Furious Trump slams Google for promoting ‘fake news’

DONALD Trump yesterday accused Google of rigging its search results to highlight “fake news” which shows him in a bad light.

The US President pledged to take action against the internet giant which he accused of “illegally” hiding good news about him and silencing his supporters. Mr Trump launched into a furious outburst after apparently not liking the results when he googled himself.

He said search results for “Trump News” showed only the reporting of what he terms “Fake News Media”.

He tweeted: “In other words, they have it rigged for me and others, so that almost all stories and news is bad. Fake CNN is prominent.”

Trump said not only were negative stories promoted, he also accused Google of political bias.

He said: “Google and others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good. They are controlling what we can and cannot see.

“This is a very serious situation – will be addressed!”

Trump’s economic adviser Larry Kudlow said the White House was considering new regulations on Google’s search engine to address his concerns. But in a statement, Google said: “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.”