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Trump Accuses Google of Burying Conservative News in Search Results

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What's the proof? > Mr. Trump’s criticism appeared to be inspired by a segment last night from Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs. During the program, Mr. Dobbs highlighted an article by a conservative website, PJ Media, that said that it had conducted an unscientific study in which 96 percent of Google search results for the word “Trump” were articles from “left-leaning sites.” Oh boy: an "unscientific study", what…

> Oh boy: an "unscientific study", whatever that is.

Otherwise known as an "anecdote."

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Surely there’s a way to study this and generate some meaningful statistics on whether Google (and others) actually bury conservative stories. Or maybe it’s already been studied, and either supported or rebutted.

This started from an article [1] posted on Drudge Report recently.

[1] - https://pjmedia.com/trending/google-search-results-show-perv...

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Surely there’s a way to study this and generate some meaningful statistics on whether Google (and others) actually bury conservative stories. Or maybe it’s already been studied, and either supported or rebutted.

You can open up a private tab in your browser, go to Google News and do a search for yourself.

Looks like either all search engines are biased (not just Google) or Trump is.

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Yikes this is a complex topic.

There’s a couple of things at play:

Google does control (unbiased or biased) a significant portion of what internet users see

This control has the potential to sway public opinion, direct discourse, and economically make or break businesses (even those that extend beyond media)

Personally I believe gigantic internet companies like Google require more regulation because they can’t be trusted to act responsibly indefinitely.

However I do not believe the current administration has shown thoughtfulness and care for the republic in a way that I would trust them to enact this regulation.

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Try searching for "American inventors" or "American scientists" on Google and tell me if you notice anything odd.

What is your suspicion here?

I think the poster's referring to the overrepresentation of black scientists in that result, implying political motivation. It's pretty clear that it's just an artifact of the collision with the common search term "african american scientists". The result for "united states scientists" more or less proves this to be the case.
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