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Trump Accuses Google of Rigging Search Results To Favor 'Bad' News About Him (cnet.com)
President Donald Trump says Google search results for "Trump News" show only negative coverage about him. From a report: The results present "only the viewing/reporting of Fake New (sic) Media," the president tweeted early Tuesday. He said it's a "very serious situation" that "will be addressed!" "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 ... " he wrote in the first of two tweets at 5:24 a.m. ET. Update: White House probes Google after Trump accuses it of bias.
Even the most fanatical sjw liberal can see that the liberal media HATES Donald Trump. So much so that they'll go out of their way to make him look bad (HuffPo, Vox, i'm looking at you) and bury anything good that happens - and of course Trump isn't exactly doing himself any favors in this department. Since the liberal media outnumbers everyone else, it would make perfect sense that the search results reflect this.
Normally I'm inclined to agree. However, after the revelation of all the whitehouse meetings disclosed by the Google transparency project, it definitely sounds more like coordinated thought control using ideas like 'group think' to control opinion.
A detailed examination of White House visitor logs reveals the extraordinary access to the Obama White House enjoyed by Google, its top executives and employees. Since President Obama took office in January 2009 through October 31, 2015, employees of Google and associated entities visited the White House 427 times.
That includes:
363 meetings between White House officials and Google employees.
64 meetings involving employees of companies solely owned by Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt.
The meetings were attended by at least 169 Google executives, from the company’s senior ranks down to software engineers, and 182 White House officials.
Interesting that software engineers are in attendance. Im sure everyone brings software engineers with them to meetings top executives have with major world celebrities and organizations, whose meetings are only discussing broad topics like where is the internet headed.
you can read the full report here https://googletransparencyproj...
When you compare it to other tech companies, telecom companies like ATT etc, all of them combined do not have this many visits. In fact the only other tech company with a disproportionate amount of WH visits during this time is Facebook. Interesting that software engineers are in attendance. I'm sure its not because the former POTUS was trying to use Google to track down the last of his missing Pokemon cards. Conspiracy's are not usually simple, but the motives generally _are_. Power and Greed are always the strongest motivators.
the conspiracies about Google (which is also Google+ as well as YouTube) and Facebook spying on the public for the government, and imposing their own, guided, form of GroupThink predate Trump by many years. In fact some of the naysayer's here argued quite the opposite back then, before it was used for something they don't seem to mind.