Trump Claims Google Search Is Biased Against Him, Conservatives
Google Search is suppressing conservative sources of information and favoring negative news about the administration, President Donald Trump said in a series of tweets Tuesday. “[T]hey have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news…
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is BAD. Fake CNN is prominent. Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out. Illegal?” Google denied Trump’s assertion. “Search is not used to set a political agenda and we don't bias our results toward any political ideology,” a spokesperson emailed. “Every year, we issue hundreds of improvements to our algorithms to ensure they surface high-quality content in response to users' queries. We continually work to improve Google Search and we never rank search results to manipulate political sentiment.”