Google Calls BS on Trump's Claim It Blacklisted His 2017 and 2018 'State of the Union' Speeches
https://gizmodo.com/google-calls-bs-on-trumps-claim-it-blacklisted-his-2018-1828701483 On Wednesday, Donald Trump escalated his war with major U.S. tech companies he and other prominent conservatives have been baselessly accusing of censoring right-wingers. In a video with an ominous soundtrack posted to his Twitter account, the president's team accused search giant Google of featuring links to live streams of former President Barack Obama's State of the Union addresses but not his ... Spoiler: Google says this is not true. According to a spokesperson for the company, they did not feature the link in 2017 for Trump's speech to Congress, but neither did they do so for Obama's first one in 2009. That's because while these first-year speeches are often referred to as State of the Union events in popular parlance, they're formally just addresses to Congress. In 2018, Google said the link was indeed present ... - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list https://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad
