YIKES! New AllSides Study Shows Google News Pro-Leftist Bias Got WORSE

NewsBusters ^ | 2/23/2024 | Joseph Vazquez

[JV3MRC]

“Be Evil” should be Google’s new motto these days. The anti-free speech Big Tech giant has continued its sordid habit of suppressing right-leaning media sources while inundating users with left-leaning content.

A new analysis from media solutions company AllSides once again found that Google News is overwhelmingly elevating news media from “the left” while burying news media from “the right.” AllSides monitored Google News' homepage over a two-week period in 2023 and uncovered that a whopping 63 percent of 494 articles came from sources “on the left.” By contrast, only a negligible six percent came from sources “on the right.” In addition, the group also analyzed stories generated through Google News’s search results based on specific prompts like “Economy” and “Abortion,” which likewise produced heavily skewed results favoring the left.

AllSides noted in its write-up of the study results that the 63 percent figure for left-leaning outlets reflected “a larger share [of the sources analyzed] than in 2022, when 61% of articles on Google News were from liberal outlets. In 2023, 6% of articles were from sources on the right; in 2022, just 3%.” As the U.S. braces for a contentious presidential election in November, it is clear that Google News is doing everything it can to manipulate the information flow to the left’s advantage.

AllSides CEO John Gable told MRC Free Speech America that “Google News' bias may or may not be intentional, but it is pronounced.” He noted that AllSides data and Google News studies have been “consistent” going all the way back to 2018. “When readers are stuck inside one-sided filter bubbles democracy languishes,” Gable said.

[jjotto]

No surprise to anyone who uses it. That includes Google-dependent search engines like the DuckDuckGo search engine. Just AP, NYT, and WaPo regurgitated by more local outlets. Worthless unless you want to parrot the MSM.

[TexasFreeper2009]

I just found out recently that you can turn off results from sources you don’t like. After I did that, things are a lot better.

The main issue is there are just more left leaning news sources so of course they are going to pop up more.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Why would FedGov want to do anything about the Internet?

It’s doing exactly what they want.

[A strike]

John Gable: “Google news bias may or may not be intentional ..”
Brain Dead !!

[I want the USA back]

It’s election season, and the big guy has ordered them to help with the election.

[Chgogal]

Google, the enemy of Truth, Freedom and the American Way. Use the product at your own risk.

[Reverend Wright]

The one thing it does tell you is the preferred Regime messaging to its supporters.

Because The Cathedral has a distributed and emergent leadership, they have to be publically communicated with.

And the Google news feed tells you what the Regime messaging is because they prioritize the most important Cathedral sources.

[zeestephen]

Sounds like MSN.com.

They get 90% of their news from Hard Left sources.

Most of the MSN.com stories come from recently created news organizations, with corporate names I do not recognize, and which simply re-write politically Left news gathered from traditional sources.

[cgbg]

My approach is this:

I do a standard search and get the standard results.

I look for the key words used by the mass media outlets, the top two or three words is good.

Then I redo the search with a minus in front of those keywords.

That eliminates a ton of “mainstream” sources—because they all use the same terms.

Rinse and repeat if any mainstream/leftist sources remain.

These propaganda folks are not very creative.

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[FreedomPoster]

I want to know where AllSides found 31% of Google sources that were neither left nor right. Seems unlikely.