{"id":375415,"date":"2018-08-30T01:13:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T00:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/accused-by-trump-of-rigging-search-results-google-denies-political-bias\/"},"modified":"2018-08-30T01:13:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T00:13:39","slug":"accused-by-trump-of-rigging-search-results-google-denies-political-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/accused-by-trump-of-rigging-search-results-google-denies-political-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Accused by Trump of rigging search results, Google denies political bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Accused by Trump of rigging search results, Google denies political bias<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Andre Damon<br \/>\n    <br \/>29 August 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump accused technology monopolist Google of manipulating search results to suppress right-wing news sources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoogle search results for \u2018Trump News\u2019 shows only the viewing\/reporting of Fake News Media,\u201d Trump wrote in a Twitter post. \u201cIn other words, they have it RIGGED, for me &amp; others, so that almost all stories &amp; news is BAD. Fake CNN is prominent.\u201d Trump added, \u201cGoogle &amp; others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good. They are controlling what we can &amp; cannot see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, Trump told reporters that by engaging in censorship, Facebook, Google and Twitter \u201care really treading on very, very troubled territory and they have to be careful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump was reacting to actions by the Internet giants to promote publications aligned with his opponents in the ruling class, like CNN, the <em>New York Times<\/em> and the <em>Washington Post.<\/em> Facebook and Twitter have also taken action in recent weeks against the fascistic social media personality Alex Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to Trump\u2019s claims, however, the main target of the censorship measures adopted by the Internet companies is not right-wing, but rather left-wing, socialist and anti-war publications. In August 2017, the <em>World Socialist Web Site<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/08\/02\/pers-a02.html\">revealed<\/a> that changes to Google\u2019s search algorithm announced in April sharply reduced search traffic to left-wing sites, with search traffic to the <em>World Socialist Web Site<\/em> falling by 75 percent.<\/p>\n<p>On August 25, 2017, the <em>World Socialist Web Site<\/em> published an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/08\/25\/pers-a25.html\">open letter<\/a> to Google demanding that the company stop its censorship of the internet. Google never replied to the letter.<\/p>\n<p>In response to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/08\/29\/cens-a29.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Accused by Trump of rigging search results, Google denies political bias By Andre Damon 29 August 2018 On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump accused technology monopolist Google of manipulating search results to suppress right-wing news sources. \u201cGoogle search results for \u2018Trump News\u2019 shows only the viewing\/reporting of Fake News Media,\u201d Trump wrote in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-375415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}