Says the person who posted a deepfake of Harris bashing Biden, on his platform which is just as capable of election interference as Google if this screenshot were accurate (and it seemingly isn't).
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2024
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Yeah, okay.
using the same search term
But if you just press "enter" this is what you'll see:
Hardly feels like election interference when all you have to do is press a single key.
Yeah looks like ole Elon is blocking it himself. I get the same as you.
Let's be honest, hiding information about Donald Trump would probably be a net benefit to Trump's campaign. If google actually wanted to hurt Trump they'd make the top results of every search a never ending stream of all of his legal issues, scandals, moral failings, insane statements, shady connections, and basically everything else that's awful about him. Definitely would want to include suggested search add ons like project 2025, and 25th amendment.
You're right, although technically this was just about the suggestions.
I reached pretty much the same conclusion, though: having "President Donald Trump" in suggestions like that is a gentle "don't forget to vote" reminder for the---maybe not swaying, but non-zero---community of people who commonly google fictional flightless avian presidents.
Google is clearly trying to confuse MAGAs and get them to vote for President Donald Duck.
The Q in Qanon stands for QUACK!
I put in "pr" and he came up. Elon definitely blocked it himself at some point and just forgot.
Or, more likely, he's deliberately lying.
It's the first result when you type "President D", or even just "D".
Musk being a lying cunt as usual.
There's no way he's actually this dumb, he's clearly playing his base at this point
I'm afraid he's kind of going to be the next Trump.
Extremely famous, check. Perceived as competent (by uniformed and uninformable), check. Spineless? Check. Chronic liar? Check. Cult-like followers? Check. Completely isolated from reality? Check. Narcissistic, obsessed by his own ego and social media? Check.
I speculate this is one way to nullify these accusations towards him. Makes it look like people just go "no u" when they accuse musk for pandering to trump.
Hey Elon, searched for 'truth' on eX-Twitter, only got 1m+ results of 'lie'.
Well that is one way to get that dude's name in the trending search results.
Prison for this grifter when?
I tried that myself a couple of hours ago and saw it was missing in the autocomplete options, but now you type 'p' and he pops up. Duckduckgo worked just fine
Why people who don't like him one bit keep obsessing about his tweets is beyond me.
Because he's powerful? Seems obvious