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Apple and Google suppressed negative Graham Platner stories for months on their news platform, study finds
Yahoo ^ | 07/13/20206

Posted on 07/13/2026 2:43:04 PM PDT by devane617

Apple and Google spent months suppressing negative news stories about the scandal-plagued Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner prior to his recent downfall, according to a new study obtained by Fox News Digital.

The Media Research Center (MRC), a conservative watchdog group, found that Apple News and Google News published zero stories between November of last year and May of this year about the various controversies that muddied Platner's Senate bid, including headlines about his Nazi tattoo and his offensive Reddit posts.

The MRC study said the blackout in coverage began after a poll released in late October suggested Platner was the most formidable Democrat to unseat Maine's incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins and that the blackout ended following The New York Times' May 30 report about Platner's sexting controversy.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maine
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1 posted on 07/13/2026 2:43:04 PM PDT by devane617
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To: devane617

IF this is true, then they did the Nazi, girlfriend beating, porta potty masturbater and the Democrats no favors. At all.

Had the MSM simply reported the truth months ago, it would have allowed the Rat Party plenty of time to get rid of Platner quietly and pick another slob.

Instead the media allowed the story to fester and grow creating a huge cluster bleep for the Rats.

And on behalf on all conservatives - I say Thank You.


2 posted on 07/13/2026 2:50:02 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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To: devane617
The most pernicious power the so-called "news" media holds is the power to not report news.
3 posted on 07/13/2026 2:50:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: devane617

They invent fake stories about Trump and tell the world.

They hide real stories about Democrats.

It’s not really a free press. MSM is just propaganda for one of our political parties.


4 posted on 07/13/2026 2:53:20 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell warned us about Rivers of Blood. Well, I sure hope they're coming. It's the only fix.)
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To: devane617

I am simply shocked over this behavior.

Not.


5 posted on 07/13/2026 2:58:24 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, it is near the end of the day.)
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To: T.B. Yoits
It's an illegal political contribution-in-kind.

Fine them for every penny of it. Charge the executives under the condition that any repeat offense will guarantee prison time.

6 posted on 07/13/2026 3:05:51 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Responsibility2nd; Liz; SunkenCiv
IF this is true, then they did the Nazi, girlfriend beating, porta potty masturbater and the Democrats no favors. At all. Had the MSM simply reported the truth months ago, it would have allowed the Rat Party plenty of time to get rid of Platner quietly and pick another slob.

You're right! Plus 'the press' always makes democrats look like the snotty 'teacher's pet'... NOT A GOOD LOOK. We don't have enough money to pay these idiot 'journalists' to do what they do for us... ROTFLMAO

7 posted on 07/13/2026 3:06:20 PM PDT by GOPJ (Commies build walls to stop citizens from escaping. WE build walls to keep people from breaking in. )
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To: BenLurkin
What does Thomas Jefferson's quote on government and newspapers mean?

8 posted on 07/13/2026 3:13:38 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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To: devane617

Should get fined for illegal campaign contributions.


9 posted on 07/13/2026 3:17:00 PM PDT by for-q-clinton
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To: devane617

Covered up for a commie nazi rapist. AOC was also illegally spending campaign loot on a ketamine shrink. One day story.


10 posted on 07/13/2026 3:17:28 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: BenLurkin

The only surprising is the fact the leftist a-holes at Yahoo are the source for this.


11 posted on 07/13/2026 3:23:03 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: devane617

I won’t use Google but I have iPhone so I do use Safari for web searches. Without fail when I want to search something President Trump, Apple’s AI inserts Biden, Obozo or Clinton and sometimes Bush but never Trump.


12 posted on 07/13/2026 3:50:17 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: devane617
Yup, and that's why I switched to a Linux phone so I that I am no longer funding my own political destruction through the vehicles of left wing Google and left wing Apple.


13 posted on 07/13/2026 4:45:46 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (The U.S. Constitution is not a suicide pact. Progressivism is a suicide pact.)
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To: GOPJ

That’s the probably unintended result, and not for lack of trying. Anyone who thinks the same isn’t true of the Bing news is out they mind.


14 posted on 07/13/2026 4:48:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is just a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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