Is there any law that says Google (or others) can't be completely partisan in editorializing the presentation of anything they offer?
Could it count as donated advertising? They offer this service commercially for nonpolitical purposes, so is there any difference? Is this just a matter of "they haven't paid as much for the keyword bidding?"
Absolutely no such law. Think about how we (as a society, not the "freedom of speach absolutists") interpret the 1st Amendment. Newspapers with an ideological bent (like NYT WaPo) would immediately fall foul of it.
> He seemed to be reacting to a new study by the right-leaning Media Research Center, which purportedly found that Google search engine results tended to show news articles that supposedly were positive to the Democrat Harris ahead of Trump’s own campaign website when a user searched for “Donald Trump presidential race 2024.”
Er… I mean, yeah, probably, because:
(A) Most people searching that probably aren’t looking for his _campaign website_, they’re looking for news about the race, and
(B) He keeps going on about people eating cats and otherwise being weird, so, yeah, the average news article is probably not going to be favourable to him.
Like, this is very much a self-created problem; if you court publicity by being publicly crazy (and you’ve got to assume that this is a deliberate strategy), you have to expect much of that publicity to be negative.
Maybe it's showing positive news results for Harris because that's what the news is. And your campaign is a stinker of 2025 and immigration-fearmongering gish-gallop?
Google maybe reflecting reality. Alas for you, there's no one to sue for reality's well known liberal bias. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/?redirect=no&title=Reality_has_a_...