Republicans have highlighted that Googleâs search is covering up news reports regarding the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump.
According to Newsweek, the search engineâs autocomplete feature is not showing results for the shooting at Trumpâs rally in Pennsylvania on July 13.
After widespread criticism, Google has said that âwe are working on improvements.â
When users entered âassassination attempt of Tr', results did not come up on Google instead, the results featured reports about the attempted assassination of former president Harry S. Truman in 1950.
The spokesperson for Google told Newsweek, âWe are working on improvements to ensure our systems are more up-to-date.â
The spokesperson also made all the allegations of âmanual actionâ and said that the system has protection against the predictions regarding political violence and that they are âworking as intended prior to this horrific event occurringâ in Pennsylvania.
A Google representative further added, âOf course, Autocomplete is just a tool to help people save time, and they can still search for anything they want to. Following this terrible act, people turned to Google to find high-quality informationâwe connected them with helpful results and will continue to do so."
To note, GOP members accused Google of trying to âinterfereâ in the presidential elections by âsuppressingâ search results related to their party nominee, Trump.
