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Missouri AG claims Google censors Trump, demands info on search algorithm


Bailey to subpoena info on algorithms; Google says “claims are totally false.”…

Bailey issued an investigative demand, but a federal judge ordered him to halt the Media Matters probe because it appeared the state attorney general was taking retaliatory actions designed to chill speech. Trump was referring to claims by the Media Research Center, a conservative group that alleged Google "very clearly pads its search results about political candidates with leftist legacy news articles, many of which are hostile to Republicans and either neutral or favorable toward Democrats." In January 2023, the Federal Election Commission rejected a related RNC complaint that alleged Gmail's spam filtering amounted to "illegal in-kind contributions made by Google to Biden For President and other Democrat candidates."

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