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Donald Trump Tweets Google Search Results for Trump News Shows Only the Viewing/Reporting of Fake New Media.
Riiiight.
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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 08: U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he departs the White House June 8, 2018 in Washington, DC. Trump is traveling to Canada to attend the G7 summit before heading to Singapore on Saturday for a planned U.S.-North Korea summit. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Early Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump jumped on Twitter to whine that when he Googled Trump news only the Fake New [sic] Media appeared in the results. The president suggested Google was rigging the internet and shutting out right-leaning news sites. Specifically, Trump claimed that 96 percent of results on Trump News are from National Left-Wing Media, very dangerous.
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
Trump accused Google of suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good. Google is controlling what we can & cannot see, the president asserted. 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
At first glance, these tweets appear to be another example of Trump deriding news he doesnt like as fake. But he didnt pull the 96 percent statistic out of thin air. The Toronto Stars Daniel Dale found that Trump was citing a right-wing opinion site, PJ Media, which since Saturday has been yammering about actual news showing up when people search Google for news.
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Trumps 96% complaint about Google is from an article by right-wing PJ Media that has been making the rounds online in the last day. It complains that the News tab for Trump brings up...news sites...rather than right-wing opinion sites...like PJ Media. https://pjmedia.com/trending/google-search-results-show-pervasive-anti-trump-anti-conservative-bias/
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Michelle Brooks @MyCharlestonPad
Who ever imagined that a US president would be having a hissy because msm is showing up on google before propaganda websites.
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https://secondnexus.com/news/donald-trump/donald-trump-google-rigged-conservatives/?utm_content=inf_677_1164_1&utm_souce=Twitter&utm_medium=GTAK&tse_id=INF_c27367b0aad111e8872dc93302272904
Cirque du So-What
(25,994 posts)for the imaginary "news service' he fantasizes about overseeing after he gets booted from office.
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(113,600 posts)Thomas Hurt
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(113,600 posts)Caliman73
(11,744 posts)Whenever there is some stupid meme about Hillary or another Democratic Party person, I try to fact check and the first place I go to is Google.
When I type in search terms to try to get credible media, I always get a bunch of right wing results like the Daily Caller, NewMax, etc....
Fake right wing bullshit. That is how they try to shift the debate. They think that if their propaganda doesn't come out on top of anything else that they are being suppressed. The reality is when you type in News, then REAL news organization like the AP, ABC, CBS, NBC, The New York Times, Washington Post, and others who while sometimes having major problems, have built a reputation on actual reporting and not on propaganda.