The Media Research Center has long targeted Google for failing to display right-wing bias in its search results and other instances of not sucking up to the Trump regime. Unsurprisingly, it has continued throughout this year as well. Tom Olohan touted an anti-Google rant from a right-wing senator in a Feb. 21 post:
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) ripped search giant Google for abusing its power to exert influence over the minds of Americans.
Schmitt discussed how platforms like Google get away with their rampant bias with Article III Project Founder and President Mike Davis at a Thursday CPAC appearance. Both speakers made plain that a lack of real free market competition lay at the root of Google’s ability and willingness to censor and write off a significant portion of the country, conservatives. Schmitt called for transparency and competition.
“Google is really the ultimate black box,” Schmitt said. “That algorithm? Like if you’re a business or whatever, or you’re a political candidate, there’s a huge difference between you being on page one of the search and page 12 of the search, right? And nobody gets to see the wizard right now, nobody gets to see it.”
Schmitt added, “So I think some of the litigation as relates to Google is really important to sort of bust that up so you have real competition.”
And Google uses this monopoly to bury disfavored sources.
Olohan made no effort to contact Google for a chance to respond to Schmitt’s attacks.
Olohan served up a rant of his own in an April 30 post, this time over a Republican politician who wasn’t completely adhering to his employer’s anti-Google narrative:
Punchbowl News “fireside chat” with a key Big Tech executive turned out to be an effective commercial for the most biased titan in the industry: Google.
Punchbowl News featured Google Vice President Lisa Gevelber, founder of “Grow with Google,” and Rep. Laurel Lee (R-FL) in a Tuesday event on “Advancing with AI.” Stunningly, neither Punchbowl News nor Rep. Lee—who is the chair of the Subcommittee on Elections—levied any harsh criticism of the election-interfering behemoth that also controls YouTube, Chrome, Gemini and Android. Instead, the participants treated Google with kid gloves. When Punchbowl News Founder and CEO Anna Palmer asked Lee what artificial intelligence (AI) regulations Congress should prioritize, the congresswoman’s response sounded like a Google talking point.
“How can we get involved in some baseline standard that isn’t going to require, you know, for example: we don’t need to be looking at somebody’s algorithms,” Lee added. “Like, that—that’s not going to be a productive use of Congress.”
MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider was not impressed: “When the most giant bureaucracy, Google, is flatfooted and losing ground, President Joe Biden issued an executive order specifically trying to protect Google and its arcane closed-source AI algorithms in an obvious scheme to help Google catch up with its more innovative competitors,” he said. “I am concerned that Chairwoman Laurel Lee is falling into Google’s trap, and articulating its talking points. Congress must investigate Google for its election interference and determine how it manipulates search and AI algorithms to silence Americans’ constitutionally protected speech and pervert our election systems.”
Looks like Heathering is back again at the MRC.
Gabriela Pariseau spent a May 21 post whining that Google doesn’t hate transgender people as much as she does:
Google Search is spotlighting leftist organizations in a query asking whether gender transition surgery is an emergency medical service.
This National Emergency Medical Services Week, Google got the answer right, but it still elevated radical left-leaning sources like the Human Rights Campaign and Wikipedia. Google’s AI Gemini, which Google Search promotes at the top of its search results, ridiculously hedged in its answer: “No, gender transition surgery is generally not considered an emergency medical service in the traditional sense.” [Emphasis added].
MRC Free Speech America Director Michael Morris torched Google for its clear bias. “The term ridiculous doesn’t even begin to cover it. That Google Search would cite to one of the leading anti-science, leftist groups on sex and gender in its results betrays its obvious agenda, as the link provided from HRC did not even answer the question MRC researchers asked,” he said. “But this is just par for the course for the now, isn’t it? The search giant did its darndest to promote sources that push the leftist ideal on the ‘trans’ issue— including multiple citations to Wikipedia and an outdated, anti-scientific Biden-era screed.”
Neither Pariseau nor Morris explained why Google must demonize transgender people the way they do.
A May 28 post by Tim Kulcullen hyped a congressman complained that anti-vaxxer activists had their false claims identified as such by Google:
A freshman Ohio senator has lambasted Google’s YouTube for censoring critical information on the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a May 21 Homeland Security Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, Sen. Bernie Moreno (R, OH) condemned the Big Tech censorship of previous Senate testimony. Moreno highlighted YouTube’s deletion of videos of a 2021 senate hearing featuring testimony from Dr. Pierre Kory and Dr. Peter McCullough on the COVID-19 pandemic.
As reported by MRC at the time, YouTube (which is owned by Google) “removed video footage of a [December 2020] U.S. Senate hearing” in which Dr. McCullough testified on the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19. At the time, according to Breitbart, YouTube had said it would not “allow claims that contradicts local health authorities [sic] medical information about COVID-19, to include guidance on treatment, prevention or transmission guidance.”
In his 2025 testimony, McCullough declared: “Our hearing was actively suppressed, scrubbed off YouTube.”
Moreno responded: “So, just to clarify, not only were your viewpoints ignored, you were called a conspiracy theorist, a spreader of misinformation, somebody who didn’t know what they were doing by people who didn’t even take a science class in high school. And yet you’re a doctor, and you were completely ignored.”
Kilcullen curiously didn’t say what, exactly, McCullough and Kory said that caused their testimony to be taken down — perhaps that’s because he knows they are both anti-vaxxers who have ignored medical reality. We’ve documented McCullough’s history of COVID misinformation, and Kory is another misinformer who has lost a board certification over his anti-vaxxer attitudes and misplaced enthusiasm for ivermectin as a (debunked) cure for COVID. Kilcullen concluded with more factually deficient puffing:
After receiving notice that YouTube censored McCullough’s Senate testimony, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) commented via tweet: “Apparently, the ‘doctors’ at Google know more about practicing medicine than heroic doctors who have the courage and compassion to actually treat COVID patients and save lives.”
Kilcullen didn’t disclose that both McCullough and Kory have been discredited. That would have interfered with his partisan “censorship” narrative.