“Google is now openly admitting that they were blocking and eliminating search prompts regarding the assassination attempt on President Trump,” says Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.).
Google admitted that its autocomplete search results surrounding the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump was censored by design as part of the company’s policy for “hypothetical political violence against current figures.”
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), a member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, had launched an investigation into Google last month after it emerged the company’s autocomplete search results did not register the attempted assassination of Trump.
“If the autocomplete function is truly reflective of the recent searches completed on Google, the self-learning algorithms should have easily adjusted their autocomplete function during a massive increase in search queries over the last two weeks,” Marshall stated.
Marshall also sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai on July 31 demanding he show up before lawmakers and testify about the company’s conduct.
Responding to Marshall’s letter on Monday, Google Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Policy tried to justify the policies that led to the censorship of the autocomplete search results.
“We do not allow predictions that can be interpreted as accusations against individuals or groups of serious malevolent acts, where there is a lack of well-established or expert supporting evidence,” he said.
Weeks after the assassination attempt that left President @realDonaldTrump within centimeters of his life, @Google is still defending its misinformation, declaring the assassination attempt a ‘hypothetical act of political violence.’
Google’s top executives must come before the… pic.twitter.com/sXypavwOsl
— Dr. Roger Marshall (@RogerMarshallMD) August 14, 2024
“In the immediate aftermath of the horrific events in Butler, PA, these systems were still in place and predictions related to the assassination attempt failed to appear. We recognize that these out-of-date systems led to an inadequate user experience.”
Marshall said he was shocked by Google’s characterization of the attempted assassination of Trump as “hypothetical act political violence” and called the company “a monopolistic agent of propaganda for the globalist Left.”
“Google is now openly admitting that they were blocking and eliminating search prompts regarding the assassination attempt on President Trump,” the senator told Fox News Digital.
“Most shocking is their bizarre written defense that Trump’s assassination attempt was a ‘hypothetical act of political violence’ even up to the point of our public inquiry on July 28th.”
The most shocking part of @Google admitting they were blocking search prompts regarding the assassination attempt on President @realDonaldTrump is their bizarre written defense that the attempt was a ‘hypothetical act’ even up to the point of our public inquiry on July 28th. https://t.co/GEeuSVQ8Ex
— Dr. Roger Marshall (@RogerMarshallMD) August 14, 2024
“In response to this letter, I am demanding that Google’s top executives testify under oath before the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee,” the Kansas senator said.
“Under oath, they won’t be able to hide behind an algorithm or get away with corporate double-speak,” he added.
Read Google’s letter:
