Meet the latest act of leftist hypocrisy: accusing social media platform X of sabotaging Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential bid while ignoring the months-long election interference by Google against former President Donald Trump.
On Monday, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) requested House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) launch an investigation into the Elon Musk-owned X platform, suggesting its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was attacking “free and fair” elections by tipping “the scales in favor of one political party”—implying Republicans.
But why the concern now? MRC researchers caught Google burying Trump’s presidential campaign website on numerous occasions over 328 days, while it only took Musk’s Grok to make a correction after 10 days.
“Happy to see that Congressman Nadler is finally in agreement with the MRC that Big Tech censorship is a major problem, especially as it pertains to protecting democracy,” said MRC Free Speech America Director Michael Morris. “Instead of cherry picking pro-free speech platforms like X who make corrections quickly, Rep. Nadler should focus his ire on those Big Tech platforms that are doing an overwhelming amount of election-interfering censorship.”
Morris’s remarks referred to two MRC recent studies showing the 41 times Google interfered in elections, and 39 times Facebook interfered in elections, since 2008 is a good place to start.
Nadler’s cynical call to action stems from claims that Grok committed the unforgivable sin of affirming Harris had missed the ballot deadlines in nine states. The error lasted just over a week, with X taking swift action following complaints from the Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon.
In his five-page letter to Jordan, Nadler sounded the alarm (albeit unsuccessfully) about X’s “clear and imminent threat” to the 2024 presidential election. Of course, the so-called threat is that, for 10 days, an AI chatbot made an error despite openly warning users it might do so.
Nadler’s hysteria stands in stark contrast to the left’s silence over Google’s nearly year-long interference in the 2024 presidential election by propping up the campaign website of the Biden-Harris campaign while burying those of Republican candidates, including former President Trump, now the presumptive nominee.
MRC Free Speech America first unveiled evidence of such censorship on Aug. 22, 2023. Since then, MRC has published several reports about Trump and other Republicans' campaign websites being buried in Google’s search results. MRC conducted its most recent Google Search study, which drew similarly biased results, on July 15, 2024. That amounts to 328 days of continuous censorship. Speak about tipping the scale.
Nadler Press Secretary Daniel Rubin and Communications Director Matt Jansen did not immediately respond to MRC Free Speech America’s request for comment before publication. Minnesota Secretary of State Deputy Communications Director Cassondra Knudson did not offer detailed answers to MRC’s questions. Instead, she said, “Our office has not communicated with Rep. Nadler or the House Judiciary Committee on the letter.”
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