All posts tagged "Google"

CHICAGO — In ballrooms, barrooms and backrooms this week, the business of big business is getting done with Democrats out of public view.

Yes, Bernie Sanders on Tuesday railed before Democratic National Convention delegates about how “millionaires and billionaires” should “not be able to buy elections.” And sure, curtailing “the corrupting influence of money in politics” is a plank in the 2024 Democratic Party platform.

But most Democrats in Chicago are ignoring the socialist senator and stepping over and around that party plank while pursuing cash that corporations and moneyed special interests are all too keen to contribute....

Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of rage at Vice President Kamala Harris and Google, both of whom he claimed were conspiring to corrupt the media.

"Wow! Google and the Harris Campaign are manipulating stories," Trump wrote. "Is this legal???"

Trump did not provide any evidence or context for this claim. ...

Justice Department officials are considering a bid to break up Alphabet, the parent company of Google, according to a new report from Bloomberg News.

This comes a week after a landmark ruling from a federal judge that Google holds an illegal monopoly over the search engine business, due to distribution contracts with device manufacturers that make it the "default" search option on many devices.

This has a far-reaching impact, as advertisers depend on Google for traffic and tweaks to its algorithm can make or break websites and shape their content....

The Vermont Democratic Party is one of many political fundraising committees that have fallen victim to theft during the past couple of years.

But it’s the only one where the thief deposited the stolen funds into a sports betting account.

A Raw Story analysis of Federal Election Commission records showed the Vermont Democratic Party experienced a fraudulent charge of $925 on its political committee debit card — and the money went into an account on the sports and fantasy gambling site FanDuel....

Google no longer lists the National Rifle Association as a "human rights group" following a Raw Story article last week that highlighted Google's own search description of the gun rights organization.

Google did not return Raw Story requests for comments about the change, which affects the NRA's prominently placed "knowledge panel" — a Google-generated box containing descriptive and statistical information that appears when someone searches for the group.

"Human rights group” has been listed immediately below the NRA’s name and next to the organization’s logo....

Google “National Rifle Association.”

Search returns describe the gun-rights behemoth in various ways.

“Gun rights advocacy group,” Wikipedia reads....