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For the person about to reply that you can “hide outlets”: doing so only marginally improves the experience. I’ve personally hidden over 20 outlets with overtly
by no-dr-onboard 4y ago
For the person about to reply that you can “hide outlets”: doing so only marginally improves the experience. I’ve personally hidden over 20 outlets with overtly leftist biased writing. My feed is now only obscure local channels that are owned by the same company. Google News refuses to permit socially conservative viewpoints (Fox News doesn’t make that list for me) to make up a user’s personalized feed.
- assttoasstmgr 4y agoThey shouldn't be promoting any news source over another. A true unbiased news aggregator should spit out articles like a bingo cage. Once you rank sources, or include opinion masquerading as news, it's manipulation of the media. When you deliberately bury all sources you disagree with, you are de facto creating an echo chamber. It's enraging that they tried to pass themselves off as unbiased with the vague statement about the ordering of the articles being "chosen by a computer program"; I noticed that statement no longer appears.
- lovelearning 4y agoIn my country, it does the opposite — full of content from rightwing publications. Perhaps it's not Google injecting its bias but an emergent outcome of the ideology prevalent in society and media in our respective countries.
- mtberatwork 4y ago> Google News refuses to permit socially conservative viewpoints (Fox News doesn’t make that list for me) to make up a user’s personalized feed. This isn't true. I just looked up a few conservative publications, from the center-right to the heavy-on-conspiracy and they all show up as available news sources.