Donald Trump has accused search-engine giant Google of suppressing bad news about Hillary Clinton — and there's an odd bit of truth to it.

At a rally in Wisconsin, the GOP presidential candidate said: "The Google poll has us leading Hillary by 2 points nationwide. And that's despite the fact that Google's search engine was suppressing the bad news about Hillary Clinton, how about that?"

Google denies the charge.

But as The Independent reports, Google "does indeed hide negative results" in its autocomplete suggestions.

"Numerous people have pointed out that while typing something into the search, Ms. Clinton's name seems to mostly have positive suggestions even when more natural, negative ones might be expected," The Independent's Harry Cockburn writes.

"Writing 'Hillary Clinton crim', for instance, might be expected to bring up a suggestion that someone searches for crimes. And typing her name next to 'indic' might be expected to bring up indictment. But neither of those actually does happen."

But Trump gets the same results — searching for negatives actually brings up positives about him.

Cockburn explains that Google "intentionally" stops its algorithm from suggesting negatives next to a name, presumably "to ensure that disparaging things are left out, avoiding needless negativity and potential PR and legal problems."