President Donald Trump has actually implicated Silicon Valley business of liberal predisposition and suppression of conservative voices.
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President Donald Trump is showing up the heat on tech business he states assistance liberal viewpoints, recommending Thursday that they might remain in a “very antitrust situation.”
“I won’t comment on the breaking up, of whether it’s that or Amazon or Facebook,” Trump stated in an Oval Office interview Thursday with BloombergNews “As you know, many people think it is a very anti-trust situation, the three of them. But I just, I won’t comment on that.”
He likewise restated his allegation that “conservatives have been treated very unfairly” byGoogle “I tell you there are some moments where we say, ‘Wow that really is bad, what they’re doing.'”
Trump’s newest remarks follow a string of criticism he’s leveled at Silicon Valley, implicating business such as Google, Facebook and Twitter of liberal predisposition and suppression of conservative voices. On Tuesday, Trump implicated Google of doctoring its search results page for “Trump News” to reveal just unfavorable protection about him– a charge Google rejected.
“They are controlling what we can & cannot see. This is a very serious situation-will be addressed!” Trump stated in a tweet Tuesday, including a later Oval Office conversation that Google, Twitter and Facebook are “really treading on very, very troubled territory, and they have to be careful.”
On Wednesday, Trump tweeted a video that implicated Google of not promoting his State of the Union addresses on its web page after years of doing so for previous President Barack Obama’s speeches. Google reacted by stating it didn’t promote either president’s very first speech to the Congress since they aren’t technically a State of the Union address.
Earlier Thursday, RepublicanSen Orrin Hatch of Utah sent out a letter (PDF) to the Federal Trade Commission asking it to re-examine Google’s search and digital marketing practices, calling reports of anticompetitive conduct by the business “disquieting.”
In 2013, the FTC closed an examination into whether Google’s search results page were unjustly prejudiced in favor of its own items, with commissioners all choosing that Google wasn’t breaching any antitrust laws concerning search results page.
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Trump’s comments come as representatives from Google, Facebook and Twitter are expected to testify before Congress next week over a range of topics, including election meddling, disinformation and data misuse. A number of the biggest internet and social media companies have also drawn flak for the perception that they reflect a liberal bias.
Earlier this month, Trump accused social media companies of “totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices” in a series of tweets after far-right conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones was banned from several major tech platforms.
Last Friday, Trump expanded on the point, saying that social media companies “are silencing millions of people” and that people must be allowed to “figure out what is real, and what is not, without censorship.”
Amazon and Facebook declined to comment on Trump’s latest comments, while Google didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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