‘It is a disgrace that Google would do that’: Trump takes aim at search engine over claims it fixed results to help Hillary Clinton
Donald Trump said it would be a ‘disgrace’ if it is true that Google manipulated autocomplete results to favor Hillary Clinton
He added Google should ‘allow people to see how crooked [she] really is’
The accusation is based on Google queries conducted by SourceFed compared with searches it did on Bing and Yahoo for unflattering phrases
SourceFed Googled the terms ‘Hillary Clinton cri’ the word ‘crime’ is not in the first three autocomplete suggestions to pop up
Google rebutted the video and said ‘autocomplete does not favor any candidate or cause’ and ‘claims to the contrary’ are misguided
It doesn’t use crime as an autocomplete word for anyone’s name
By Francesca Chambers, White House Correspondent
Dailymail.com
11 June 2016
Donald Trump has responded after a video went viral this week claiming to show Google has been fiddling with autocomplete results to suppress terms unfavorable to Hillary Clinton.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee told Business Insider that if the claim it is true, ‘it is a disgrace that Google would do that,’ adding ‘very, very dishonest.’
‘They should let it float and allow people [to] see how crooked she really is,’ he told the business site in a statement on Friday.
The accusation is based on Google queries conducted by SourceFed compared with searches it did on Bing and Yahoo for phrases that are unflattering to Clinton.
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