US President Donald Trump has accused Google's search engine of promoting negative news articles and hiding "fair media" coverage of him, vowing to address the situation without providing evidence or giving details of what action he might take.
Trump's attack against the tech giant follows a string of grievances against internet companies, including Twitter and Facebook, which he has accused of silencing conservative voices.
He has also previously hit out at Amazon, which he says hurts small businesses and benefits from a favourable deal with the US Postal Service.
Trump said in several tweets today that Google search results for "Trump News" were "rigged" against him.
Google search results for “Trump News” shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake News 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....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 28, 2018
Google denied any political bias, saying in a statement that its search engine is "not used to set a political agenda and they don't bias their results toward any political ideology".
Facebook declined to comment. Twitter did not comment when asked for a response. In congressional testimony, both companies have denied engaging in partisan censorship.
[Source : Reuters]
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