Google is scrambling to discredit a new report showing that its news results skew to the political Left.
The Daily Signal reports that in five days leading up to the 2022 election, the Google results appeared to be skewed explicitly to the political Left. The Daily Signal reports that this is true for the news that Google puts out to viewers and on the homepage results that appear for various search terms.
Julie Mastrine, director of marketing and media bias ratings at AllSides, spoke with the Daily Signal and said:
Imbalanced or heavily biased news search results can have a negative impact on our democracy and elections, and When people cannot access the full range of views on political and societal issues, they are subject to partisan manipulation and cannot truly decide for themselves.
She continued by saying: The AllSides balanced newsfeed solves the problem of biased online news aggregation by curating articles from the left, center, and right, so people can get diverse perspectives and think for themselves.
Google claims that the study cherry-picked specific topics for the research that it did, and this caused the results to be very skewed the way that the researchers wanted them to be. In other words, Google stated it was a flawed study and did not agree with the funding.
AllSides is a media company dedicated to presenting balanced news and diverse perspectives. They are the ones who were behind the study into Googles search results.
The study found that 61% of the media outlets on Googles homepage leaned to the Left. Approximately 25% of those outlets had viewpoints that were politically in the center, and only 3% of them had views that leaned conservative.
This is just the latest study to find that major media outlets such as Google have search results that lean to the Left, which might influence the viewpoints that people searching the Internet are potentially influenced by those results.
This is just one study, and it is worth considering that Google disputes the results, but plenty of people feel that this indicates what many other studies have found before. The Internet has a lean-Left bias that can influence the viewpoints of many people across the country. That is something that can have a profound impact on our political structures and governments.
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