Google is once again eliminating right-leaning media outlets and organizations from search results.
MRC researchers searched the words “trump rescission” on Tuesday, the day the Trump administration sent a $9.4 billion rescissions package to Congress that would cut funds to USAID as well as PBS and NPR’s taxpayer funding. Not one of the 14 links the search giant provided led to a right-leaning media outlet or organization.
Instead, Google repeatedly propped up numerous leftist media outlets, including none other than NPR and PBS. Meanwhile, Google excluded Fox News, The Daily Caller and The Heritage Foundation from its search results, even though all three published articles on the topic.
MRC President David Bozell torched the search engine for its blatant bias. “This is just more evidence of how much Google hates Trump and how much it loves propping up these propaganda outlets,” Bozell said. “Google has abandoned any pretense of neutrality. Conservative voices are not merely being suppressed and shoved to the bottom of results, they’re being completely eliminated and erased.”
Nearly 40 percent of the links Google elevated came from NPR and PBS reporting on how they each might be stripped of public funds. In one piece—headlined “Trump asks Congress to claw back $1.1 billion from public media”—PBS tried to defend its taxpayer funding and spread doom and gloom about what might happen should it be pulled. NPR did something similar in another article headlined “Trump asks Congress to wipe out funding for public broadcasting.”
Google’s search results similarly included articles from NBC, CBS and Politico, which like NPR and PBS, are all outlets rated “lean left” by media bias ratings firm AllSides.