Donald Trump Googled Himself and Didn’t Like What He Saw

The following article by John T. Bennett was posted on the Roll Call website August 28, 2018:

Tech firms have ‘RIGGED’ search results against him, president alleges

President Trump lashed out at technology firms, singling out Google for what he says is biased search results intended to hurt him. Credit: Al Drago, CQ Roll Call file photo

President Donald Trump went after technology firms Tuesday morning, singling out Google by alleging its search settings are biased against him.

He used a pair of morning tweets to, as he often does, paint himself and fellow conservatives as the victims of a liberal conspiracy. In this incarnation of what is a running Trump narrative, he used this search topic to make his point: “Trump News.”

The president wrote that Google’s search is programmed to return “only the viewing/reporting of Fake New Media.” That means, in his view, the tech giant has its search function “RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD.”

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