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Surely there’s a way to study this and generate some meaningful statistics on whether Google (and others) actually bury conservative stories. Or maybe it’s alre

Surely there’s a way to study this and generate some meaningful statistics on whether Google (and others) actually bury conservative stories. Or maybe it’s already been studied, and either supported or rebutted.

dagenix 8y ago
First you have to figure out what a "consevative story" is. Then, you need to figure out why a search for "Trump News" shouldn't bury partisan hackery on both the left and the right. "News" used to / ought to mean something about a presentation of facts, not some particular party's preference for what it would like the facts to be.
- traviscj 8y ago
  I guess the world used to have less facts, and now they have to choose which ones to publish? Jk. Money talks, and outrage sells better than dry facts.
yostrovs 8y ago
You can open up a private tab in your browser, go to Google News and do a search for yourself.
- takeda 8y ago
  Looks like either all search engines are biased (not just Google) or Trump is.
loganekz 8y ago
This started from an article [1] posted on Drudge Report recently. [1] - https://pjmedia.com/trending/google-search-results-show-pervasive-anti-trump-anti-conservative-bias/ https://pjmedia.com/trending/google-search-results-show-perv...
giardini 8y ago
This came out the 25 August 2018: "96 Percent of Google Search Results for 'Trump' News Are from Liberal Media Outlets" https://pjmedia.com/trending/google-search-results-show-pervasive-anti-trump-anti-conservative-bias/ https://pjmedia.com/trending/google-search-results-show-perv... Google supported Clinton and threw resources behind her campaign: "However, one can't help but be skeptical considering that just before the 2016 presidential election, among the many leaks published by Wikileaks as part of its Podesta email campaign was Google's "strategic plan" to help democrats win the election and track voters." from https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-28/google-responds-trump-says-doesnt-bias-search-results https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-28/google-responds-tr... More at https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-01/wikileaks-reveals-googles-strategic-plan-help-democrats-win-election https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-01/wikileaks-reveals-... I fail to see how that does not continue today.

dagenix 8y ago

First you have to figure out what a "consevative story" is. Then, you need to figure out why a search for "Trump News" shouldn't bury partisan hackery on both the left and the right. "News" used to / ought to mean something about a presentation of facts, not some particular party's preference for what it would like the facts to be.

traviscj 8y ago
I guess the world used to have less facts, and now they have to choose which ones to publish? Jk. Money talks, and outrage sells better than dry facts.

yostrovs 8y ago

You can open up a private tab in your browser, go to Google News and do a search for yourself.

takeda 8y ago
Looks like either all search engines are biased (not just Google) or Trump is.

loganekz 8y ago

This started from an article [1] posted on Drudge Report recently. [1] - https://pjmedia.com/trending/google-search-results-show-pervasive-anti-trump-anti-conservative-bias/ https://pjmedia.com/trending/google-search-results-show-perv...

giardini 8y ago

This came out the 25 August 2018: "96 Percent of Google Search Results for 'Trump' News Are from Liberal Media Outlets" https://pjmedia.com/trending/google-search-results-show-pervasive-anti-trump-anti-conservative-bias/ https://pjmedia.com/trending/google-search-results-show-perv... Google supported Clinton and threw resources behind her campaign: "However, one can't help but be skeptical considering that just before the 2016 presidential election, among the many leaks published by Wikileaks as part of its Podesta email campaign was Google's "strategic plan" to help democrats win the election and track voters." from https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-28/google-responds-trump-says-doesnt-bias-search-results https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-28/google-responds-tr... More at https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-01/wikileaks-reveals-googles-strategic-plan-help-democrats-win-election https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-01/wikileaks-reveals-... I fail to see how that does not continue today.