President Trump Calls Google 'Rigged,' Claims Searches Only Surface Left-Wing Media

President Donald Trump continued his criticism of the tech world on Tuesday morning. The president took to Twitter and bemoaned Google’s news algorithm for primarily surfacing news sources like CNN when one searches for “Trump news.”

Trump got the day started by making the accusations against Google in a series of tweets. According to Trump, searching for news about him on the heavily used search engine almost exclusively brings back left-leaning publications that are not fair to him. CNN was one example he gave of a site that gets prominent placement on Google, supposedly to the president’s detriment.

He then claimed 96 percent of said search results come from left-wing media. He did not say where those statistics came from.

Trump’s tweets came after weeks of the president criticizing other tech platforms for allegedly silencing conservative voices. In July, Trump accused Twitter of “shadow banning” conservatives after a handful of far-right accounts stopped showing up in the site’s drop-down search results menu. After Trump called the practice discriminatory, Twitter returned its search function to normal.

Then, in August, several platforms made moves against right-wing conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones. Facebook, iTunes, Spotify and YouTube all removed content associated with Jones, effectively banning him from those platforms for violating speech policies. Twitter, meanwhile, barred Jones from tweeting from his personal account for a week.

Trump then called it “dangerous” for sites like Facebook and Twitter to ban conservatives, though he did not specifically mention Jones in his comments.

The president himself was scrutinized earlier this year for blocking those who disagreed with him on Twitter. A federal judge ruled in May that his Twitter account was a public service and he could not block people on ideological grounds.

Executives from Facebook, Google and Twitter will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee next week, regarding abuse of social networks by foreign actors.