Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey on Thursday announced an investigation into Google for allegedly suppressing conservative speech during the election cycle.
FOX Business has learned the Republican attorney general plans to subpoena the California-based tech giant to investigate its algorithms and how conservative speech is deemphasized by showing up on later pages.
Bailey has alleged Google is “waging a war on the Democratic process.”
“We have reason to believe that Google is manipulating their search results to deemphasize information about the Trump campaign prior to Election Day,” Bailey said in an exclusive statement to FOX Business. “I will not allow Google to interfere in the most consequential election in our nation’s history.”
In a statement to FOX Business, Google denied the attorney general’s claims, calling them “totally false.”
“Independent studies have confirmed that Google Search is non-partisan,” a company spokesperson said. “Search serves all our users, and our business rests on showing useful information to everyone – no matter what their political beliefs are.”