Donald Trump has claimed Google will “pay a heavy price” after allegations that the Internet giant allowed altered headlines from a number of publications to be used in paid Google ads by the Harris-Walz campaign.
In a post on his Truth Social website, Trump said: “Google is a crooked election interference machine. Completely illegal, they will pay a big price for what they are doing!”
Trump included a link to an article by conservative news outlet Townhall that alleged the Harris-Walz campaign had edited headlines and descriptions in paid Google ads, such as House Republican Lance Gooden described as “a deliberate attempt to mislead voters by falsely implying the support of major news publications.”
The claim that the Harris-Walz team edited media headlines for their Google ads has not been independently confirmed by Newsweek.
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