Last year, u/Roseate discovered that in the month leading up to the 2020 election there was a sudden uptick in searches for the penalties for election fraud in three key states: Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania. I checked the Google Trends page at the time and confirmed that this was true.
I just checked the same page today, and the searches from Arizona and Michigan are now gone:
Unless Google is only displaying some random subset of the full data, it looks like Google has deleted evidence of a premeditated plan to commit election fraud.
Eh, I've always been lukewarm on Google trends, because its not clear how they normalize that data.
I assume 100 means the highest concentration of such searches, but is it linear to 0? Exponential?
That being said, this looks like a clear case of scrubbing...
I'm surprised someone cared enough to hide this. Paranoia, paranoia, everybody coming to get me...