“Big Tech is trying to interfere in the election again to help Kamala Harris. We all know this is intentional election interference from Google. Truly despicable.” Donald Trump Jr. wrote on X.
Contrary to information on July 13’s failed assassination attempt on Trump, screenshots from social media users showed recommended search results of the failed assassination of Ronald Reagan and the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, the shooting of Bob Marley and the failed attempt on former President Ford.
When searched “Trump assassination attempt”, the search engine yielded no results.
However, a google spokesperson told Fox news that there were no “manual actions” taken on these predictions. They said that their search engine systems have built-in safety features to stop suggestions about political violence.
“Our systems have protections against Autocomplete predictions associated with political violence, which were working as intended prior to this horrific event occurring,” Fox news quoted the spokesperson as saying.
The company spokesperson defended the autocomplete feature as a tool to “help people save time” and assured users that they can still search for anything they want.
“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 big tech giant was quoted as saying.