The charismatic and very controversial candidate for the Republican Party for the presidency of the White House, Donald Trump, is in favor of the conspiracy theory according to which Google is against him.
The businessman now come to politician claims Google search "has been removing negative news about Hillary Clinton", his rival for the Democratic Party for the presidency of the United States whose elections will take place next November.
Donald Trump: "the search engine has been eliminating negative news about Hillary Clinton"
Perhaps the only thing you know about Donald Trump is that he is a billionaire businessman who now wants to be president of the United States. And it is very likely that you have gotten to know him a little better thanks to their continuous outbursts in all kinds of settings, from election speeches to television shows. With its macho, racist, xenophobic, homophobic, misogynist and more typical tendencies of past centuries manifested from the four winds without any kind of self-censorship, has earned the rejection of important sectors of American and global society, including a part of his own party that believes that Trump seriously damages his image, although it remains to be seen whether this rejection will succeed in slowing his rise to the presidential seat.
One of the sectors that has most firmly opposed the claims of Donald Trump has been the technology sector, something logical since Trump represents everything that Google, Apple and many others defend. After this there is, as is usual in these times, an economic background. Trump's proposals for products to be manufactured "at home" by imposing high tax rates on everything that comes from abroad is something that these, or many other companies, have not liked, whose profits are largely in the hands of cheap work found in so-called developing countries or peripheral countries such as China, India, Brazil, and so on.
Now the republican candidate resumes his speech against technology, and in particular against Google, launching an accusation that, if true, regardless of the feelings that this man arouses and our ideology, would be extremely serious.
Last Wednesday, during an electoral speech delivered in Wisconsin (United States), Donald Trump fed a conspiracy theory according to which Google would be eliminating in its search engine the search results that in some way refer in a negative way to its opponent, Hillary Clinton.
The Google poll says we're two points ahead of Hillary Clinton nationally and that's despite the fact that the search engine has been removing negative news about Hillary Clinton. What's up with that?, affirmed the republican candidate.
The origin and foundation of the conspiracy theory
This theory of Google's conspiracy against Trump is not new, it has been circulating on the network for several months. Specific, was born last June with the dissemination of a video on the SourceFeed page that was soon echoed by mainly conservative media like Breitvat, whose director is now Trump's campaign adviser, or Sputnik News, a page run by the government news agency Rossiya Segodnya, of Putin's Russian government.
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This conspiracy theory It is based on the suggestions that the Google search engine makes us when we begin to enter the desired search terms. This auto function completes what we are writing about by offering various options that are supposed to be based on the most popular searches among all Google users.
As you may have seen, the video shows a person entering the terms “Hillary Clinton cri…”, as if the last word they want to enter is “criminal”. The results are different from what other search engines offer.
According to the narrator, this shows "that Google has been deliberately modifying the search recommendations in favor of the Clinton campaign" although perhaps, just perhaps, it could have opted for the more logical argument that most likely user searches for Google does not have to be exactly the same as those of other search engines and, consequently, the tpco suggestions may be the same.
What does Google say about it?
From Google they have already spoken denying such accusation and affirming that the search engine omits offensive results when they are associated with a person:
Our algorithms do not advance search terms that are offensive or insulting if they are associated with a person's name. The search engine's system that auto-completes the search words does not favor any candidate or any cause. Whoever defends the opposite simply does not understand how it worksa Google spokeswoman responded on CNN.
The accusation, for the moment, has not been able to be proven. In fact, other media would have proven otherwise based on their own analysis. In any case, I insist that it is something that should be investigated since we are facing an issue as serious as a hypothetical manipulation of information.
Do you think Google would be able to take the actions that Donald Trump accuses him of or is it just a new departure from this peculiar character?