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Trump administration is looking into imposing regulations on Google searches, White House chief economic advisor Larry Kudlow said on Tuesday. According to the advisor, President Trump has complained about the search term ‘Rigged‘ on Google and he is not happy with Google for showing negative news stories about him.
President Trump tweeted on Tuesday saying that the internet search engine giant is “hiding information and news that is good,”. Mr.President wrote:
Google search results for “Trump News” shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake New 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
When asked by the reporters if White House is going to request a bill about Google’s regulations, Kudlow, Director of the National Economic Council told that “We’re taking a look at it.”
In a response to the statement, Google told CBS news:
“Search is not used to set a political agenda and we don’t bias our results toward any political ideology …. we never rank search results to manipulate political sentiment.”
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President Trump spoke about the control of Google search results saying:
They are controlling what we can & cannot see. This is a very serious situation-will be addressed!
Results on “Trump News” are from National Left-Wing Media, very dangerous. Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good. They are controlling what we can & cannot see. This is a very serious situation-will be addressed!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 28, 2018
Earlier in the year, President Trump has also voiced his opinion about the social media patrolling saying that Social Media Giants are silencing millions of people.
