• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    Trump responded by sighing and ranting about Virginia’s voter rolls. “The question is about Google, President Trump,” Micklethwait replied. Trump then went on a spiel about how Google is unfair to him and doesn’t show users any positive stories about him.

    There are no positive articles about him that aren’t from horribly biased sources.

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      A journalist had to answer a question from the public on the subject in a Canadian special on US elections and his answer was “Look, I’m a journalist, I report facts and if you believe I’m biased because all the news coming from the republican side are bad news I would tell you I’m not the one who chose the candidate that generates these bad news, my job is just to report them, nothing else.”

    • One time Google’s snippet for Republican described Nazis. This enraged the Republicans and Google manually changed it. But it was auto generated from stuff the GOP was really saying, and still are.