Google forced to explain how search works to Elon Musk after he claims bias on Election Day

Elon Musk has joined the chorus of conservative social media accounts promoting claims that Google is providing users with information about How to vote for Kamala Harris over her opponent.

The tech billionaire reposted a tweet from graphic designer DogeDesigner’s account, claiming that Google was “showing a ‘Where to Vote’ section with a map for Kamala Harris, but not for Donald Trump.” Post also false stated that Google is a major donor to the Democratic Party. (Investment firm Bain Capital donates more according to OpenSecrets.)

“Do others see it too?” Musk asked his more than 200 million followers.

He responded to another similar post with a curious raised eyebrows emoji.

The meaning was clear. Musk, the richest man in the world and owner of X, has spent more than $132 million supporting Trump and other conservative reasons for this election seem to suggest the tech giant was trying to influence the election.

Google quickly responded to the claims.

“The ‘Where to Vote’ panel is triggered for some specific queries because Harris is also the name of a county in Texas,” the company wrote on X, where Musk is based in Texas. “It’s the same with Vance because that’s also the name of the county. The fix is ​​coming. Please note that very few people actually search for polling places in this manner.”

“This has now been corrected,” the company later said. explainedwhat prompted Musk reply“Thanks for the clarification.”

The exchange appears to have left some in Musk’s online orbit unconvinced.

Valentina Gomez, a 25-year-old Republican who briefly went viral due to a series of homophobic remarks During the unsuccessful election campaign for the Missouri Secretary of State, he responded to Musk: “This is nonsense, and they are rushing to correct it because we caught them interfering in the Democratic Party elections.”

Critics argue that it is Musk who is trying to undo his influence on the election.

The Philadelphia district attorney filed the lawsuit in late October. accused billionaire who ran an “illegal lottery scheme” giving swing state voters who signed Musk’s PAC petition supporting conservatives a chance to randomly win $1 million in a daily prize drawing.

In court Monday, the PAC’s lawyer acknowledged that the winners of the sweepstakes were not chosen at random, but rather deliberately so that they would be paid as “representatives” of the group.

Attorney Chris Gobert told a judge in Philadelphia on Monday that there is no “prize to be won” at all, but instead recipients “must fulfill contractual obligations” on behalf of the PAC.

Musk asserts The award is not about selecting Republican voters for Trump, but rather about gathering supporters to “petition in support of the Constitution of the United States, and in particular freedom of speech and the right to bear arms.”