Trump vows to address Google search allegedly rigging media against him

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• US President Donald Trump vowed to address Google
  allegedly using search results to show “Fake News Media” and
  suppress conservative voices. 
• Citing a figure from blog PJMedia, he said 96%
  of results for the search term “Trump News” were from
  “National Left-Wing Media,” which he called “very
  dangerous.”
• Trump has previously called out Twitter for “shadow
  banning” prominent conservatives, saying the practice was
  “illegal” and his administration would look into it.
• As Google search represents a product from the Alphabet
  Company, a publicly traded company, it’s unclear how the US
  government could address or direct its largely automated
  service to behave differently. 

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US President Donald Trump has vowed to address Google allegedly
using search results to show “Fake News Media” in a bid to
suppress conservative voices in a manner he called “very
dangerous.”

From Trump’s Twitter on Tuesday
morning:

“Google search results for “Trump News” 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. Fake CNN is prominent. Republican/Conservative &
Fair Media is shut out. Illegal? 96% 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!”

Trump has previously called out Twitter for “shadow
banning” prominent conservatives, saying the practice was
“illegal” and his administration would look into it.

Trump’s 96% figure appears to come from a PJMedia blog on Saturday,
which used unscientific methods to estimate that 96% of Trump
news Google search results come from liberal media
outlets.

The US media has long stood accused of a generally liberal
bias by the Republican party, and the most read and viewed US
media platforms — excluding Fox News and the Wall Street Journal
— all consistently rank mildly liberal by independent media
reviewers such as the Columbia Journalism Review. 

As Google search represents a product from the Alphabet
Company, a publicly traded company, it’s unclear how the US
government could address or direct its largely automated service
to behave differently. 

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment
from Business Insider. 

Big tech companies, including Google, will testify before
Congress on September 5 about censorship and election
interference.

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