US President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order with which he intends to end the anti-conservative bias of Silicon Valley companies , as Politico has revealed in an exclusive confirmed by three sources.
The president has commissioned his team to work on "all regulatory and legislative solutions" to end this situation.
In the United States, an executive order is a directive signed by the president with the rank of law that, although they enjoy a legislative function, are subject to judicial review to ensure their constitutionality .
Although different drafts are still being considered on this order, the fact that the White House is working on the issue demonstrates that the US Executive is taking very seriously the fact of regulating the power and political influence of the companies of Silicon Valley
That the decisions and internal algorithms of large technology companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Google affect the outcome of the elections is a statement in which both Republicans and Democrats agree. However, although there is no agreement when it comes to measuring this magnitude, the percentages of influence of the studies that both parties handle (the use of segmented ads to benefit Trump in the past presidential elections referred to by Democrats and the Google Search Engine Manipulation Effect argued by Republicans) gives it a degree of influence that is over 10% of the total votes .
"If the Internet is considered an egalitarian platform but most of Twitter is a well of liberal poison (liberal is synonymous with progressive in this context) what the president is looking for is at least a little justice in the system," said a White House spokesman for Politician . "We think that social networks play a vital role in our culture that has helped them to be increasingly profitable," the source added.
The existence of this draft has leaked a day after President Trump accused Google of harming him in the face of the next presidential elections of the year 2020 .
The president's warnings came a day after meeting at the White House with Google CEO Sundar Pichai , in the framework of a social media meeting summit.
"[Google maintains] that it is not considered illegally sabotaging the presidential elections of the year 2020 despite the fact that everything he said was going in the opposite direction," the president said in his Twitter account.
The president supports his accusations in a program of the Fox News chain in which a former Google engineer claimed that the Internet giant wants to "make sure Trump loses in 2020" .
Information for which the president said "to be watching Google very closely."
The strong political bias favorable to the Democratic party within the large Silicon Valley companies is well known in the United States. Good proof of this is that the Democratic party received 90% of the money donated by the staff by the large Silicon Valley companies in the political cycle between 2004 and 2018.
An abysmal difference that, however, multinationals try to camouflage through official donations of Political Action Committees - ephemeral organizations created by companies to channel political donations during election periods - in which money is usually distributed at 50%.
However, according to the total money donated to both parties, the ratio is 9 to 1 in favor of the Democrats.
For example, Google gave $ 16.3 million to the Democrats versus 1.7 million to the Republicans. In the case of Amazon, they were 6.7 million compared to 732,000 dollars . For its part, Apple delivered 5.7 million against $ 578,000 . Facebook 3.9 million versus $ 580,000 . Finally, in the case of Netflix they were 3.7 million compared to $ 75,000 .
Some disparate figures that have long been causing a strong alarm among the representatives and supporters of the Republican party in the United States.
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