Claims about Google search, Trump assassination attempt VERIFIED [Video]

Using Google to search the term “Trump assassination attempt” has never been blocked. However, it wasn’t showing up in autofilled search suggestions.

Viral social media posts claim that Google is suppressing searches of the July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, claimed Google has a search ban on Trump. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) posted a screenshot showing Trump’s assassination attempt did not appear in Google’s suggested searches and claimed Google is “trying to erase the attempted assassination of Trump.” Other viral posts claimed Google is “manipulating search results” to downplay the attempted assassination of Trump and is “suppressing searches” on his attempted assassination.

VERIFY received many questions about whether Google’s autocomplete feature was not populating searches about the assassination attempt against the former president.