Google omits Trump assassination attempt from a key feature as Don Jr. claims 'Big Tech is trying to interfere in the election' | 28 July 2024 | A key Google feature is failing to show results for the attempted assassination of Donald Trump -- drawing claims from the former president's son that Big Tech companies are trying to influence the election. It has also sparked a Senate investigation. Google users were surprised to discover that the search engine's "autocomplete" was omitting suggested results related to the assassination attempt against Donald Trump. The anomaly quickly caught the attention of social media users, including a Texas congressman and Donald Trump Jr., who began sharing screenshots of their own examples showing Google search suggestions coming up empty for queries about the deadly Pennsylvania rally shooting. There’s no mention of Trump even when the entire search term "the assassination attempt of" is typed into the Google homepage search bar.

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