Billionaire Elon Musk is raising concerns after the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump did not appear in some Google searches.
Fox Business reported Sunday, “Google users searching for the attempted assassination of former President Trump were miffed when the desired results failed to populate on the search engine.”
“Instead, the website autocomplete feature omitted the results of the July 13 shooting, drawing criticism from social media users who accused the Big Tech giant of trying to influence the presidential election,” it continued. “Screenshots from Google instead showed recommended search results of the failed assassination of Ronald Reagan and the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, whose death sparked World War I, the shooting of Bob Marley and the failed attempt on former President Ford.”
According to the outlet, users the Trump assassination attempt would not show even when their searches included the words “Trump assassination attempt.”
On Monday, Musk shared a screen shot of the Google search bar with the Trump assassination attempt ommitted and added an emoji with a raised eyebrow.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 29, 2024
Donald Trump Jr. commented on the report saying, “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.”
In a statement Google told Fox Business there were no “manual action taken on these predictions.”
“Our systems have protections against Autocomplete predictions associated with political violence, which were working as intended prior to this horrific event occurring,” the statement continued. “We’re working on improvements to ensure our systems are more up to date.”
