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. 

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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