Artificial intelligence has made it faster and easier for Google’s leftist bias to influence users, a new Pew Research survey indicates.
MRC has shown that Google has repeatedly buried Republican candidates and right-leaning news sources in search results, but thanks to AI, Google users may not be interacting with the search results at all. Just as users were more likely to click on the first three search results, Pew Research found that “Google users who encounter an AI summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than users who do not see one.”
The survey additionally uncovered that in just one percent of searches, users clicked on a link in the AI summary, and overall, users were “more likely to end their browsing session entirely after visiting a search page with an AI summary than on pages without a summary.” In other words, many users will take what Gemini says at face value without further investigating the AI answer, and they may even be satisfied enough so as not to even examine the search results.
This is especially concerning, considering the sources Google relies upon. For example, Pew Research further found that leftist-biased Wikipedia is twice as likely to be cited by the auto-generated Gemini response as it is to appear in Google Search.
MRC has uncovered that Wikipedia has effectively blacklisted all major right-leaning media sources from being cited on its website. Wikipedia editors also trashed the pages of Trump administration appointees like Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, FBI Director Kash Patel and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard after Trump nominated them. The edits highlighted and exaggerated criticisms of the nominees and downplayed their achievements.
Wikipedia bias has, in fact, become so partisan that co-founder Larry Sanger once called it “one of the most effective organs of Establishment propaganda in history.” And at the request of Sanger, Musk recently declared that “Wikipedia cannot be used as a definitive source for [X] Community Notes.”
Other top sources included news outlets, YouTube, which shares a parent company with Google, and Reddit, a platform that allows Google to train Gemini using its content. Google also has a contract allowing it to train using content from The Associated Press.
Pew conducted its survey in March when “around one-in-five Google searches” included a Gemini summary. As that number increases, users can expect to see an expansion of Google’s already well-documented bias: from its refusal to name Trump as the president expected to open the 2028 Olympic Games to its inability to definitively declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel.
This shift to AI will also further displace smaller news outlets and right-leaning media sources, which Google already has a pattern of burying. Not to mention the growing prominence of auto-generated AI responses could impact how voters inform themselves in the next year as the U.S. heads into the 2026 midterm elections.
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