Google accused of censoring Trump assassination attempt

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 July 30, 2024

Google was caught trying to erase history by suppressing search results for the assassination attempt of Donald Trump. 

The search engine's auto-fill function was curiously unwilling to return any results relating to the July 13 shooting, until users noticed and made a stink about it.

As recently as Monday, searching "assassination attempt" on Google yielded several suggestions. But Trump was omitted, despite the intense public interest in this recent historic event.

Google censors Trump shooting?

Even typing in "assassination attempt trum” resulted in search results relating to Harry Truman, but not Trump. Elon Musk raised the alarm after noticing the strange pattern.

"Wow, Google has a search ban on President Donald Trump." Musk wrote on X. "Election interference?"

"They’re getting themselves into a lot of trouble if they interfere with the election," he continued.

After a public outcry, Google downplayed the concerns and said the autocomplete feature is "just a tool to help people save time." Google said that users can still make their own searches and insisted that "no manual action" was taken to bury the results.

"Following this terrible act, people turned to Google to find high quality information – we connected them with helpful results, and will continue to do so," the company said.

As of Tuesday, searching "assassination attempt" now yields the result "assassination attempt on Trump."

Trump responds

Facebook has also faced backlash for censoring the iconic picture of Trump raising his fist moments after getting shot. The site claims the image was incorrectly flagged as misinformation, but not everyone is buying it.

President Trump called out the alleged election interference on his social media platform Truth Social.

"Facebook has just admitted that it wrongly censored the Trump 'attempted assassination photo' and got caught. Same thing for Google. They made it virtually impossible to find pictures or anything about this heinous act. Both are facing BIG BACKLASH OVER CENSORSHIP CLAIMS," he wrote.

It's no secret, of course, that Google and Facebook are both run by Democrats.

George Orwell coined the phrase "memory hole" in his book 1984 to describe the constant rewriting of history by the story's fictional dictatorship.

Google, apparently, thinks 1984 is an instruction manual.

The apparent effort to "memory hole" the assassination attempt coincides with a concerted effort by the media to hype up Kamala Harris.

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