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Guess Who Google Blots Out in ‘Trump Rescission’ Package Search– www.newsbusters.org
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Google is once again eliminating right-leaning media outlets and organizations from search results.
MRC researchers searched the words “trump rescission” on Tuesday, the day the Trump administration sent a $9.4 billion rescissions package to Congress that would cut funds to USAID as well as PBS and NPR’s taxpayer funding. Not one of the 14 links the search giant provided led to a right-leaning media outlet or organization.
Instead, Google repeatedly propped up numerous leftist media outlets, including none other than NPR and PBS. Meanwhile, Google excluded Fox News, The Daily Caller and The Heritage Foundation from its search results, even though all three published articles on the topic.
MRC President David Bozell torched the search engine for its blatant bias. “This is just more evidence of how much Google hates Trump and how much it loves propping up these propaganda outlets,” Bozell said. “Google has abandoned any pretense of neutrality. Conservative voices are not merely being suppressed and shoved to the bottom of results, they’re being completely eliminated and erased.”
Nearly 40 percent of the links Google elevated came from NPR and PBS reporting on how they each might be stripped of public funds. In one piece—headlined “Trump asks Congress to claw back $1.1 billion from public media”—PBS tried to defend its taxpayer funding and spread doom and gloom about what might happen should it be pulled. NPR did something similar in another article headlined “Trump asks Congress to wipe out funding for public broadcasting.”
Europe targets Apple and Google in antitrust crackdown, risking fresh Trump tariff clash – Fortune
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In a move that risks enraging the Trump administration, the European Commission has announced major antitrust enforcement decisions against Google and Apple.
The European Union is targeting Google and Apple for Antitrust violations that could force one company, Apple, to alter its product significantly, and Google over 10% of its global revenue. The UK is following suit by threatening to prosecute U.S. social media companies that don’t comply with their soviet and Muslim-compliant brand of censorship.
The Trump administration had previously threatened countries with tariff retaliation that target American companies in the way the UK and the EU just did.
Social media platforms face fines and criminal prosecution in UK – Marketing Tech
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The UK Online Safety Act officially came into force on Monday, March 17, 2025, granting Ofcom extensive new powers to hold social media platforms accountable for illegal content.
Under the landmark legislation, technology companies must take proactive measures to detect and remove harmful material or face penalties of up to £18 million or 10% of their global revenue, whichever is higher.
New enforcement powers target illegal content
Technology firms must do more to tackle illegal content on their platforms as Ofcom begins enforcing the Online Safety Act’s illegal content codes.
From Monday, the regulator has started requiring social media companies to find and remove content such as child sexual abuse material, terrorism-related content, hate crimes, content encouraging suicide, and fraud.
Technology secretary Peter Kyle described the changes as “a major step forward in creating a safer online world.” He added that “for too long”, child abuse material, terrorist content, and intimate image abuse have been “easy to find online.” Still, social media platforms now have a legal duty to prevent and remove such material.
“Platforms must now act quickly to comply with their legal duties, and our codes are designed to help them do that,” said Suzanne Cater, enforcement director at Ofcom. “But, make no mistake, any provider who fails to introduce the necessary protections can expect to face the full force of our enforcement action.”
Europe targets Apple and Google in antitrust crackdown, risking fresh Trump tariff clash – Fortune
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In a move that risks enraging the Trump administration, the European Commission has announced major antitrust enforcement decisions against Google and Apple.