The Media Research Center’s war on Google continued in 2025 with a June 6 post by Gabriela Pariseau:
Google is once again eliminating right-leaning media outlets and organizations from search results.
MRC researchers searched the words “trump rescission” on Tuesday, the day the Trump administration sent a $9.4 billion rescissions package to Congress that would cut funds to USAID as well as PBS and NPR’s taxpayer funding. Not one of the 14 links the search giant provided led to a right-leaning media outlet or organization.
Instead, Google repeatedly propped up numerous leftist media outlets, including none other than NPR and PBS. Meanwhile, Google excluded Fox News, The Daily Caller and The Heritage Foundation from its search results, even though all three published articles on the topic.
Note Pariseau’s ideological bias here, “leftist” vs. “right-leaning” — as if the former was more severe than the latter. In fact, Fox News, the Daily Calller are all heavily right-wing outlets that would never admit there was a recession under Trump. Indeed, she references articles by NBC, CBS and Politico, which she asserts “are all outlets rated “lean left’ by media bias ratings firm AllSides.” Pariseau gave no explanation for why she equates “lean left” with “leftist,” nor did she admit that AllSides has a right-wing bias.
Luia Cornelio raged in a July 16 post:
On the eve of a critical Senate vote to end forced taxpayer subsidies for public radio, Google stepped in to help NPR dodge accountability after one of its Texas affiliates failed to deliver timely reporting about the devastating July 4 floods that killed at least 134 people across the state.
Both Google and NPR have been shown to use their resources to push a liberal agenda and support Democrats. It now appears that the tech giant is using its resources to try to help its public radio accomplice.
The tech giant adjusted its AI-generated responses, downplaying Texas Public Radio’s failure to issue timely alerts about the floods during the early morning of Independence Day, a Media Research Center review has found.
This follows an MRC report calling out TPR on Monday for slowwalking its live reporting of the Texas floods while posting calls to action on social media. TPR, a member of the influential NPR network, is participating in a lobbying campaign to bully lawmakers into continuing to funnel tax dollars into their coffers.
In fact, Texas Public Radio — which had been on an automataed schedule due to a holiday — quickly moved to live updates, according to NPR public editor Kelly McBride:
TPR vice president of news Dan Katz told me that he woke up the morning of July 4 to a phone call from a colleague who was seeing pictures of the devastation on social media. TPR had aired National Weather Service warnings about flooding the day before. “We didn’t know it would be that bad,” he told me. “Otherwise, we wouldn’t have been automated.”
By 9 a.m. Central time, Katz said, TPR was broadcasting information to the community and coordinating with NPR supervising editor Alfredo Carbajal, who is based in Texas.
[…]NPR and TPR also managed to avoid falling for a fake news story that two campers had been rescued from a tree, miles downstream. “We so badly wanted that to be true, but we didn’t have any sourcing to confirm it,” Katz said. “We prepared a shell post in case we could confirm it, but never published because we couldn’t confirm.”
Cornelio returned to complain in an Aug. 27 post:
Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook may soon be out of a job following mortgage fraud accusations — but that has not stopped Google from propping up leftist sources in her defense, the Media Research Center can confirm.
An MRC study found on Wednesday that Google almost entirely excluded right-leaning sources from search results related to President Donald Trump’s move to fire Cook. The embattled Biden appointee is under DOJ investigation for allegedly claiming two properties as her primary residence to secure favorable loans.
Cornelio didn’t explain why he, like Pariseau, used the biased “leftist” vs. “right-leaning” construct — nor did he nor any other MRC publish Cook’s defense that the accusation is based on “one stray reference” in a 2021 mortgage document that was “plainly innocuous in light of the several other truthful and more specific disclosures” about the homes she has purchased.
Cornelio perpetuated the MRC’s obsession with the sexual identity of suspected shooters in a post the next day:
The “don’t say trans challenge” has officially reached Google. The tech giant blocked stories identifying the Minneapolis mass shooter’s transgender identity from appearing in article headlines in its News tab, the Media Research Center can confirm.
None of the headlines that Google displayed in its News tab about the shooting on Thursday mentioned that Robin Westman, born Robert Westman, identified as “transgender.” This glaring omission is far from surprising, as it fits neatly with the legacy media’s efforts to downplay the rise of violence perpetrated by “transgender” individuals.
Cornelio did not explain why he put “transgender” in scare quotes. He also didn’t explain why he’s trying to hype the supposed “rise of violence perpetrated by ‘transgender’ individuals” when the opposite is actually the case.
Pariseau grumbled in a Sept. 2 post:
Google propped up an attack on the upcoming subcommittee hearing that will debate whether Congress should covertly re-fund leftist outlets NPR and PBS.
On Tuesday, the House appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies is doing a markup of a Fiscal Year 2026 spending bill. But when MRC researchers searched Google for the title of the hearing, the search giant elevated Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro’s (D-CT) negative press release about the hearing titled “House Republicans Continue Assault on Public Education and Research into Lifesaving Cures.” This was the first opinion-based link Google included and was included among the search engine’s “Top Stories.”
As the House Appropriations subcommittees meet to discuss, markup and amend Fiscal Year 2026 spending bills, adding in funding for the previously defunded leftist outlets NPR and PBS is on the table.
Pariseau failed to prove anything in DeLauro’s “negative press release” was inaccurate, or why Google must be dinged for linking to an article that is apparently true. Nevertheless, she whined in a Sept. 8 post:
Google is propping up the leftist media critiques of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s soon-to-be-released book, Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution.
The search giant’s “Top Stories” for Justice Barrett’s name and the book’s title highlighted an article by The Associated Press that commented that she hardly mentioned President Donald Trump and disputed the idea that America is in a constitutional crisis. Google displayed this article and the accompanying photo a total of six times between the general and News tab searches.
Articles by leftist legacy media outlet CBS News, which interviewed Barrett on CBS Sunday Morning, were also prominently featured, including an excerpt of her book and a report on the interview.
Again, Pariseau made no effort to disprove anything in the AP article.