by Alana Mastrangelo
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) has announced that he is investigating Google for “censoring conservative speech,” saying the tech giant is manipulating search results leading into “the most consequential election in our nation’s history.”
“I am launching an investigation into Google — the biggest search engine in America — for censoring conservative speech during the most consequential election in our nation’s history,” Bailey revealed in a Thursday X post.
“Google is waging war on the democratic process,” the attorney general added. “It’s time to fight back.”
The tech giant dismissed Bailey’s allegations, calling them “totally false.”
“These claims are totally false,” a Google spokesperson told Reuters. “Search serves all our users, and our business rests on showing useful information to everyone — no matter what their political beliefs are.”
But Bailey told Fox Business, “We have reason to believe that Google is manipulating their search results to deemphasize information about the Trump campaign prior to Election Day.”
“I will not allow Google to interfere in the most consequential election in our nation’s history,” the attorney general added.