How does Google Search direct people to information about their elected offcials? To answer this, we conducted daily searches for members of the US House of Representatives from all 435 US congressional districts and DC between September 1 and December 31, 2020, resulting in 20.1 million search engine results pages (SERPs) and 302 million search results. We find that these search results are dominated by a small number of mainstream sources (eg. Twitter, Wikipedia), with the top seven domains ac

Searching for Elected Officials: Google’s Prioritization of Political Information
David Lazer
