President Donald Trump announced on Friday that, if re-elected, he will urge the Department of Justice to investigate what he claims is Google’s “illegal activity” and “blatant interference” in U.S. elections.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, accused Google of intentionally suppressing negative stories about Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris while promoting negative ones about him. He wrote, “It has been determined that Google has illegally used a system of only revealing and displaying bad stories about Donald J. Trump… while, at the same time, only revealing good stories about Comrade Kamala Harris.”

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He continued, “This is an ILLEGAL ACTIVITY, and hopefully the Justice Department will criminally prosecute them for this blatant Interference of Elections. If not… I will request their prosecution, at the maximum levels, when I win the Election, and become President of the United States!”

A Google representative has reportedly admitted the company’s bias favors Democrats. According to a Media Research Center (MRC) analysis, Trump’s accusations aren’t without merit. The MRC found that Google search results tend to prioritize left-leaning news outlets and promote stories favorable to Democrats, while downplaying or ignoring information about Trump and other Republican candidates.

The MRC’s findings revealed that in the days leading up to the first presidential debate between Trump and Joe Biden, a Google search for “presidential race 2024” consistently placed Biden’s campaign website among the top results. Trump’s website, however, did not appear on the first page.

Following an assassination attempt on Trump, the autocomplete function in Google searches also failed to suggest Trump’s name, instead redirecting users to figures like Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan. Google explained that this was due to a default mechanism intended to prevent searches related to potential political violence.