Trump accuses Google of RIGGING search results to only show ‘fake news’ that makes him look ‘bad’ as he threatens to prosecute the tech giant
- Trump has attacked Google for displaying too many negative stories about him
- President accused firm of rigging search results to show ‘almost all bad’ stories
- Trump pledged to ‘address’ the ‘very serious situation’, though it is not clear how
- Google uses a complex algorithm to decide what a user sees in their search results, though its exact workings are a corporate secret
Donald Trump has accused Google of rigging its search results to show only bad news stories about him.
The President unloaded on the tech firm in a pair of tweets on Tuesday morning which promised to ‘address’ the ‘very serious situation’.
Trump wrote: ‘Google search results for “Trump News” shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake New Media.
Donald Trump launched into an attack on Google on Tuesday morning, accusing the web giant of rigging its search results to make him look bad
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!’
Google uses a complex algorithm to decide what results users are presented with, though its exact workings remain a closely guarded corporate secret.
Trump threatened to address what he called ‘a very serious situation’, though it is not clear how he intends to do this
We do know that a user’s search history will affect the results, so it is possible that Trump’s focus on negative stories about himself skewed his search.
It is not the first time that Trump has attacked tech giants including Google, though on that occasion he accused the firms of suppressing bad news about others.
In October 2016, Trump accused Google, Facebook and Twitter of burying the news that Hillary Clinton was being investigated by the FBI over her emails – branding them ‘very dishonest media’.
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