Opinion

Yes, Google is disrupting our democracy. But not in the way Trump thinks.

Ramesh Srinivasan is a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles in the department of information studies and director of the UC Digital Cultures Lab. He is author of the forthcoming book “Beyond the Valley.”

Conservatives have made it their mission lately to paint tech companies as liberal opponents whose mission is to secretly thwart Republicans online. This includes President Trump, who tweeted this week that Google had “manipulated from 2.6 million to 16 million votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016 Election.”