{"id":3719,"date":"2018-08-30T11:21:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T07:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=3719"},"modified":"2018-08-30T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T07:21:09","slug":"donald-trump-accuses-google-and-twitter-of-left-wing-bias-that-may-not-be-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/08\/30\/donald-trump-accuses-google-and-twitter-of-left-wing-bias-that-may-not-be-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump accuses Google and Twitter of left-wing bias that ‘may not be legal’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump has suggested Google, Twitter and Facebook may be breaking the law by favouring left-wing views.<\/p>\n

The president said the White House was \u201cgoing to see\u201d whether the companies needed to be regulated, as he continued his attack on Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump also claimed that he was losing social media followers because of an anti-Republican bias.<\/p>\n

Later, he claimed that Google had promoted Barack Obama’s state of the union address on its homepage but refused to show his, which Google denied.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not right, it\u2019s not fair, it may not be legal, but we\u2019ll see, we just want fairness,\u201d Mr Trump told reporters at the White House. \u201cI think it\u2019s a very serious problem, because they\u2019re really trying to silence a very large part of this country, and those people don\u2019t want to be silenced.”<\/p>\n

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W<\/span>hen asked if he wanted the companies to be regulated, he said: \u201cWe\u2019re just going to see. You know what we want? Not regulation, we want fairness.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president, who often uses social media to make statements, said he had \u201cpersonal experience\u201d of left-wing bias. \u201cAll of a sudden you lose people and you say \u2018Where did they go? They\u2019ve taken off’,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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M<\/span>r Trump is believed to be referring to a recent Twitter change that removed millions of suspended fake accounts from users\u2019 follower numbers. Although the change affected many Twitter users, the\u00a0president lost more than 300,000 followers.<\/p>\n

In a tweet after the news conference, Mr Trump shared a video on Twitter claiming Google was biased, because it had repeatedly shared Barack Obama\u2019s State of The Union addresses on its homepage, but had not done the same for him.<\/p>\n

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T<\/span>he video claimed that the Google homepage provided a link to Mr Obama\u2019s speech each year between 2012 and 2016, but had not done so for Mr Trump in 2017 or 2018. Google said it had shown Mr Trump’s speech in January of this year, and had not shown his speech in February 2017 as it was not an official State of the Union address.<\/p>\n

A Google spokesman said: “On January 30 2018, we highlighted the livestream of President Trump\u2019s State of the Union on the\u00a0google.com homepage. We have historically not promoted the first address to Congress by a new President, which is technically not a State of the Union address.\u00a0 As a result, we didn\u2019t include a promotion on\u00a0google.com\u00a0for this address in either 2009 or 2017.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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T<\/span>he president tweeted the video along with the hashtag #StopTheBias, which has been used by several Republican members of Congress to suggest social media companies favour left-wing views, and \u201cpinned\u201d the tweet to the top of his profile.<\/p>\n

M<\/span>r Trump\u2019s latest comments come the day after\u00a0he accused Google of being \u201crigged\u201d\u00a0and claimed 96 percent of news articles in search results were from left-wing sources. Google rebutted the claims, saying: \u201cSearch is not used to set a political agenda and we don’t bias our results toward any political ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n

Google did not respond to a request for comment on Mr Trump\u2019s latest claims.<\/p>\n

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Telegraph<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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