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you allege bias without giving any semblance of a factual proof, only an alleged motive.

manfredo 7y ago
The above author did not ask for specific examples. Prominent I have seen in the past, among others: * Attempting to depict high profile YouTubers as promoting Nazism despite the given examples unambiguously not promoting nazism in context. * Alleging YouTube pushes users towards right wing content when quantitative analysis shows left-leaning content outnumbers right leaning content more than 2:!, and a slim minority of recommendations going to right leaning content. Here's one recent example: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/technology/google-temp-workers.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/technology/google-temp-wo... The NYT is portraying Google's use of contractors as some nefarious and unfair system of two tiers of employees. In reality this not at all specific to Google, or even tech companies. Most companies use contractors for security, office maintenance, and recruiting. This is not new. Nor is it secret. Calling it a "shadow" workforce is deceptive. The pattern of portraying large tech companies (especially Google) in a negative light is a consistent pattern I have observed for years. Bias is inevitable when there is a conflict of interest like this. Established media and news organizations are losing huge amounts of money and influence to technology companies. Trusting them to be unbiased in their reporting face of such a conflict of interest is highly naive.
- IfOnlyYouKnew 7y ago
  So in your deranged conspiracy theory, the New York Times hates Uber because Uber is "a technology company" and therefore competes with the New York Times?
  - CryptoPunk 7y ago
    I can't speak to the validity of the conspiracy theory, but there is a stronger basis for it than that: The writers at the NYT are unionized and consequently derive above-market wages as a result of labor regulations. Gig economy companies like Uber undermine labor regulations, like the kind that empower unionized workforces like the NYT's. Still the theory has a pretty flimsy basis of support.
  - manfredo 7y ago
    If you think I am accusing the New York Times of engaging in a "deranged conspiracy theory" then you either have not read my comments, or you are deliberately stuffing words into my mouth. A conflict of interest is not a conspiracy theory. If you want to get a response from me, read my comments and make a response based on what I actually wrote.

The above author did not ask for specific examples. Prominent I have seen in the past, among others: * Attempting to depict high profile YouTubers as promoting Nazism despite the given examples unambiguously not promoting nazism in context. * Alleging YouTube pushes users towards right wing content when quantitative analysis shows left-leaning content outnumbers right leaning content more than 2:!, and a slim minority of recommendations going to right leaning content. Here's one recent example: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/technology/google-temp-workers.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/technology/google-temp-wo... The NYT is portraying Google's use of contractors as some nefarious and unfair system of two tiers of employees. In reality this not at all specific to Google, or even tech companies. Most companies use contractors for security, office maintenance, and recruiting. This is not new. Nor is it secret. Calling it a "shadow" workforce is deceptive. The pattern of portraying large tech companies (especially Google) in a negative light is a consistent pattern I have observed for years. Bias is inevitable when there is a conflict of interest like this. Established media and news organizations are losing huge amounts of money and influence to technology companies. Trusting them to be unbiased in their reporting face of such a conflict of interest is highly naive.

IfOnlyYouKnew 7y ago
So in your deranged conspiracy theory, the New York Times hates Uber because Uber is "a technology company" and therefore competes with the New York Times?
- CryptoPunk 7y ago
  I can't speak to the validity of the conspiracy theory, but there is a stronger basis for it than that: The writers at the NYT are unionized and consequently derive above-market wages as a result of labor regulations. Gig economy companies like Uber undermine labor regulations, like the kind that empower unionized workforces like the NYT's. Still the theory has a pretty flimsy basis of support.
- manfredo 7y ago
  If you think I am accusing the New York Times of engaging in a "deranged conspiracy theory" then you either have not read my comments, or you are deliberately stuffing words into my mouth. A conflict of interest is not a conspiracy theory. If you want to get a response from me, read my comments and make a response based on what I actually wrote.