Tech giant Google is scrambling to respond amid federal litigation as scrutiny over its search engine monopoly increasingly takes center stage.
Just as the Department of Justice concluded its case against Google over its illegal monopoly, the tech giant desperately announced it would appeal the decision if unfavorable — before the judges even released their opinion. “We will wait for the Court’s opinion. And we still strongly believe the Court’s original decision was wrong, and look forward to our eventual appeal,” Google wrote Saturday on X.
Google’s remarks come after losing rulings in three separate federal courts over the last year and a half. The courts found in April that Google does have an illegal monopoly on ads and search engines.
Google, a subsidiary of the megacorporation Alphabet, owns numerous other tech platforms, including Ad Manager, Gmail, Google Drive, YouTube, Gemini, Kaggle and the Google Play Store — also while developing and managing the Android operating system.
The DOJ already won an antitrust case against Google, exposing the tech giant’s unlawful domination in the search engine market. But Google’s influence goes even further, interfering in elections, manipulating information and suppressing dissent in favor of the left, as documented several times by MRC.
On May 21, MRC Free Speech America published its exclusive research showing that Google Search highlighted leftist organizations like Wikipedia and the Human Rights Campaign when asked whether gender transition surgery is an emergency medical service. Google’s Gemini AI, promoted at the top of search results, gave an unjustifiably vague answer: “No, gender transition surgery is generally not considered an emergency medical service in the traditional sense.” [Emphasis added].
That is hardly the only time Google Search has displayed extreme bias. MRC found that this bias was particularly evident both before and after the 2024 election. In each one of MRC’s exclusive six weekly searches leading up to Trump's election, when MRC put the search terms “donald trump presidential race 2024” and “kamala harris presidential race 2024” in Google Search, Google buried right-leaning news sites in search results, sometimes as much as 20+ pages deep.
Google Search also suppressed results on the stunning July 2024 assassination attempt on GOP nominee Donald Trump. In September, hours after the second assassination attempt on Trump, Google’s Gemini refused to respond to queries about it. Even after the election, MRC revealed that Google Search continued to provide overwhelmingly negative results on Trump administration nominees.
Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that Google be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency and an equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us at the Media Research Center contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.
