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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: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Wednesday August 29 2018, @01:35PM (7 children)
Showing pictures of destruction following a natural event is true news. Showing idyllic islands would be Fake News.
Sometimes there are happy news stories. Someone does something heroic or inspiring. A war or conflict ends. A peace agreement or trade agreement is reached. Some criminal is convicted and the board of directors needs to replace him with a new one.
The fact is that most news is bad news. Also "news" is what people are interested in. Bad news is important because people want to see justice done. They want to feel apprised of what natural dangers exist and where. They want to know how to avoid bad things. They want to feel safe or understand how to protect themselves. They want to understand bad laws or law enforcement. They want to understand what areas might not be such a good place to live. News that informs about these things is perfectly legitimate.
If the president acts like a total jackass, it is real news. It is highly exceptional and unusual and extremely newsworthy. It is not something to be covered up.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday August 29 2018, @02:21PM (3 children)
That is not correct. There is nothing 'fake' about showing what something looks like in normal times, however it is not very exciting to look at. Fake news is untrue, whereas showing something as it really is just about a truthful as you can get.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @02:34PM (1 child)
The way fake news works is to selectively show you true stuff. The blatantly made up stuff is just lies/fraud. I guess you could call that low quality fake news...
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday August 29 2018, @02:55PM
I don't disagree - but things that are facts are not fake anything. It is the bits between the facts that make it fake news, not the factual bits which are true.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday August 29 2018, @04:39PM
Showing idyllic islands would be Fake News instead of showing the destruction following a hurricane, for example. Perhaps I wasn't clear.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by MindEscapes on Wednesday August 29 2018, @02:37PM (2 children)
Well, it is only news if it is actually different from norm. THIS president has been behaving like a total jackass for awhile now. It really is no longer news.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday August 29 2018, @04:40PM
Each time the bar is lowered it is news.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @07:24PM
> THIS president has been behaving like a total jackass for awhile now. It really is no longer news.
Wouldn't it be great if the big news outlets stopped covering the total jackass, just move along, nothing to see here?
The orange one would be furious!