Yes, Silicon Valley needs regulation. But Trump’s reason why is misguided | Dipayan Ghosh

Trump claimed that Google and Facebook suppress conservative content. The reason why is simple: we see what they think we want to, because it's in their business interest

In a head-turning move that has pitted him squarely against Silicon Valley's most revered companies, Donald Trump proclaimed last week that algorithms developed by the likes of Google and Facebook fail to offer consumers politically-balanced news about American politics and his presidency itself.

The underlying insinuation was that firms like Google, in designing features like search engine results pages and the algorithms that power them, perpetuate a kind of bias against conservative media in the US. His message, in all its brashness, was very clear: that there is an insidious suppression of certain kinds of US news outlets, and that should the internet platform companies fail to address it, the president himself will do so throhesiugh the power vested in him - including, potentially, by levying heavy-handed regulation.