https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17858874
Perhaps this story will also get flagged - it seems there's a lot of people who don't like discussion of political bias in Silicon Valley companies on HN.
It's pretty easy to see why Trump thinks this. Just go to Google News and search Trump, then look at which news sources are selected. Or just look at this helpful pie chart:
https://static.pjmedia.com/trending/user-content/51/files/20...
The way News selects and ranks sources is even more opaque than web search. Web search at least has some papers describing how it works, but News searches only over a subset of the web selected by humans.
What policies do they use to decide what gets to be included?
https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/6204...
They state:
We do not allow content that sends messages intended to harass, bully, or physically or sexually threaten others.
We do not allow sites or accounts that engage in coordinated activity to mislead users
We do not allow content that promotes violence or harassment against an individual or group based on ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, sexual orientation or gender identity.
Well, that's going to be a problem for Google because by now everyone got the memo that the student generation that Google has been hiring extensively from for years now is willing to define almost any kind of viewpoint that isn't extremely liberal as "harassment" or "hate". Including fairly anodyne policies Trump has, like there being limits on immigration.
How will Google credibly argue they aren't biased when their inclusion policy for Google News reads like a list of guidelines to a university safe space?