A number of Republican figures have noted that Google’s search is not showing results for the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in its autocomplete feature, and Google has told Newsweek “we’re working on improvements.”
Users of the popular search engine are not seeing the recent shooting against the former president in Pennsylvania as a drop down option when typed in Google’s search bar.
Newsweek confirmed that mentions of the July 13 shooting do not come up on Google even when “assassination attempt of Tr” are typed in. Instead, the first result of the autocomplete feature is the attempted assassination of former president Harry S. Truman in 1950.
A spokesperson for Google denies that any “manual action” has taken been on the autocomplete predictions surrounding the assassination attempt of Trump.
Instead, Google’s systems have protections against autocomplete predictions associated with political violence, which were “working as intended prior to this horrific event occurring” in Pennsylvania.
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