Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that he launched an investigation into Google after the company allegedly censored conservative voices ahead of the election.
“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 wrote on X. “Google is waging war on the democratic process. It’s time to fight back.”
In a statement to Fox Business, Bailey said that his office has “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,” he added.
Google asserted that the allegations are “totally false.”
“Independent studies have confirmed that Google Search is non-partisan,” a Google spokesperson said. “Search serves all our users, and our business rests on showing useful information to everyone — no matter what their political beliefs are.”
According to The New York Post, Bailey will be investigating the “black-box algorithm that powers Google search.”
“Evidence has come to light that Google is de-emphasizing conservative speech or content — such as putting conservative reporting on Page 11 rather than Page 1 — by manipulating search results,” a spokesperson for Bailey said.
