A new study on the Google News service shows that five news organizations considered liberal make up almost half of the sites recommended when people are doing searches.
The study, performed by researchers Seth Lewis and Efrat Nechushtai and published in the journal "Computers in Human Behavior" in August, showed that everybody gets the same results when searching online, but 49 percent of the total recommendations returned come from The New York Times, CNN, Politico, The Washington Post and HuffPost, reports Newsbusters.
In addition, just 14 news organizations made up 79 percent of the total news recommendations that returned.
Lewis told Wired that Google is "dominated by mainstream news," and that people who consider the mainstream media to be left leaning, "you will have concerns about the results you get from Google News. There's no question about that."
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ReplyDeleteRemember when their slogan was "Don't Be Evil"? Sounded warm & fuzzy, didn't it?
No more...
If you doubt this in any way, just check the default news feeds on your mobile device. Not the one you added manually, the one that was pre-installed. Fox News will NEVER be a pre-installed news feed on your device. I checked my Amazon Fire, iPad, Samsung....each had a liberal default feed.
ReplyDeleteAgain...still want to debunk this, type in "news" into the Google search bar. Each and every story will be from WaPo, NY Times, CNN, etc.
See what I mean. This can't be by chance.
And the Hillary cohorts wanted Google and Facebook to be the guardians of free speech.
One more reason I'm glad DJT is our POTUS.