
While several tech giants have found themselves in President Trump's crosshairs since he took office, he has just unleashed what looks to be his most sustained attack on Google to date -- firing off a couple of tweets at ~5.30am Washington DC time to rail against what he claims is algorithmic bias in the results the search engine serves up if someone types in "Trump News". In his rage tweets, Trump makes the specific allegation that "96% of results on "Trump News" are from National Left-Wing Media", without citing his source for the claimed datapoint. The Guardian suggests the 96% claim is a reference to an article posted at the weekend by the website PJ Media whose self-described "not-scientific" study of the top 100 Google News results for the search term “Trump” apparently suggested “a pattern of bias against right-leaning content”. ...
When you are shit, you will put out stink. It is not surprising that Google News about Trump is negative. That is what he has earned. It doesnt make it a 'conspiracy'.