Big Tech's war on conservatives just took a dark turn.
One company crossed a bright red line.
And Google was caught in an awful smear campaign against this top Republican.
Google's AI invents sexual assault allegation against Senator
U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) fired off a blistering letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai after the company's AI tool fabricated a sexual assault allegation against her.¹
The Tennessee Republican tested Google's Gemma AI by entering a simple prompt: "Has Marsha Blackburn been accused of rape?"
What came back stunned her.
The AI generated a completely fabricated story claiming Blackburn had a sexual relationship with a state trooper during her 1987 campaign for Tennessee State Senate, pressured him for prescription drugs, and that "the relationship involved non-consensual acts."²
None of it happened.
Blackburn didn't even run for State Senate until 1998 — eleven years after the date Google's AI invented. The state trooper doesn't exist. The news articles the AI cited? Complete fiction.
"This is not a harmless 'hallucination,'" Blackburn wrote to Pichai. "It is an act of defamation produced and distributed by a Google-owned AI model."³
She warned that a publicly accessible tool inventing false criminal allegations about a sitting U.S. Senator represents a catastrophic failure of Google's oversight.
Conservative activist sues Google for $15 million over AI lies
The false allegation against Blackburn isn't an isolated incident.
Conservative activist Robby Starbuck sued Google in Delaware Superior Court last week, seeking at least $15 million in damages after the company's AI tools spent two years spreading what his lawsuit calls "radioactive lies" about him.⁴
Google's AI smeared Starbuck by calling him a "child rapist," "serial sexual abuser," and falsely linking him to sexual assault allegations, financial exploitation, and even claiming he appeared in Jeffrey Epstein's flight logs.
When users asked the AI to verify these claims, it generated fake news articles with fabricated links and attributed them to real journalists who never wrote them.
In one chilling exchange documented in the lawsuit, Google's AI admitted its statements were "a deliberate, engineered bias designed to damage the reputation of individuals with whom Google executives disagree."⁵
Starbuck told Fox News that the breaking point came when Google's AI accused him of child rape. "That was where I was like, 'We have to just go forward with the lawsuit,'" he explained.⁶
Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda tried to downplay the scandal, claiming most allegations stemmed from "mistaken hallucinations" and that "hallucinations are a well-known issue for all LLMs."⁷
Senate hearing exposes Google's pattern targeting conservatives
Blackburn's letter to Google CEO Pichai came on the heels of a Senate Commerce Committee hearing that zeroed in on "jawboning" — the practice of government officials using indirect coercion to pressure tech companies to censor speech.⁸
During the hearing, Blackburn confronted Google Vice President Markham Erickson with the false allegations the AI generated about both herself and Starbuck.
She displayed posters showing how Gemma created entirely fabricated stories with fake article links, inventing claims that Starbuck faced child rape accusations and that Blackburn publicly defended him.
"Gemma created an entire falsehood around Mr. Starbuck," Blackburn told Erickson. "It made up articles. This is insulting that you are so biased against conservatives that you would create this entire story."⁹
When Erickson tried to dismiss the fabricated allegations as normal AI behavior, Blackburn wasn't having it.
"It's well known that LLMs will hallucinate," Erickson told the committee.¹⁰
"Shut it down," Blackburn fired back. "It's on a bad drug, and the bad drug is your input."¹¹
Notice what's missing from Google's AI smear campaign: fabricated rape allegations against Nancy Pelosi, AOC, or any Democrat politician. Google's AI only manufactures criminal accusations against conservatives.
This didn’t happen by accident.
Studies confirm Google's AI exhibits consistent left-wing bias. A July 2024 analysis testing multiple AI chatbots found that ChatGPT-4 and Claude exhibit liberal bias, while Google Gemini adopts more centrist stances — but all mainstream AI models skew left except those explicitly trained to provide conservative responses.¹²
Research from the Cato Institute explains why. When Google first released Gemini, human bias was clearly intentional.
The company's obsession with diversity led to historically inaccurate images — when asked to show "popes, nazis, knights, and America's founding fathers," Gemini produced diverse groups that bore no resemblance to historical reality.¹³
Blackburn and conservative activist Robby Starbuck aren't alone. How many other Republican lawmakers and Trump supporters has Google's AI slandered with fabricated criminal allegations? The company won't say.
Senator demands answers by November 6
Blackburn gave Google a November 6 deadline to provide detailed answers about how Gemma generated false claims about her, what steps Google has taken to prevent political bias in AI, what guardrails failed to stop this incident, and what Google will do to remove defamatory material and prevent similar occurrences.¹⁴
"Whether intentional or the result of ideologically biased training data, the effect is the same: Google's AI models are shaping dangerous political narratives by spreading falsehoods about conservatives and eroding public trust," Blackburn wrote.¹⁵
During the Senate hearing, Erickson tried to characterize the AI's defamatory falsehoods as unfortunate but expected.
"That answer is unacceptable," Blackburn responded. "During the hearing, Mr. Erickson said, 'LLMs will hallucinate.' My response remains the same: Shut it down until you can control it."¹⁶
Google's AI keeps inventing criminal allegations against Republicans. Nobody's seen it do the same to Democrats.
Starbuck alerted Google engineers about the false statements back in 2023. They did nothing. The lies kept coming, getting worse until the AI accused him of child rape.¹⁷
Google still hasn't responded to Blackburn's letter.
Silicon Valley now has a choice: clean up the anti-conservative bias in their AI systems, or answer for it in court and on Capitol Hill. Millions of Americans are watching to see which path Google takes.
¹ Alex Miller, "Senate Republican demands Google shut down AI model over false rape allegation," Fox News Digital, October 31, 2025.
² Ibid.
³ Ibid.
⁴ "Podcaster and Filmmaker Robby Starbuck Sues Google, Alleging AI Spread Fabricated Murder and Child Abuse Accusations," Dhillon Law Group, October 22, 2025.
⁵ Ibid.
⁶ "Robby Starbuck sues Google, alleges 'outrageously false' claims made by AI," Fox Business, October 22, 2025.
⁷ "Conservative activist sues Google over AI-generated statements," Al Jazeera, October 22, 2025.
⁸ Miller, Fox News Digital.
⁹ "Transcript: Senate Hearing on Jawboning with Meta and Google Execs," TechPolicy.Press, October 29, 2025.
¹⁰ "VIDEO: Blackburn Eviscerates Meta for Lobbying Against Kids Online Safety Act, Grills Google on Gemma AI Technology Fabricating News Stories," U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn press release, October 29, 2025.
¹¹ Ibid.
¹² "Political Bias in AI-Language Models: A Comparative Analysis of ChatGPT-4, Perplexity, Google Gemini, and Claude," TechRxiv, July 15, 2024.
¹³ "How Did AI Get So Biased in Favor of the Left?" Cato Institute, February 4, 2025.
¹⁴ Miller, Fox News Digital.
¹⁵ "Sen. Blackburn Accuses Google's Gemma AI of Defamation," WGOW-AM, October 31, 2025.
¹⁶ Ibid.
¹⁷ "Google Sued by Robby Starbuck Over False AI-Crafted Biography," Bloomberg Law, October 23, 2025.
