What’s up with Meta, Google 2024 search results?

Some social media users, some of whom support former President Donald Trump , accused Google of manipulating search results and Meta ’s AI tool of hiding information about the attempted assassination of Trump .

Google said it has fixed some bugs in its autofill search feature, but said claims that it is trying to censor or ban search terms are false.

Experts said they don't believe Google or Meta are intentionally favoring one candidate, but that they need to rebuild trust in their platforms.

Search for "Donald Trump" and " Kamala Harris " returned results that included a box reading, "News about Harris - Donald Trump " Google said autocomplete wasn’t showing relevant predictions for "President Donald" Search engines are expected to provide users with information that may be connected to a search subject.

PolitiFact staff members prompted Meta AI with the same queries seen in these social media posts and received different responses.

We all got a summary of currently known details about the assassination attempt, but one response about Harris ’ 2024 presidential campaign incorrectly said Harris had not announced a run this year .

Tech companies should label their AI products as being in Beta, or a testing mode.