Big Tech accused of election interference

 Miranda Devine:

Forget stolen ballots or Krakens that never arrive. If anything changed the outcome of the 2020 election, it was Big Tech interference — and there’s nothing to say it won’t happen again in 2024.

Close to home, we saw the suppression of The Post’s October 2020 story on Hunter Biden’s laptop by Twitter and Facebook, which were manipulated by embedded FBI operatives, and kept Biden voters in the dark about the nature of the man they were supporting.

In the landmark free speech case, Missouri v. Biden, we saw how the federal government secretly coerced social media to censor speech that dissents from official thinking on everything from the origins of COVID-19, climate change and the efficacy of masks to gender identity and the war in Ukraine.

 
‘Mind control machine’

Then there is the $1 trillion multinational tech monopoly Google, which has been described as the ultimate “mind control machine.”

Google is supposed to be a neutral platform and enjoys all the legal protections of a public utility, much like the pipes delivering water to our homes.

Instead, its algorithms secretly manipulate search rankings to control opinions, whether it’s what you buy or what you know about a politician.

It’s hard to pin down Google’s bias because search results are ephemeral, but MRC Free Speech America gave it a shot this week, by recording Google search results for “Republican presidential campaign websites” on the eve of Wednesday night’s Republican primary debate.

Lo and behold, only two candidates popped up on the first, crucial page of search results Monday, and only one was a Republican: Will Hurd, a little-known never-Trumper from Texas, who doesn’t even have enough support to make it onto the debate stage.

There was no sign of Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Mike Pence, Tim Scott or Chris Christie.

But there was one other candidate who showed up on Page 1 of the Republican search results: fringe Democrat Marianne Williamson, whose RealClearPolitics average doesn’t even reach 5%. Maybe that’s Google’s idea of “balance.”

It was a different story when the MRC searched for “Democrat presidential campaign websites.”

Here, the results were logical, with front-runner Joe Biden’s campaign website topping Google’s first search page.

Williamson scored another appearance, with her website slotting into number two behind Biden. But Biden’s most dangerous challenger, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was nowhere to be seen on the first page, despite the fact his RealClearPolitics average is 15%, and his support is as high as 25% among Democrats, according to the latest Rasmussen poll.

“The Office of Hillary Rodham Clinton” did appear on Google’s first page, in 10th place, with “Elizabeth Warren for Senate” in 14th. Ironically, just above Warren was a link to a report on an Iranian website: ”Google Hiding Websites of Trump, Other Biden challengers.”

The MRC points out that less than 1% of users ever click past the first page of search results. If you are not on the first page, you basically don’t exist in Google’s world.
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The libs have to rig the system to win.  For a reprobate like Biden to be successful, the tech giants have to suppress negative information about him and suppress content about other candidates from both parties.  Joe Biden is one of the worst presidents in history.  Trump was a far more successful president despite the attempts of the liberal media to push the Russian collusion hoax and other faux material about him. 

Why is Google suppressing content about the candidates?  They appear to be acting like the Soviet era media in Russia.