Trump
pushes conspiracy that Google suppresses negative news about Clinton
Donald
Trump on Wednesday revived an old
conspiracy that Google is in the tank for Hillary Clinton.*
“The
Google poll has us leading Hillary
Clinton by two points nationwide, and that’s despite the fact
that Google search engine was suppressing the bad
news about Hillary Clinton,” the Republican presidential **minee said in Wisconsin Wednesday, according to the
New York Times. “How
about that?”
It's an old theory — and one
that has been debunked.
Google was accused of suppressing
negative news about the Democratic presidential **minee in June after the conservative site SourceFed posted a
video about Google's autocorrect feature. Google's autofilled results, the video claimed, didn't complete "Hillary
Clinton cr" with "Hillary
Clinton criminal investigation," for example. Search engines Bing and Yahoo had different results.*
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