When Stephen Colbert roasted George W Bush at the White House Correspondent’s dinner he made a joke which explained the post-truth movement which was currently burbling away on the right of politics: “reality has a well-known liberal bias.”
And oh, what a good joke that was. Right up until the 2016 election.
And now we have the spectacle of Donald Trump, the man who is still inexplicably president of the United States, complaining that Google are biased against him because their search results are not suitably flattering.
Google search results for “Trump News” shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake News Media. In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD. Fake CNN is prominent. Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out. Illegal? 96% of….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 28, 2018
….results on “Trump News” are from National Left-Wing Media, very dangerous. Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good. They are controlling what we can & cannot see. This is a very serious situation-will be addressed!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 28, 2018
As with all Trump pronouncements there’s no suggestion that his claims or data is based on anything other than his imagination, nor is there any way anyone can imagine of “addressing” it, unless he’s planning on burning down all of Google’s servers. Which sounds like effort, frankly.
Anyway, they’ll all still live on in the cloud. The one he’s yelling at.
It’s a classic for a reason.