US President Donald Trump has unleashed his fury on global tech giant Google, accusing the search engine of rigging its search results.
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| President Donald Trump has tweeted his accusations about Google |
US President Donald Trump has unleashed his fury on global tech giant Google, accusing the search engine of rigging its search results to show negative stories about him and his administration.
Mr Trump went one step further, and promised that the situation “will be addressed”.
In the first of two tweets he fired off from his phone at 5.30am local time (7.30pm AEST), Trump wrote that almost all of the news stories he saw were “bad” and that “fake” news was prominent.
He also accused Google of being biased against conservative media outlets.
He tweeted: “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?”
In his second tweet, he accused Google of “controlling what we can and cannot see”.
He also suggested that he had somehow analysed the results on a search for the term “Trump News” and found that almost all of the stories that came upwere “left-wing”.
He wrote: “96% of 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!”
Google is yet to comment on Mr Trump’s allegations.
Google’s search results are based on an algorithm which has never been publicly released.
This is the first time Mr Trump has ever claimed Google’s search engine is biased.
It comes after Mr Trump has previously attacked Google, Twitter and Facebook for being “very dishonest media”.
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| Google Headquarters in the US. Picture |
In March, Google announced it would spend more than $A408 million over the next three years to improve its search results following the rise of ‘fake news’.
In July Mr Trump attacked the European Union’s decision to fine Google $US 5.1 billion ($A6.85 billion) for “serious illegal behaviour”.
The European Commission announced the record antitrust fine after an investigation found it had used illegal, anti-competitive behaviour in its smartphone software that had been designed to increase the search giant’s dominance.
“I told you so! The European Union just slapped a Five Billion Dollar fine on one of our great companies, Google. They truly have taken advantage of the U.S., but not for long!” Trump tweeted at the time.
Google has said it would appeal the fine.
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