I was searching for a Tweet by the Donald on Allen West, so I cruised over to Google, and put [ “Donald Trump” Twitter “Allen West” ] into the box and clicked Go.
What came up on the first page? Some Allen West Tweets, an article saying violence keeps happening at Trump rallies, the media slams Trump’s Egypt Air response, Twitter’s… brutal reactions to Trump’s victory, and Reagan’s son posts chilling tweet after Trump’s victory.
What didn’t show up on the first page? Any Donald Trump Tweets.
So I reversed the order, putting West first. This one had a tweet from West saying Trump supported one form of gun control, David Duke drops Bombshell about Trump, the media slams Trump’s Egypt Air response, Twitter’s… brutal reactions to Trump victory, and Reagan’s son posts chilling tweet after Trump’s victory. No Trump Tweets.
So I tried the same thing with Trump and Cruz.
First tweet is Cruz slamming Donald for attacking women, saying he isn’t a real man. Then a couple of tweets from Donald about Ted being mathematically eliminated. Then Trump comparing his own wife to Heidi Cruz. Then Megyn Kelly criticizing Donald over criticizing Heidi. Then “Donald Trump tweets vicious threat about Ted Cruz’s wife.” Then “Donald Trump Just Attacked Ted Cruz’s Wife on Twitter.”
Donald and Hillary is the same thing, as are a few other tests I ran. A lot of anti-Trump material comes up on the first page, and then either no Trump Tweets, or a couple of meaningless ones.
Basically, if you perform a Google search on “Donald Trump’s” Twitter, it would seem that more often than not almost all of the material on the first page will be reliably negative material, designed to make the Donald look bad. Somehow I find it impossible to believe that is chance.
It does change if you search “Donald J. Trump,” which is what I assume his fans do, but if you are neutral, you would obviously search on just “Donald Trump,” and the page you would be directed to would be one big hit piece on Trump.
I hope when he is elected Donald does something to the election laws to make this type of thing easily investigated and punished if necessary. If a TV network can’t assign coverage to a candidate preferentially to affect an election, an internet company shouldn’t be allowed to either.
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Wasn’t the old rule of thumb that the MSM gave the Dems a 15 point advantage? If you add in the converged tech sector and social media, it’s probably more like 30 points. It seems more and more likely that one morning we’ll wake up to find that the right side of the Internet will have been “disappeared” during the night.