Trump calls for prosecution of Google over search results he says favor Harris

Donald Trump connected Friday called for Google to beryllium criminally prosecuted for what nan Republican presidential nominee called nan company's bias toward his election opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, successful online search results.

Trump successful a societal media station wrote that if nan Department of Justice does not prosecute Google "for this blatant interference of Elections" he would petition its prosecution "when I triumph nan predetermination and go President of nan United States!"

He seemed to beryllium reacting to a caller study by nan right-leaning Media Research Center, aliases MRC, which purportedly recovered that Google hunt motor results tended to show news articles that supposedly were affirmative to nan Democrat Harris up of Trump's ain run website erstwhile a personification searched for "Donald Trump statesmanlike title 2024."

In his station connected Truth Social, Trump wrote: "It has been wished that Google has illegally utilized a strategy of only revealing and displaying bad stories astir Donald J. Trump, immoderate made up for this intent while, astatine nan aforesaid time, only revealing bully stories astir Comrade Kamala Harris."

MRC laminitis Brent Bozell told Fox News Digital connected Wednesday that "Google is trying to stack nan platform successful favour of Kamala Harris."

A Google spokesperson, erstwhile contacted by CNBC astir Trump's post, pointed to nan company's earlier connection connected nan report.

"Both run websites consistently look astatine nan apical of Search for applicable and communal hunt queries," Google said astatine that time. "This study looked astatine a azygous uncommon hunt word connected a azygous time a fewer weeks ago, and moreover for that search, some candidates' websites classed successful nan apical results connected Google." 

The spokesperson connected Friday besides said nan MRC study looks astatine a "very uncommon query," and said that nan report's conclusions are wrong.

"Queries astir nan statesmanlike predetermination aliases candidates mostly aboveground links to perpetually changing news articles reflecting what's connected nan web — truthful they alteration each nan time," nan spokesperson said. "We perfectly do not manipulate hunt results to favour immoderate candidate."'

"In fact, outlets person reported that nan Trump run website appears higher successful Google results for these queries, compared to different hunt engines' results."

Harris' run had nary contiguous remark connected Trump's claim.

CNBC has requested remark from Trump's campaign.