Trump lashes out at Google: all the news about the president’s intensifying feud with Silicon Valley – The Verge The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts. 2018-09-25T01:10:13+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/rss/stream/17562387 https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/verge-rss-large_80b47e.png?w=150&h=150&crop=1 Nick Statt <![CDATA[Google CEO Sundar Pichai is headed to Washington this week to discuss censorship and China]]> https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/24/17898930/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-meet-with-washington-gop-china 2018-09-24T21:10:13-04:00 2018-09-24T21:10:13-04:00

Google CEO Sundar Pichai will be present at a private meeting with top Republican lawmakers this Friday to discuss the company's controversial plans to relaunch a search product in China and perceived liberal bias of search results, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

Last month, President Donald Trump kicked off a largely unfounded controversy, based on a misleading Fox News report, over censorship of conservative viewpoints in Google Search. Republicans have since latched onto the theory as a way to increase pressure on Silicon Valley over its largely liberal workforce and what are perceived to be actions taken exclusively …

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]]> Nick Statt <![CDATA[Trump says Amazon, Facebook, and Google represent a ‘very antitrust situation’]]> https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/30/17802566/president-donald-trump-amazon-facebook-google-antitrust-silicon-valley-liberal-bias 2018-08-30T20:43:20-04:00 2018-08-30T20:43:20-04:00

President Donald Trump continued his war of words against technology companies for a third day in a row, this time telling Bloomberg News in an Oval Office interview this afternoon that he sees the power and influence of companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google as a "very antitrust situation." Trump began his heightened criticism of Silicon Valley starting on Tuesday by criticizing Google for alleged skewing of search results in favor of left-wing media organizations, after watching a related Fox News segment that cited deeply flawed study results.

"I won't comment on the breaking up, of whether it's that or Amazon or Facebook," Trump s …

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]]> Adi Robertson <![CDATA[Sen. Orrin Hatch is telling the FTC to investigate Google after Trump’s ‘bias’ attacks]]> https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/30/17800738/senator-orrin-hatch-ftc-investigate-google-search-trump-bias 2018-08-30T14:36:45-04:00 2018-08-30T14:36:45-04:00

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate potential anti-competitive effects in Google's search and digital advertising practices shortly after President Donald Trump made several unfounded or false claims about anti-conservative bias on Google search.

Hatch sent FTC chairman Joseph Simons a letter today in which he expressed concern about "recent reports on Google's search and digital advertising practices." Hatch's letter cites a variety of "disquieting" reports. He mentions a May 60 Minutes segment that highlighted Google's massive size and power over other web companies, as well as a July controversy …

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]]> Nick Statt <![CDATA[Trump’s latest misleading attack on Google, explained]]> https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/29/17798118/president-donald-trump-google-state-of-the-union-address-liberal-bias 2018-08-29T19:01:02-04:00 2018-08-29T19:01:02-04:00

President Donald Trump intensified his criticism of Google today, posting a native video of unknown origin to his Twitter account this afternoon claiming the search giant stopped promoting the State of the Union (SOTU) address on its homepage after he took office. It turns out the video he posted is not only misleading, but also contains what appears to be a fake or misleading screenshot of the Google homepage on the day in question. The video has since been viewed more than 3.5 million times.

As Gizmodo notes, however, whoever made the video could have simply pulled a screenshot of the Google homepage for that date from the Wayback Machine …

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]]> Adi Robertson <![CDATA[Trump claims he’s losing social media followers because of Google, Facebook, and Twitter censorship]]> https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/29/17797400/trump-google-facebook-twitter-censorship-lost-social-media-followers 2018-08-29T16:33:25-04:00 2018-08-29T16:33:25-04:00

This afternoon, President Donald Trump once again accused Google, Facebook, and Twitter of vaguely defined censorship that "may not be legal," but said "we're just going to see" whether the platforms should be regulated. The president was responding to a reporter's question about a series of tweets from yesterday, where Trump called Google search results "rigged" against him. As evidence of platform bias, Trump broadly cited cases where he had lost followers on social media accounts, saying, "I can tell you when things are different."

Trump said yesterday that Google was "taking advantage of a lot of people," and that Google, Facebook, and …

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]]> Adi Robertson <![CDATA[Trump keeps threatening tech companies, but he’s terrible at following through]]> https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/29/17791292/trump-tech-companies-threat-google-twitter-facebook 2018-08-29T12:45:26-04:00 2018-08-29T12:45:26-04:00

Yesterday, President Donald Trump tweeted that Google search was artificially promoting "left-wing media" writing negative stories about him. Trump promised that the situation "will be addressed," and his economic adviser Larry Kudlow said the White House was "taking a look" at whether Google needs to be regulated. Later, he issued more veiled threats, saying that web platforms "better be careful" as they're "treading on very, very troubled territory."

These sound like big threats, and regulating search engine behavior would be a huge deal, especially since Trump has virtually no evidence that search is "rigged." And the Trump administrati …

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]]> Adi Robertson <![CDATA[Trump says Google, Twitter, and Facebook are on ‘troubled territory’ and ‘better be careful’]]> https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/28/17792764/trump-google-rigged-search-results-claim-response 2018-08-28T15:50:30-04:00 2018-08-28T15:50:30-04:00

President Donald Trump has made more veiled threats toward Google and other web platforms, after tweeting this morning that Google had "rigged" its search results to suppress positive news about him. Trump told reporters during an Oval Office press meeting that Google, Facebook, and Twitter were "treading on very, very troubled territory," and that they had "better be careful, because you can't do that to people." Trump stopped short of describing any specific political consequences, but he asserted, "I think Google is really taking advantage of a lot of people, and I think that's a very serious thing, and it's a very serious charge."

Trump …

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]]> James Vincent <![CDATA[Trump claims Google is suppressing positive news about him and ‘will be addressed’]]> https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/28/17790164/president-trump-google-left-wing-bias-claims 2018-08-28T06:32:35-04:00 2018-08-28T06:32:35-04:00

The perceived left-wing bias of big tech companies has become a major talking point for conservatives. This morning on Twitter, President Trump escalated their claims.

Trump suggested that not only was there a tendency for tech companies to suppress right-wing voices, but that Google "rigged" its search results to only show negative reporting about him. The president said that the search giant and others were "hiding information and news that is good," and that this was a "very serious situation" that "will be addressed."

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