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Google rejects Trump claim of political ‘bias’ in search
Google on Tuesday strongly denied US President Donald Trump ’ s claim that its news search results were skewed to suppress conservative voices and positive stories about his administration .“ Search is not used to set a political agenda and we don’ t bias our results toward any political ideology , ” a Google spokesperson said in an email after Trump ’ s attack on the internet giant .
“ Every year , we issue hundreds of improvements to our algorithms to ensure they surface high – quality content in response to users’ queries . We continually work to improve Google search and we never rank search results to manipulate political sentiment . ”
Earlier , Trump said on Twitter : “ Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good . They are controlling what we can & cannot see . This is a very serious situation – will be addressed !”
( AFP )
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