Google has omitted any mention of the former President’s assassination attempt (The European Conservative).
Users who searched “the assassination attempt of” into Google found that ‘Google Suggest’- a feature which provides search suggestions based on predictive text – failed to mention Trump.”
Supporters of the former President have responded furiously as it has emerged that the search engine selectively failed to pull up results about his attempted assassination.
The European Conservative decided to test claims made online. It entered the prompt and was offered suggested results assassination attempts on former presidents Ronald Reagan and Harry Truman, Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and Jamaican musician Bob Marley. But not about Trump.
The former president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., argued that “Big Tech is trying to interfere in the election AGAIN to help Kamala Harris.”
A spokesman from the tech company told the New York Post that there was no “manual action taken on these predictions,” and that its systems include “protections” against Autocomplete predictions “associated with political violence.”
Nonetheless, it is difficult to understand how this could explain the alleged suppression of the even more simple search request of “president Donald Trump.”
Across social media, internet users have been sharing examples over the weekend of Meta AI – an artificial intelligence tool founded by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg – suggesting that the attempted assassination of Trump was a “fictional” event.
These developments follow wider concerns regarding the state of online free speech and enquiry.
Indeed, UN Secretary-General António Guterres recently announced plans for new “Global Principles” to “guide” governments and Big Tech, assisting them to “completely eradicate” what he defines in subjective and capacious terms as ‘hate speech’.
In a statement issued on the occasion of the “International Day for Countering Hate Speech” – an event established by the UN General Assembly in 2021 – UN chief Guterres said there is “no acceptable level of hate speech”, and called for its global “eradication”.
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