The Trump administration is "taking a look" at whether Google and its search engine should be regulated by the government, Larry Kudlow, President Trump's economic adviser, said Tuesday outside the White House.
"We'll let you know," Kudlow said. "We're taking a look at it."
The announcement puts the search giant squarely in the White House's crosshairs amid wider allegations against the tech industry that it systematically discriminates against conservatives on social media and other platforms.
Kudlow's remark to reporters came hours after Trump fired off a series of predawn tweets complaining about Google search results for "Trump News."
[...] Google, in a statement, said its searches aren't politically biased: "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. 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," Google said. "We continually work to improve Google Search and we never rank search results to manipulate political sentiment."
The White House has not responded to requests for further comment.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @01:34AM (4 children)
Let's make a deal: enforce "Fair and Balanced" on social media oligopolies, but also with AM radio oligopolies.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 29 2018, @01:43AM
You won't make any friends at NPR with suggestions like those.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Wednesday August 29 2018, @01:44AM (2 children)
Nobody is keeping the left off of AM radio. They have launched several well funded networks with a large footprint. But they can't find anyone willing to listen. Can't force people to listen. And you are forgetting something important anyway. The Left isn't dominant on AM radio because they already have FM with NPR and pretty much every other station on the FM dial (except the few places where the talk station is on FM), which is probably why the new startups fail, they are competing with the government.
(Score: 4, Informative) by captain normal on Wednesday August 29 2018, @02:50AM (1 child)
Just you saying so doesn't make it true.
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/04/04/radio-npr-numbers/ [digitalmusicnews.com]
https://www.npr.org/about-npr/597590072/npr-maintains-highest-ratings-ever [npr.org]
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 29 2018, @03:39AM
Reread your parent above. You misunderstood.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.