Article snippet: MORE twice hit out at tech giants on Tuesday, raising the stakes for companies that are already in the political firing line. In early morning tweets, Trump contended that “Google search results for ‘Trump News’ shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake News Media. In other words, they have it RIGGED.” He added: “Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good.” Google moved swiftly to push back on the president’s tweets. A statement from the search giant said in part: "Search is not used to set a political agenda and we don't bias our results toward any political ideology...We never rank search results to manipulate political sentiment." Even so, Trump’s words will cause unease in Silicon Valley. Some tech leaders acknowledge they are under increasing pressure on various fronts. They have been buffeted by several controversies, from Russia’s apparent use of deceptive Facebook accounts during the 2016 presidential election campaign to the question of whether controversial users such as Alex Jones of Infowars should be banned from social media platforms. The tech companies also make inviting targets for both major political parties, in different ways: Democrats are suspicious of the companies’ vast wealth and corporate power; Republicans fret that the broadly liberal ideological complexion of the tech community leaves the GOP, and conservatives more generally, vulnerable to bias. Tim Groeling, a professor of... Link to the full article to read more