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US: Trump White House “taking a look” at regulating Google

By  |  August 28, 2018

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Tuesday, August 28, that the Trump administration is “taking a look” at imposing regulations on Google following the president’s tweet Tuesday morning accusing the search giant of favoring news outlets critical of him in search results.

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    Trump tweeted early Tuesday morning that Google’s search results only show reporting from what he labeled the “fake news media.”

    “They have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Fake CNN is prominent. Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out.”

    Google, in a statement, stated its searches aren’t politically biased, “When users type queries into the Google Search bar, our goal is to make sure they receive the most relevant answers in a matter of seconds. Search is not used to set a political agenda and we don’t bias our results toward any political ideology.

    “Every year, we issue hundreds of improvements to our algorithms to ensure they surface high-quality content in response to users’ queries,” Google continued. “We continually work to improve Google Search and we never rank search results to manipulate political sentiment.”

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