Google has 'interfered' with elections 41 times over the last 16 years, Media Research Center says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : "Schneider and Pariseau cited AllSides and Dr. Robert Epstein, who performed additional research and found that "Google's search algorithm likely shifted at least 2.6 million votes to Hillary Clinton" in 2016 and that "Google's results and get-out-the-vote reminders favored Democrats and shifted the 2020 election results by at least 6 million votes.
2% : "Examples include appearing to favor Barack Obama over John McCain in 2008, favoring Obama over Mitt Romney in 2012, refusing to correct a "Google bomb" that "smeared" then-leading GOP primary candidate for president Rick Santorum, using its algorithm to exclude autofill results that were potentially damaging to Hilly Clinton in 2016, "not doing the same for then-candidates Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders," and working with partners to help likely pro-Clinton Latino voters go to the polls that same year, according to MRC Free Speech America.

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