Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) on Friday called for Google to be broken up, calling it a “progressive technology company” with “monopoly control of information.”
Vance writes: This is far more important than other election integrity issues. Monopoly control of information in our society clearly resides with progressive technology companies. ”
“In October and November, as millions of undecided voters weigh their presidential choices, they will turn to Google and ask, ‘Did Donald Trump say X?’ “Is Biden too old to be president?” The results they see will be clearly skewed toward Democrats. “It’s a threat to democracy,” he continued.
In October and November, as millions of undecided voters weigh their presidential choices, they will turn to Google and ask, “Did Donald Trump say X?” “Is Biden too old to be president?”
The results they see will be clearly biased toward Democrats.
Threat to democracy.
— JD Vance (@JDVance1) February 23, 2024
Vance made the call after journalist Tim Poole shared the following information: report Media bias watchdog AllSides discusses how Google News’ bias will only increase after the 2022 midterm elections.
Google News bias will become even more pronounced in 2022 and beyond.
63% of the articles came from media outlets that AllSides rated as lean or leftist. Only 6% were on the right.
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— AllSides (@AllSidesNow) February 22, 2024
“63% of the articles came from media that AllSides rated as lean or left-leaning; only 6% were from the right,” AllSides wrote.
Google’s left-wing bias affects not only Google News, but also search.
AllSides noted that “even for search terms like ‘abortion’ and ‘election,’ most of the results came from lean left news outlets.” The right outlet never exceeded his 12% of the results, except for the term “.
Even for search terms like “” and “,”, most of the results were from Lean Left outlets.
The right outlet never accounted for more than 12% of the results, except for the term “.” pic.twitter.com/GlF2Na79KP
— AllSides (@AllSidesNow) February 22, 2024
Vance is not alone in noting Google’s progressive bias.
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and owner of X/Twitter, says Google is running an “insane, racist and anti-civilization program” that is He said that this was made clear by the major AI fiasco.
“I’m glad Google is making such a big deal about AI image generation, because their crazy, racist, anti-civilization program is on display for everyone to see,” Musk said Thursday. wrote.
Google’s AI platform Gemini sparked a backlash after its AI image generator created politically correct but historically inaccurate images in response to user prompts.
“The problem isn’t just with Google Gemini, it’s with Google Search,” Musk said in response to the question. new york post‘s douglas murray“Google’s efforts to lecture us about diversity go beyond AI.”
Citing an example, Musk wrote, “I typed a Google query on my phone and the top two choices were Censorship Pros!”
I typed a Google query on my phone and the top two choices are professional censorship. pic.twitter.com/NC9nIi2GcV
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 22, 2024
Sean Moran is a policy reporter at Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMoran3.
