Google News Bias

An organization that represents more than 2,000 news publishers sent letters on Tuesday to federal agencies, urging them to launch an investigation into Google after the tech behemoth began removing links to California-based news outlets.

The move from Google, which drew swift backlash, came over a proposed law that would require tech companies to pay for news content.

An estimated 280 million users depend on Google News, a news aggregator that sources from over 50,000 outlets worldwide. However, a recent study by AllSides Media suggests that these sources might not be as unbiased as users believe.

During a two-week analysis, AllSides discovered that left-leaning sources constituted 63% of Google News content in 2023, a slight increase from 61% in the previous year. Conversely, right-leaning outlets represented 6% in 2023, up from 3% in 2022.

An analysis by the news media watchdog group AllSides Technology finds roughly 63% of stories last year on the Google News were from "left and left-leaning news sources." 

In the new analysis released Thursday, 937 stories were reviewed from Oct. 30 to Nov. 14, 2023. 

The group found the 2023 percentage was up from 61% in 2022. 

→ Google News bias is getting worse

As if Google’s anti-white AI bot wasn’t evidence enough, new research has found that Google News’s bias also veers Left. The latest AllSides Google News bias analysis found that 63% of articles which appeared on the news aggregator over a two-week period were from liberal media outlets in 2023, marking a 2% uptick from the year previous.

In fairness to the tech giant, Google News doubled the number of articles from Right-wing sources this year from a whopping 3% to 6%. Now that’s progress!

Google’s already left-leaning news aggregator platform Google News skewed even more off the charts in 2023, according to a recent analysis.

Media company AllSides’ latest bias analysis found that 63% of articles that appeared on Google News over two weeks were from left-leaning media outlets — a 2% increase from 2022, when 61% of articles on the aggregator were from liberal outlets.

By contrast, the number of right-leaning news sources picked up by Google News in 2023 was 6%, a relative improvement from the paltry 3% the previous year.

By now you are familiar with the controversy over Google's AI being biased against White men. 

The bias is so bad, so obvious, and so embarrassing for Google that they have actually throttled Gemini from generating images of people until they can make the program at least LOOK less biased. If you aren't familiar with the controversy, you should definitely read John's piece on the issue. 

“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.