Google's partisan bent

 Warner Todd Huston:

After a recent non-partisan study found that Google is seriously biased to the far left in its search results, the Internet giant lamely clapped back and claimed they aren’t biased at all — despite all the proof otherwise.

Google basically just said, “Nu-uh, you big poopy head!”

The study published in Feb. by a research group called AllSides found that Google News has a “strong political bias” to the far left.’

“Imbalanced or heavily biased news search results can have a negative impact on our democracy and elections,” Julie Mastrine, director of marketing and media bias ratings at AllSides, told The Daily Signal early this month. “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.”

“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,” the group added.

But Google struck back and, in a bald-faced lie, and contrary to all evidence, claimed they have no political bias at all.

“Our systems do not take political ideology into account, and we go to extraordinary lengths to build our products for everyone,” the search engine giant exclaimed. “This study’s methodology is deeply flawed. It cherry-picked a few topics and ran for a very brief period, presenting a misleading picture of Google News.”

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If you go to the Google News site you will find links to stories that mainly have a leftist bent.  Perhaps the algorithms they use have a leftist bent to them.  You don't necessarily find this leftist bent in their search results.  I find Yahoo news results more interesting.

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