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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: 5, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday August 29 2018, @02:07AM (5 children)
The first page of my search results for "trump news" (the query Trump actually complained about) has some stuff from today as well as some older articles, including Donald Trump Is the First White President [theatlantic.com] and A Theory of Trump Kompromat [newyorker.com]. The "algo" could be promoting these simply because they are popular, due to being controversial and linked to by other sites.
"Donald Trump" includes:
What If Trump Has Been a Russian Asset Since 1987? [nymag.com]
A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump's Personality [theatlantic.com]
and much more recently,
Five times Donald Trump refused to pay tribute to John McCain - video [theguardian.com]
You could call that last one, from just 12 hours ago, "negative", or you could just call it "factual". If a presentation of the facts puts Donald Trump in a bad light, then maybe he's the problem and not the media.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @03:34AM (4 children)
I guess what it boils down to is why should I care if Russia annexes the USA? We trade one group of oligarchs for another group of oligarchs. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Social programs will continue to be gutted. We will never get medicare for all. Wealth disparity will continue to skyrocket. The working class will continue to be fucked over.
In film, there are often Russian women in STEM careers--cosmonauts and scientists mostly--but the Americans only have men for those positions in most films. Maybe if Russia takes over the USA we might finally get some cisfemale programmers. :/
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday August 29 2018, @03:50AM
Russian cisfemale waifu
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday August 29 2018, @01:28PM (2 children)
What do you mean "if" ?
One measurement of when this has happened, or how far along the gradual annexation is progressing is to ask: how significant and on what issues does the US policy work against Russian policy? Is there anything where the US administration does not bow and scrape to Russian leadership?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @02:15PM (1 child)
I remember around the 2012 elections there was some vote at a DNC meeting about amending their position statement or some such to have some pro-israel section. There was a voice vote and the nays clearly were louder and more plentiful than the yays. So the guy at the podium said "well, lets try that again". The results were the same. Then he said "the yays have it" and that was that.
It seemed quite strange to me because I doubt many people cared either way about whatever that issue was.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @02:26PM
Here it is: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/05/news/la-pn-dnc-platform-god-jerusalem-20120905 [latimes.com]