Congress opens probe into whether Google search misled Americans on Trump assassination

House Oversight probe comes as Google faces antitrust ruling, Kamala Harris controversy

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Already facing a potential breakup from a devastating antitrust court ruling, Google got more bad news Wednesday when the main congressional oversight committee announced it had opened a probe into whether the search engine misled Americans about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump last month.

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Kentucky, revealed that Google told his staff last week that its search engine's autocomplete feature "omitted the Trump assassination attempt" from relevant searches because the firm failed to update "a safety protocol" against violence to recognize the former president had, in fact, been shot July 13 during an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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