President Trump has Google in his sights, tweeting on Tuesday morning that the company's search results for "Trump News" showed results for "only the viewing/reporting of Fake New Media," referencing prominent news outlet CNN.
....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
Raising the stakes: Later in the morning, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said that the administration is "taking a look" at potentially regulating Google.
Google fires back: Google refuted the president's claims that it is biased against conservatives or any other political groups.
"When users type queries into the Google Search bar, our goal is to make sure they receive the most relevant answers in a matter of seconds," a Google spokesperson said in a statement. "Search is not used to set a political agenda and we don't bias our results toward any political ideology".
"Every year, we issue hundreds of improvements to our algorithms to ensure they surface high-quality content in response to users' queries. We continually work to improve Google Search and we never rank search results to manipulate political sentiment," the statement added.
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