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Maryam Khanum

Google Hits Back at Elon Musk Over Election Interference Claim: 'Very Few People Actually Search This Way'

On Tuesday, Elon Musk brought attention to a discrepancy between search results on Google, reposting another X user's post onto his own profile. (Credit: BRITTA PEDERSEN/Getty Images.)

Google has responded to allegations of election interference after social media users, including billionaire Elon Musk, accused the tech company of deliberately making it easier to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris than for former President Donald Trump.

Users on X (formerly Twitter) noticed that when they googled "where can I vote for Harris?" the search engine provided them with a map to their nearest polling station. However, when they searched "where can I vote for Trump?" no such map emerged, with the results simply yielding news articles about the 2024 election.

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