Trump bias claims ‘not true’ – Google

• Posted on August 30, 2018
• by Ellsamwise King
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Google has disputed claims from President Donald Trump that it did not promote his State of the Union address.

President Trump posted a video on Twitter he said provided evidence the search giant had not featured his 2017 speech.

In response, Google said this speech had been to Congress and therefore not a State of the Union address.

Google’s director of news tweeted that President Trump’s claims were “not true”.

The president’s tweet, which has been viewed three million times, links to a video featuring a series of screenshots of Google homepages, from January 2012 to February 2018.

A headline reads: “For years Google promoted President Obama’s State of the Union on its homepage. When President Trump took office, it stopped.”

It is not clear who made the original video or how it was created but the tweet is hashtagged #StoptheBias.

In a statement, Google said: “On 30 January 2018, we highlighted the livestream of President Trump’s State of the Union on the google.com homepage.”

“We have historically not promoted the first address to Congress by a new president, which is not a State of the Union address. As a result, we didn’t include a promotion on google.com for this address in either 2009 or 2017.”

Source: BBC