In late October, a lawsuit from Philadelphia’s district attorney accused the billionaire of running an “illegal lottery scheme” by giving swing state voters who signed a Musk PAC’s petition supporting conservative causes the chance to randomly win $1m in a daily prize drawing.

X owner and Trump supporter Elon Musk reposted a message on Election Day claiming Google is helping Harris voters find polling places, while not doing the same for Trump voters, but the search giant is doing no such thing. At about 3 p.m. EST on Tuesday ...

Musk did not accuse Google outright of bias, but his sharing of the post indicated a concern about potential favouritism in the platform’s search engine results.

Google recently found itself at the centre of a controversy involving alleged election interference after billionaire Elon Musk publicly accused the tech giant of displaying partisan bias in its search results.

It’s finally election week in America. Google CEO Sundar Pichai, according to a new story from the Verge, took the moment to remind his staff that Google — the world’s largest repository of up-to-date news — needs to be a “trusted source of information.

Elon Musk called the results “inexcusable.” Google said the panel triggered for “Harris” searches because Harris is also the name of a county in Texas. The tech company said searches with “Vance” would do the same, because Vance is also a ...

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