Google’s already left-leaning news aggregation platform, Google News, will fall even further off the charts in 2023, according to a recent analysis.
media company AllSides’ latest bias analysis We found that 63% of articles published on Google News over a two-week period came from left-wing media outlets. This is a 2% increase from 2022, when 61% of the aggregator’s articles came from liberal media outlets.
In contrast, Google News covered 6% of right-wing news sources in 2023, a relative improvement from just 3% the year before.
AllSides looked at nearly 500 curated articles on the Google News homepage and found that 16% came from the left-leaning CNN and 12% from the similarly liberal New York Times. did.
Of the top 10 news sites compiled by Google News, eight are left-leaning, including Yahoo!. News, CBS, Associated Press, NBC, according to AllSides.
The only two companies that aren’t biased toward Democratic viewers are Reuters, which AllSides believes is central, and conservative news outlet Fox News.
Of the 500 articles AllSides analyzed, only 6%, or 30, were linked to Reuters. Even fewer are his 5%, or 25 articles, originally published on his website on Fox.
More worrying data showed that Google News consistently showed more left-leaning articles than right-leaning articles on six hotly debated topics: abortion, climate change, the economy, the election, immigration, and Biden.
According to AllSides, articles from progressive news outlets accounted for more than half of the results for every search term except “immigration.”
Excluding the term “Biden,” right-hand outlets never accounted for more than 12% of search results.
“Just because news is aggregated from different sources doesn’t mean you’re getting the full picture of different perspectives,” AllSides concludes, adding that Bing News, Apple News, NewsBreak, and other news aggregators He pointed out that there is a similar pattern in services. Yahoo! news.
Representatives for Google did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
AllSides’ findings come on the heels of another Google product, Gemini, an artificial intelligence-powered text conversion software, being dragged into social media for rendering “fully woke” images It was done.
When asked to create an image from a simple prompt about a subset of people, Gemini will choose a factually or historically inaccurate image, such as a black Viking, a female pope, or a Native American among the Founding Fathers. I spat it out.
For example, when asked to “create an image of a pope,” Geminis don’t provide a photo of one of the 266 popes in history (all white men), but rather wear the sacred vestments. provided photos of a Southeast Asian woman and a black man. .
Another question sent by the Post earlier this week asked for a representative image of the “Founding Fathers of 1789,” but that too is far from reality, resulting in what appears to be a version of the U.S. Constitution. It featured images of Black people and Native Americans signing signatures.
Google has since admitted that its AI imaging tool was “off the mark” and suspended the technology.
All the while, the head of the “absurdly woke” Gemini, Google executive Jack Kraczyk, tweeted that “white privilege is very real” and that “terrible racism” is rampant in America. He has been criticized for saying that he has done so.
Krawczyk, 40, has set his X feed to private, but screenshots of his alleged tweets, most of which were created before he was hired by Google in 2020, clearly show revealed ultra-progressive bias.
For example, on January 20, 2021, Mr. Krawczyk commented on President Biden’s inaugural address that he “acknowledged systemic racism” and “It is the world’s dream to repeat American ideals, but we need to address them.” He is said to have called it “one of the greatest of all time.” We’ll earn it ourselves. ”
The Mountain View, California-based tech giant vowed to upgrade its AI tools to “address recent issues with Gemini’s image generation capabilities.”
It was not immediately clear when Gemini’s image generator would be up and running again. Meanwhile, the chatbot is still working.
