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Donald Trumphas been doing some Google searching, and he’s not happy with the results.
The president, 72, floated his latest complaint about the “Fake News Media” on Twitter Tuesday, claiming the largest search engine in the world has been doctoring its results to only show unfavorable news about him.
“Google search results for ‘Trump News’ shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake News Media. In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD,” Trump wrote.
“Fake CNN is prominent. Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out,” Trump said, asking if the practice was “illegal.”
He continued: “96 percent of results on ‘Trump News’ are from National Left-Wing Media, very dangerous. Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good. They are controlling what we can & cannot see. This is a very serious situation-will be addressed!”
Writer Paula Bolyard said she made that assessment after typing “Trump News” into the Google “News” tab across multiple computers, and then analyzing the top results againstconservative journalist Sharyl Attkisson’s media bias chart.
Fox Business Network’sLou Dobbs Tonightcovered the pieceon Monday night’s show, asMedia Matters for America’s senior fellow Matthew Gertzfirst noted. The president tweeted about the Google search results for his name on Tuesday morning at 5:24 a.m., later deleting the tweets and then re-sending them around 11 a.m.
The Washington Postnoted that, according to other outlets such asGizmodo, the top news result listed under a Google search for “Trump News” on Tuesday morning was from Fox News.
Google has long kept the specifics of the algorithm of its search engine under wraps.
According to the company,a typical query nets millions of webpages with potentially relevant information. To sort them, the company uses around 200 ever-changing factors — analyzing a user’s words, matching their search, ranking useful pages, and considering context before returning the best results.
This isn’t the first time Trump has taken on the tech industry.
This month alone, the formerCelebrity Apprenticehost claimed social-media sites were “silencing millions of people” and “totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices.”
“People have to figure out what is real, and what is not, without censorship!” he wrote. “Too many voices are being destroyed, some good & some bad, and that cannot be allowed to happen. Who is making the choices, because I can already tell you that too many mistakes are being made. Let everybody participate, good & bad, and we will all just have to figure it out!”
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Meanwhile, policy makers in Washington are currently investigating a number of Google’s practices, specifically the company’s handling of user privacy,The Wall Street Journalreported.
source: people.com
