lengthy complaints this morning saying, google search results for trump news shows the reporting of fake news media. in other words, it s rigged for me and others so that stories is bag. fake cnn is prominent. fair media is shutout. 96 results of trump news are from left wing media. very dangerous. google and others are hiding information and news that is good. they re controlling what we can and cannot see. it s a very serious situation. the white house didn t say how it would be addressed. if you do a google search and we did one in the last hour, what you get is a lot of stories about president trump and the new accusations about google. you get the stories on why trump can t perform his job. has he been a russian asset, stories about his marriage to melania and others that you put in the negative category.
taken advantage of a lot of people. it s a very serious thing and it s a very serious charge. i think what google and others are doing, if you take a look at what s going on in twitter. if you look at what s going on in facebook. they better be careful. you can t do that to people. you can t do it. we have tremendous we have literally thousands and thousands of complaints coming in. and you just can t do that. so, i think that google and twitter and facebook, they re really treading on very, very troubled territory. welcome back to hardball. that was president trump continuing his attack on google and other social media companies for what he says is a bias against conservatives. this follows trump s tweets from this morning writing, quote, google search results for trump news shows only the view of fake news media. in other words, they have it rigged. google fighting back with this
a white house that sfteps in it every few hours. it took a while before he actually did it. the word out there is that the president didn t want to honor mccain in the way that other giants of the senate and other lawmakers have been honored in the past. and it took it took these turning of the screws by veterans groups, by lawmakers, by people in the white house to make this actually happen. there s no real there s nothing that s showing us, you know, what the turning point was or the point that made the president actually make this decision occur. but there was a preponderance of weight on the side of folks who said, hey, mr. president, just make the lay-up. all right, ben, good to talk to you. a wall street journal reporter. the president was up early this morning apparently googling himself, and he was definitely not pleased with the results. he tweeted, quote, google search results for trump news shows
and then tweeted again. google search results for trump news shows only the viewing reporting of fake news media. in other words, they have rigged it. for me and others so almost all stories and news is bad. google and others are suppressing voices of conservatives and hiding information and news that is good. then larry kudlow, the president s economic adviser, followed up with this. does the president believe or does the administration feel there needs to be some sort of regulation for google? what exactly was the president referring to? we ll let you know. we re taking a look at it. is the president aware that idea originated in a story on russian media during the campaign that s been discredited? which media, which campaign? google censuring results. this is above my pay grade. shannon pettypiece. good to have you with us. this is not the first time the
providing any evidence or context, that 96% of google search results for trump news showed only the reporting of cnn and other outlets that he s referred to as fake news and he accused the search giant of controlling what we can and cannot see. google responded with a statement, which read in part, search is not used to set a political agenda and we don t bias our results towards any political ideology, saying we continually work to improve google search. the president had this to say on the issue just moments ago. i think google has really taken advantage of a lot of people, and i think it s a very serious thing and a very serious charge. i think what google and others are doing, if you look at what s going on at twitter in facebook, they better be careful, because you can t do that to people. we have tremendous we have literally thousands and thousands of complaints coming