Trump Accuses Google of Rigging Search Results Against Him

[demmiblue]

Source: Bloomberg

U.S. President Donald Trump accused Alphabet Inc.’s Google of rigging its search results to display only negative stories about him, calling it “a very serious situation” that “will be addressed.”

“Google search results for ‘Trump News’ shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake New Media. In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD, Fake CNN is prominent. Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out. Illegal," Trump tweeted early Tuesday, in his latest claim of bias on the part of a news or social media company.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-28/trump-accuses-google-of-rigging-search-results-against-him?cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-politics&utm_content=politics&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic

[Historic NY]

1. Liar, liar.....liar in chief

[Squinch]

2. Paranoid lunatic. No, donnie. You're every bit as bad as what you are reading.

[StepnKretchit]

3. Trump to Google: YOU'RE FIRED!!!

[bucolic_frolic]

4. My God, this man lives a life of tragedy and persecution - all are against him!!

Where do we find such bullshit artists?

[TomSlick]

65. Just because your paranoid doesn't mean folks aren't out to get you.

As I read the polls, the majority of people in the country are against him. Mind you, it is not without good cause that people have had enough.

Funny how that works. If you run the WH like a bizarre reality TV show, a majority of people won't like it.

[PatSeg]

5. Oh my

So early for my first big laugh of the day. Once again Trump's tweets read more like The Onion, than real life.

Of course, it isn't really funny that a sitting president is unraveling on Twitter at 5:24 in the morning. It is like having Howard Hughes in the White House, minus the brains that it.

[Jarqui]

6. and the meltdown continues ...

Trump is not a well man

[Mr. Sparkle]

7. Trump is a professional victim

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Trump is TRODDEN UPON

trampled, really. Poor little Trumpsky, only the Russians help him

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. Exmp Victimized by blacks excluded from his housing in 80s that Feds twice won orders against him.nt

[rpannier]

43. Yep x 10000000000000000000

[LittleGirl]

8. You know what

FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.

Not the OP, that so called man child at the WH. FUCK HIM SIDEWAYS.
He's just a whiny little bitch.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. This is how they make propaganda permanent

I.e., he is now code-talk requesting to have bots start pounding search engines with fake searches of RW media sources so these will automatically appear at the top of search engine lists. It's just like his exhortations to "find the 33,000 emails".

[demmiblue]

11. Apparently, this is the source for his ramblings:

Link to tweet

[Denzil_DC]

22. Follow-up Tweet from Dale:

Link to tweet

Daniel Dale ✔
@ddale8

Here is the “bias” classification system the PJ Media uses. Among the “left-wing” outlets: the Associated Press, USA Today, Politico, The Hill, Bloomberg, Reuters (to which Trump just gave an interview)...

In other words, this is all very silly. But you knew that.

Much hilarity in the replies.

[Denzil_DC]

24. Oh, and you may notice the source for that graphic is Sharyl Attkisson's website.

If the name seems familiar, it might be because of this story from 2014:

The video of Sharyl Attkisson getting "hacked" actually just shows a stuck delete key

Former CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson has become something of a hero among segments of the right ever since she was pushed out from the network this spring over concerns that her reporting had taken an anti-Obama bias. In the view of Attkisson and her supporters, CBS had silenced her for telling the truth on Benghazi and other scandals. (She also drew heat for reporting a link between vaccines and autism, an idea that has been widely debunked.)

On Tuesday, Attkisson will publish her book, Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington. It reiterates her criticisms of the Obama administration and alleges a campaign to silence such dissent.

The book is in the news this week because it details what Attkisson describes as hacking attacks on her computer. She presents the evidence in such a way as to strongly imply that the Obama administration ordered her computer hacked as retribution for her critical reporting. On Friday, Attkisson released a video of the central allegation in her book. But it turns out that what the video actually appears to show is not sophisticated US government hacking, but a stuck delete key, and a former reporter with breathtakingly poor computer literacy.

...

"From what we looked at and what we were able to replicate, from that piece of video we don't see what we would call evidence of hacking," Brad Moore, an employee with the Ohio-based firm Interhack Corp, told Media Matters. "There are multiple explanations and we were able to demonstrate quickly and easily one possibil[ity], the backspace key."

https://www.vox.com/2014/10/31/7140247/the-right-is-convinced-obama-hacked-sharyl-attkisson-over-benghazi

She also claims "the left" invented fake news.

[C_U_L8R]

33. False equivalence

most of the 'brands' on the right are just websites running agitprop and conspiracy theories out of someone's mom's basement.

almost all the ones on the left are massive global multichannel media organizations... with verified audiences as well as facts.

the two sides are not the same.... not at all. Fuck no.
flip it on its side and it would be more factual.

[NewJeffCT]

41. I would also question

how they classified the political leanings of the organizations as well - Stars & Stripes and Military Times in the middle? Real Clear Politics? LOL

Fortune, Bloomberg? CBS? NBC? ABC? Left? Yahoo? ESPN? Hardly.

[KelleyKramer]

12. My God. The Onion is officially dead!

This can't be real... it's not from an SNL skit?

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. He's out of his tree.

[James48]

14. Strawberries.

“Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action.”- Captain Quege

[smb]

38. AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!

[htuttle]

15. Old man stands on corner, shouts at sky

?fb

[hibbing]

26. Sir, this is a Wendy's drive thru

[htuttle]

45. bwahahahaha!

I remember that tweet...

[watoos]

16. "will be addressed"

is a direct threat by the president to Google that there will consequences if it reports negatively on him.

Please, everyone vote, Republicans are complicit, and the timid M$M will toe the line. It is up to we the people to save our democracy. It needs to be done this election or else all will be lost, with gerrymandered districts, rigged voting machines, voter roll purges, voter suppression, Russian interference to elect Republicans. It is a scary thought what America is headed for; "A Brave New World." Huxley.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Put it to voters this way: Republicons CREATED Trump, ENABLE him & PROTECT him. Keep brands welded.

[DinahMoeHum]

17. Yeesh, what a fucking CRYBABY.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. "very serious situation - will be addressed" means MiniTruth (Orwell), fascism, authoritarianism .nt

[C_U_L8R]

20. So... is he going to make Fox News

Lead with Liberal news every other day?.

[floWteiuQ]

23. I keep saying...

The drumpf will set the record for being the first ex-US president to go to jail! Truly, a first and about time!

[TNNurse]

25. Well, if he would ever do anything well and decent and in the best interest of

the country and the people, they would report it.

[oberliner]

27. He is getting this from a PJ Media story

"96 Percent of Google Search Results for 'Trump' News Are from Liberal Media Outlets" is their headline. Don't want to link to that RW site, but Google it if interested (I promise it will come up in the results!)

Edit to add: Someone else made note of this as well upthread.

Remember, everything Trump tweets he gets from Fox & Friends or some RW crazy.

[GusBob]

62. I think he got it from Lou Dobbs on Fox

who got it from PJ Media

[oberliner]

63. That sounds about right

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

28. He does understand everyone will now search that?

Wtf is wrong with me of course he doesn't understand.

[Snellius]

29. His mental breakdown is like a slomo of watching a building collapse.

Fascinating and horrifying at the same time.

[greymattermom]

44. So his breakdown

is like the endlessly repeated videos of the twin towers collapsing. Yep, I get that.

[Snellius]

48. Exactly. Just worried it will go on until finally something happens as catastrophic as that.

His insanity is so obvious. Everyone sees it daily. Has everyone gotten used to it? When is enough enough? What does he have to do before non compos mentis? Declaring war on Canada? Babbling incoherently on live TV? The emperor has no clothes (that's a cringy thought).

[nature-lover]

30. Maybe if he searched "Trump Tantrums" he would get more results.

It is difficult to create a story that is newsworthy from what comes out of the WH. No accomplishments, all hype.

[TheBlackAdder]

31. Let's start a new tin-foil hat conspiracy: Google has CIA roots and they seek Deep State revenge.

[Angry Dragon]

32. paranoid

[Bengus81]

34. Gosh....now everything on GOOGLE is FAKE?!?!? Guess that just leaves FOX for the truth eh Trump??

[world wide wally]

35. Lock him up...

In a padded room

[gordianot]

36. He really said this?

Someone close to him should introduce the concept of spitting against the wind in a Hurricane.

[sinkingfeeling]

37. Funny, sometimes everything on the first results page is nothing

but one RW story echoed by every RW site.

[amcgrath]

39. Firstly,

I don't believe that Google is doing this.

Secondly, Republicans worked very hard to take away Net Neutrality, precisely so search engine companies are allowed to skew results anyway they like.

[workinclasszero]

40. Trump is a lunatic who insists that the whole world

bows down and worships him.

Google has sinned against Dear Leader by letting the truth about the tin god be accessed by the American people and so must be punished.

Adolf Trump demands that all news/info orgs bow down to his greatness like the worms at Fox noise and hate mongers on radio like Hannity.

[Iggo]

42. Straight up propaganda for the Truth Isn't Truth Brigade. (n/t)

[riversedge]

46. Wonder if Trump types in 'GREAT stories about a GREAT President Trump'???

[lsewpershad]

47. Who is he

going to blame next?...Jack Rabbit?

[Snellius]

49. And how will he "address" it? Sick the G-men on them? Tweet more angry tweets?

Has anyone told the gangster he has no gang? Guess he'll have to do it by himself.

[mahina]

50. Pua ting.

[vlyons]

51. This means that he's using Google to search "Trump news"

The idiot probably doesn't know that there are numerous search engines. All free. He also probably doesn't understand, much less respect, the rights of free speech. Fucking stupid Fascist! Nov election can't get here too soon. If he thinks the fake news is bad now, just wait until the Dems win the House and start hold 20 investigations into the Trump criminal RICO activities.

[AllyCat]

52. You have a country to lead you creep!

You do not have time to worry about popularity contests. The fact that you follow stupid stuff like this tells the rest of he world that we have no one driving the clown car. You endanger the whole world with your pettiness and your lack of leadership.

[Firestorm49]

53. I guess poor little King Don can't handle it.

It also shows how much more of a man Obama was, having endured eight years of hatred and slander from Republicans, Hannity, Lindbaugh (loser), Breitbart, Alex Jones, and do I need to go on? Obama withstood the onslaught with a word call dignity. What’s his name is too grossly immature to be able to deal with anything that touches on his fragile childlike ego.
Freedom of the press means exactly what it says, and if the total moron occupying the Oval Office can’t take it, maybe he should just QUIT!

[truthisfreedom]

54. "No quarter pounders at the grocery store! Illegal!"

[demmiblue]

55. Google's response:

Link to tweet

[Backwoodsrider]

56. Prez stole this mornings headlines, again.

Narcissist n chief is whats on today

[EarthFirst]

57. The fuck is he talking about?

If you search “Idiot” Trump is literally HUNDREDS of results!

[SunSeeker]

58. Reality is rigged against him.

Trump again attacks facts.

[demmiblue]

59. WTF?! He deleted the tweets, then posted more:

Link to tweet

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

60. Google "Trump good news" and there's plenty of the kind of news he eats up.

What he hates is that when you Google "Trump news" you get bombarded with facts, and we all know how he feels about those.

[truthisfreedom]

61. 45 accuses reality of rigging facts against him

[0rganism]

64. Snowflake King says what?

it would take a radical reassessment of the 1st amendment to make Snowflake King's fascist dream a reality. i guess that's what SCOTUS nominee Kavanaugh brings to the table.