Google’s Bias, Quantified

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Power Line

John Hinderaker

May 12, 2019

The Daily Mail reports on a Northwestern University study that attempted to quantify the liberal bias of Google’s “top stories” feature:

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Google’s bias towards left-wing media outlets has been laid bare by an algorithm which detected that it favors sites including CNN and The New York Times over others.

According to data compiled by researchers from Northwestern University, the search engine promoted those sites over others repeatedly in November 2017.

Of the 6,302 articles that appeared in Google’s ‘top stories’ page that month after a term was searched, more than 10 percent were by CNN.

This is ridiculous, given CNN’s status as a failing, cranky, obsessively anti-Trump network that can’t compete in the marketplace.

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Here is the list of the 20 sources that accounted for 86% of Google’s “top stories.”

 

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