Democratic 2020 Presidential candidate Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has criticized the power of big tech and how much influence it has over online discourse.
Speaking to Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report, Gabbard recounted her lawsuit against tech giant Google. In July, Gabbard announced a lawsuit against Google for banning her advertising account after the first presidential debate, preventing her from capitalizing on the fact that she was the number one candidate to trend during the debate.
Above all of the candidates, Gabbard was number one in Google Trends during the debate, but her campaign couldn’t capture that audience as she couldn’t use her account. Her campaign also couldn’t speak to anyone from Google to reinstate it. Gabbard called this election interference as not allowing a fair playing field to all candidates could alter the outcome of the primaries. Speaking to Rubin, Gabbard said that, even as of this date, she’s not had a clear answer from Google about why they suspended her account when it mattered most.
“We filed this lawsuit, not just because of what happened there”, she told Rubin, “but because of the kind of power that Google has, as this huge tech monopoly, to interfere in our public discourse."
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