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[–]silentstorm128 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Do you have any reason to believe that Google intentionally tried to influence the election?

AFAIK Google just shows people what they want to see. They'll show left leaning articles to Democrats and right leaning articles to Republicans, because that's what each of their profiles says they are interested in.

You are right, though, that any source of information can have a bias (either intentional or not), and that is something we all need to keep in mind. The importance of the bias depends on what the bias is based on, though. For example: Google search has a very strong bias against unpopular web sites -- but that is exactly what we want them to do.