Musk suggested Google is engaged in election interference by suppressing search results for Donald Trump
Twitter owner Elon Musk weighed in on the apparent Google search ban on terms related to Donald Trump, suggesting the tech giant was engaged in “election interference.”
“Wow, Google has a search ban on President Donald Trump! Election interference?” Musk Tweeted, with an accompanying picture that showed the search engine completing the phrase “President Donald…” with “president Donald duck” and “president donald regan.”
Wow, Google has a search ban on President Donald Trump!
Election interference? pic.twitter.com/dJzgVAAFZA
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 29, 2024
On Sunday, users reported that searches for “assassination attempt on tr” were completed by Google’s search engine with “assassination attempt on Truman” and other searches totally unrelated to the recent attempt to kill Donald Trump.
Typing the entire phrase “assassination attempt trump” yielded no autofilled results in the search bar.
Donald Trump Jr. commented, Tweeting, “Big Tech is trying to interfere in the election AGAIN to help Kamala Harris. We all know this is intentional election interference from Google. Truly despicable.”
The Google search ban appears to be the latest move in a broader strategy to minimise the assassination attempt against Donald Trump and prevent him from using it to his political advantage. This has involved the FBI, whose director Christopher Wray told Congress it was unclear whether Trump had actually been hit by a bullet, and the mainstream media, which has amplified such claims and also done its best to prevent the circulation of the iconic “first pump” photo of Trump standing bloodstained and defiant beneath the Stars and Stripes.
