liberal, socialist and communist who want to destroy American, Christian,Jewish people the same way the Germans did in World War 2 I’m so glad they lost their anti-trust suit.

JAMES CARLYLE
JAMES CARLYLE
7 days ago

Google is a subversive entity as are most of the MSM-they exist for themselves, not our country, nor the citizens of our country. It is disappointing that our elected “officials” do not act to protect us and our country from this abuse.
Their agenda seems to be reelection and acquiring large amounts of money through influence peddling as in the Biden family example. No service given but excessive financial awards. Certainly a great incentive but completely corrupt.

michaelR
michaelR
7 days ago

It’s the same thing on yahoo. You open your device to get mail, and there’s ten feet worth of useless articles in which every third or forth article is an article against or demeaning towards Trump. It’s that way Monday thorough Friday every week/month.

Steve N
Steve N
7 days ago

Same on duckduckgo and Wikipedia

Ol1
Ol1
8 days ago

Spaciest of Space cadets to ever receive the anointing of BHO, and
WJC, and HRC?

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