Internet browser impacts on public opinion formation study by Sean & Stephanie & Paul shows(2013). As the study found out that the young generation is highly impacted by accumulated exposure on those media, it is important to have good use of these.
Retrieved from (Rand, Oct 16, 2018)
One of those internet browsers, Google is known as one of the dominant web services providers in the world, its share in the USA is significant as the diagram below shows. However, an ex-engineer of Google said that they were biasing the content during the USA presidential election, to decrease content regarding Current president Donald Trump(Benjamin, Aug 8, 2019). The engineer claimed that Google set up a program that tries to show fewer contents on Trump in some search. The engineer also said that the program was ordered by upper management, which Google is no denying the fact.
However, the real fact of this case is not found yet, and it could be taken in many ways. There are some useful links on citation & reference section, please find more information there to check the reality on your eyes.
For example, this news is reported by many media but each one has several differences in its contents. NewsWeek, the report did not mention Google's response about this scandal, whereas Vox mentioned Trump's react and Google response to it. It is very needed to check other resources as for this case, each media have a quite different perspective on top of ex-googler employees claim.
Citation
Sean, A. Munson & Stephanie, Y. Lee & Paul, Resnick (2013). Encouraging Reading of Diverse Political Viewpoints with a Browser Widget.
Rani, Molla (Aug 7, 2019). Trump says Google is biased against conservatives. Here’s how search actually works: Retrieved from:
Rand, Fishkin (Oct 16, 2018). 2018 Search Market Share: Myths vs. Realities of Google, Bing, Amazon, Facebook, DuckDuckGo, & More: Retrieved from
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Benjamin, Fearnow (Aug 8, 2019). ex-google engineer claims 'biased' employees 'really want
Trump to lose in 2020': Retrieved from
Nick, Bastone (Aug 20, 2019). The new report that Trump says shows Google 'manipulated' 2.6 million votes for Hillary Clinton is a 2-year-old study that a San Diego psychologist based on 95 people: Retrieved from
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