President Donald Trump ripped Google for allegedly suppressing conservative news outlets in its search algorithms with a series of Tuesday tweets.
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
….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
Trump appears to have learned of the report after watching a recorded version of Fox Business Network’s Lou Dobb’s report from the previous evening.
Good morning. The president was up before dawn this morning watching and tweeting about last night’s episode of Fox’s Lou Dobbs Tonight.
Left, Dobbs, 7:30 pm
Right, Trump, 5:24 am pic.twitter.com/7eArOEwChe— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) August 28, 2018
Dobbs, in term, learned of the report from PJMedia, which “performed a Google search for ‘Trump’ using the search engine’s ‘News’ tab and analyzed the results using Sharyl Attkisson’s media bias chart,” finding that “not a single right-leaning site appeared on the first page of search results.”
PJMedia broke the results down further finding “CNN, by a wide margin, appeared most frequently, with nearly twice as many results returned as the second-place finisher, The Washington Post. Other left-leaning outlets also fared well, including NBC, CNBC, The Atlantic, and Politico. The only right-leaning sites to appear in the top 100 were The Wall Street Journal and Fox News with 3 and 2 results respectively.”
Dobbs’ take was that Google is “banning” and “suppressing” conservative news sites from appearing in their results. His source is a piece from PJ Media that sorted results based on “Sharyl Attkisson’s media bias chart,” which lists the Washington Post & the NY Times as far left. pic.twitter.com/c9WTCbj5QQ
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) August 28, 2018