Google omits Trump assassination in its search bar autocomplete results

Google's autocomplete feature omitted the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump in its search bar results Sunday, Breitbart found. This confirms the fears of many on the right who believe that the left will attempt to erase the event from history. 

The news outlet experimented with search terms to see what they would pull up in relation to the attempt on Trump's life on July 13 at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. What Breitbart found was shocking, even for Google.

"Google has hidden autocomplete suggestions related to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. By removing autocomplete suggestions, the Masters of the World are trying to make it more difficult for users to access information about the attempt on Trump’s life," Alan Mastrangelo at Breitbart wrote.

"This is just the latest act of election interference by the internet giant," he added. The words tested Sunday included the phrase "assassination attempt," which pulled up several suggestions but none for Trump.

The autocomplete instead offered President Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and music icon Bob Marley and others. Even adding the first five letters of Trump's surname created suggestions related to President Harry Truman, while the full phrase "assassination attempt Trump" brought up nothing.

'Memory Hole'

Many have likened this to something out of George Orwell's dystopian novel, 1984. In it, the author describes a world where paper scraps with inconvenient information are sent down into a "memory hole" and through a pneumatic tube, eventually ending up burned in an incinerator.

The popular Libs of TikTok account called out Google on exactly this in a post on Sunday. "Hi Google @Google! Why are you censoring the ass*ss*nat*on attempt of DJT?? They’re trying to memory hole it."

Hi Google @Google! Why are you censoring the ass*ss*nat*on attempt of DJT??

They’re trying to memory hole it. pic.twitter.com/NtvD9pNovn

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 28, 2024

Unfortunately, this effort to downplay or erase the assassination attempt is something that happened right away. Moments after Trump was wounded in the ear by a gunman whose bullets killed one spectator and injured two more, media outlets were reluctant to report it as a shooting.

Establishment media headlines read "Secret Service rushes Trump off stage after he falls at rally," "Trump removed from stage after loud noises startle former president, crowd," and "Trump speech interrupted by Secret Service." Even Newsweek last week used the headline "Donald Trump Might Not Have Been Shot After All."

Big Tech Agenda

It's no surprise that Google would hide information on Trump, considering it has long been implicated in such schemes that favor leftists. However, it's not alone in carrying out this mission through Big Tech.

Meta's Facebook was also implicated this week for falsely claiming that the iconic photo of Trump raising his fist in the air immediately after being shot was "doctored," Fox Business News reported. The company's communications director, Dani Lever, said it was "an error" and offered an apology.

This was an error. This fact check was initially applied to a doctored photo showing the secret service agents smiling, and in some cases our systems incorrectly applied that fact check to the real photo. This has been fixed and we apologize for the mistake. https://t.co/y613GuuJpV

— Dani Lever (@Dani_Lever) July 29, 2024

Still, it doesn't take more than this "error" to cast doubt within the population about the photo's authenticity.  Perhaps this was a mistake, but it's undeniable that it comes at a time when there is clearly a bias against Trump.

The American people are not stupid, but it's difficult to know what the ramifications of these efforts will be. This is a new digital world that only requires a few keystrokes to make information disappear, and that's dangerous.