President Donald Trump has taken another stab at what he believes is a too left-leaning monopoly of tech firms, this time accusing Google LLC of rigging its search results to hide positive news about him.

In a series of tweets last week, Trump denounced private tech companies for what he called the unfair “censorship” of “Republican/Conservative voices.” That seemed to be related to the crackdown on content from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Today, the president claimed that Google has “rigged” its search results so that when searches are made about him, the results are largely from what he called “Fake News 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?” he said in one tweet.

He went on to say that 96 percent of results related to “Trump News” revealed content from national left-wing media, something he said was “dangerous.” He didn’t stop there, adding, “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!”

Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. were also the focus of his ire when he spoke to reporters at the Oval Office on Tuesday. He said all three tech companies were “treading on very, very troubled territory.”

Google responded to the accusations, stating that search results were not configured to any sort of bias or political agenda. “Every year, we issue hundreds of improvements to our algorithms to ensure they surface high-quality content in response to users’ queries,” said Google. “We continually work to improve Google Search and we never rank search results to manipulate political sentiment.”

Although it’s reported that the White House will follow up on these claims, the president’s accusations have been impugned by a number of experts working in technology. How Google’s search algorithm is quite complicated, but the company does offer a set of guidelines for its users.

Those guidelines say content is ranked on its accuracy and whether the sources are reputable, have rigorous editorial policies and possess a certain level of “expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness.”

Trump doesn’t seem to be getting much credit for these latest denouncements, with some saying it’s just more political bluster and his own new pet conspiracy theory. He may be taking advantage of firms becoming embroiled in controversies over data breaches and Russian interference with elections, not to mention the promulgation of hate speech and other propaganda.

Hey @realDonaldTrump if you think Google is bad wait until you see the history books.

— Josh Hara (@yoyoha) August 28, 2018

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