Here’s your evidence: Trump tweets proof of Google bias
US President Donald Trump tweeted out a twenty-four second video showing how Google promoted Barack Obama’s speeches but not his, after multiple news outlets said his claims of Google bias were “without evidence.”
The short clip posted on Twitter on Wednesday afternoon shows Google’s front page promoting President Barack Obama’s state of the union (SOTU) address every year during Obama’s second term. The last two slides show a blank space on the same page in 2017 and 2018, on the dates of Trump’s SOTU speeches.
A quick check at web.archive.org confirmed that Google’s front page had not promoted Trump’s speeches as it had Obama’s.
The video was pinned atop Trump’s twitter feed and tagged with #StopTheBias, which is now trending across the US. It has been viewed almost 985,000 times within two hours of being posted.
Google contested Trump’s claim, saying that they did promote the president’s speech in 2018, but not the 2017 one because it was “technically not a State of the Union address.”
“On January 30 2018, we highlighted the livestream of President Trump’s State of the Union on the google.com homepage,” a Google spokesperson told BuzzFeed on Wednesday evening.
Google lied
There is no evidence they featured President Trump’s 2018 State of the Union Speech, an independent investigation shows#StopTheBias
The day before, Trump accused Google of rigging search results to favor “Fake News Media” while suppressing conservative voices. “They are controlling what we can & cannot see. This is a very serious situation-will be addressed!”he tweeted.
Trump did not say where he got the information he listed in the tweets, leading multiple news outlets to report he was making accusations against Google “without evidence”:
Without evidence, Trump reiterated claims about Google's search results, saying the company is "taking advantage of a lot of people."
Trump added that Google, Facebook and Twitter are "treading on very, very troubled territory and they have to be careful" cnn.it/2BW5gRu
President Trump claims without evidence that Google is rigging search results against him ti.me/2wpx62o
Last week, the conservative outlet PJ Media published a survey showing that 96 percent of Google searches for news on Trump led to mainstream outlets. Furthermore, the top two search results were CNN and the Washington Post, outlets openly hostile to Trump. The only outlets that could charitably be described as right-leaning within the top 100 results were the Wall Street Journal (3 results) and Fox News (2 results).
Meanwhile, an online petition requesting Congress to outlaw social media platforms banning users for speech protected by the First Amendment has attracted over 23,000 signatures in less than a day.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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