Ars Technica: How Google influences the conversation in Washington

Ars Technica: How Google influences the conversation in Washington. “A few days after last year’s midterm election, a Google policy manager and lobbyist sent an email to a congressional staffer with a link to a blog post on the right-wing news site Red State, written under the name The Real DC. In the post, the author accuses Google’s competitor Yelp of prodding President Trump to tweet a ‘professionally designed’ video about Google’s alleged bias, which The Real DC calls ‘fake news’ because it ‘bears many similarities’ to content produced by Yelp.”