X owner Elon Musk asked if this Election Day rumor was true. Our research found it was a mixture of truth and missing context.

A look into what searches have been trending for the last 24 hours, from questions about who is running to wanting to know the results of a specific state

Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees ahead of Election Day to “remember the role we play” and make sure “the products we build” are “a trusted source of information to people of every background and belief.”

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.

Google clarified that this difference occurred due to Harris also being the name of a Texas county, which automatically triggered the “Where to vote” map feature, a pattern also seen in Vance County searches. Google assured users that a fix was underway and stated that few users actually search for voting locations this way.

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 the owner of X had claimed that Google is allegedly doing election interference, leading to widespread uncertainty on social media X. Later on, Google clarified and Musk acknowledged the same.

Musk suggested Google’s ‘where to vote’ results favoured Harris. So Google explained how search works - X owner has donated tens of millions of dollars to support Trump campaign