The results of Malaysia’s historic general election in May were the most widely searched news item in 2018. The election ushered in the first change in government since the country’s independence in 1957. Also at the top of the country’s most searched news topics was the “Momo Challenge...
Google has donated previously to other presidential inaugural funds. The tech giant will assist users in watching the inauguration by promoting links on its homepage and YouTube, a company spokesperson said. Boeing also confirmed to The Hill it made a $1 million donation to the inauguration. “W...
Google’s search engine may have “manipulated” millions of voters into supporting Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election by way of slanted search results, US President Donald Trump has claimed in a tweet. In a tweet on Monday, Trump suggested that a“report just out”concludes t...
In both waves, we found more identity-congruent and unreliable news sources in participants’ engagement choices, both within Google Search and overall, than they were exposed to in their Google Search results. These results indicate that exposure to and engagement with partisan or unreliable news ...
We chose to use polling data rather than election data because the AfD is a fairly new party without extensive data on its election results.5 Although the polling data itself might have been subject to social desirability bias and other weaknesses, we assumed that the polls could still reliably...
Users on Wednesday noticed that results for search queries that included "US Presidents," "United States Presidents" and "US Presidents in order" did not include Biden, who concluded his four-year presidential term on Monday. Users reported seeing a list of presidents ranging from George ...
The article discusses a feature of search engine Google which provides results based on a user's previous searches and how that feature is used for the 2012 U.S. presidential election. It states that search results are customized for those who searched for U.S. President Barack Obama, but ...
There was so much coverage of accusations of a rigged election, the Capital riots, even the last minute firing of the White House Usher, that the search results for the Donald are permanently stained. Google and Twitter are a double-edged swords ...
Reducing false and misleading information has been a top priority for Google since concerns over misinformation surfaced during the 2016 US presidential election. The search giant is investing huge sums of money and brain power into organizing the ever-increasing amounts of content on the web in ...
Bondi’s previous confrontations with Democratic senators had been relatively uncontentious, even as they pushed Bondi toanswer questions around the results of the 2020 electionthat Bondi largely obfuscated. But the interaction with Padilla got testy. ...