President Donald Trump’s latest grievance is with Google, a company he thinks is censoring search results to favor left-wing media outlets. Over the course of the last two days and starting with Trump’s parroting of a Fox News segment about Google search result bias, the president has intensified his criticism of Silicon Valley — not just Google, but Facebook and Twitter as well. The ensuing news cycle has been befuddling to say the least, as reporters, White House staff and members of Congress scramble to make sense of Trump’s increasingly misleading and unfounded claims of persecution. Here’s the latest updates on Trump’s war against the tech platforms.
Sep 25, 2018, 1:10 AM UTCNick Statt
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is headed to Washington this week to discuss censorship and China
The Google chief will be answering to GOP lawmakers in a private meeting
Aug 31, 2018, 12:43 AM UTCNick Statt
Trump says Amazon, Facebook, and Google represent a ‘very antitrust situation’
Aug 30, 2018, 6:36 PM UTCAdi Robertson
Sen. Orrin Hatch is telling the FTC to investigate Google after Trump’s ‘bias’ attacks
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate potential anti-competitive effects in Google’s search and digital advertising practices.
Aug 29, 2018, 11:01 PM UTCNick Statt
Trump’s latest misleading attack on Google, explained
The president falsely claimed Google did not link to State of the Union addresses
Aug 29, 2018, 8:33 PM UTCAdi Robertson
Trump claims he’s losing social media followers because of Google, Facebook, and Twitter censorship
President Donald Trump has once again accused Google, Facebook, and Twitter of vaguely defined censorship that ‘may not be legal,’ but said ‘we’re just going to see’ whether the platforms should be regulated.
Aug 29, 2018, 4:45 PM UTCAdi Robertson
Trump keeps threatening tech companies, but he’s terrible at following through
The Trump administration has gone up against tech companies with harsh immigration limits and erratic trade policy. But his recent tirade against Google’s search results is a less-than-credible threat.
Aug 28, 2018, 7:50 PM UTCAdi Robertson
Trump says Google, Twitter, and Facebook are on ‘troubled territory’ and ‘better be careful’
More veiled threats toward Google and other web platforms.
Aug 28, 2018, 10:32 AM UTCJames Vincent
Trump claims Google is suppressing positive news about him and ‘will be addressed’
The president said that Google had ‘rigged’ its search results to suppress positive coverage
