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So Now Google Promotes Fake News?
President Donald Trump accused Google of rigging its search engine results to feature overwhelmingly negative coverage of him and “others.”
The “Fake New Media,” according to Trump’s early Tuesday tweets, makes up “96 percent” of the news displayed in Google’s search for “Trump News.” He accused the search engine of not including Republican, Conservative and “Fair” media, a practice he dubbed illegal.
He threatened that the situation “will be addressed.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is promising to address what he says is the "very serious situation" of social media companies "suppressing" conservative voices and "hiding information" and good news.
Trump has made similar complaints recently, but he targeted Google on Tuesday. Trump said in a pre-dawn tweet that included a typo that a search for "Trump News" on Google "shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake New Media. In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD."
He adds, "Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out. Illegal?"
Trump also claimed without evidence that 96 percent of the "Trump News" search results are from "National Left-Wing Media."
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Re: So Now Google Promotes Fake News?
Trump also claimed without evidence that 96 percent of the "Trump News" search results are from "National Left-Wing Media."
Well, if you are a Trumper, and consider every outlet besides Fox and Breitbart to be Left wing Media, I guess this would be true!
Seriously, if you, like the author of the 'Study' Trump refers to, define almost all major national news outlets in the US as on the left, ( ABC News, USA Today, CBS, the Associated Press, CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time, Politico) ,,,,,,,,
and your list of organizations on the right is mostly populated by small outlets and conspiracy sites that do little original reporting (InfoWars, Legalinsurrection and The New American)
,,,,,,,, well most results of a Google News Search would return 'Left Wing Media'.
You've loaded the dice.
Last edited by Goose (8/28/2018 2:17 pm)
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: So Now Google Promotes Fake News?
Translation = We like the 1st Amendment, till we don't. 
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
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Re: So Now Google Promotes Fake News?
If Trump is concerned about negative treatment by news media, wait until he gets a look at history books!
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.