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→ 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.
Google News’ bias has gotten more pronounced since 2022.
63% of articles came from media outlets AllSides rates as Lean Left or Left. Just 6% were from the right.
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— AllSides (@AllSidesNow) February 22, 2024
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!
→ Bill Ackman doubles down on Business Insider vendetta
Bill Ackman’s vendetta against Business Insider shows no sign of slowing down. After the publication produced a piece detailing his wife Neri Oxman’s alleged plagiarism, the billionaire hedge fund manager tweeted out several jeremiads (maybe that 240-character thing had a purpose) at BI and its parent company Axel Springer threatening legal action. Now he has written a 77-page demand letter that… threatens legal action if BI does not retract its article.
According to Ackman: “these individuals did not question that Neri and I had been defamed, but rather they explained that Axel Springer has been perhaps the strongest long-term supporter of the state of Israel of any media organization, and also an important advocate against antisemitism.” What began as a noble quest to address antisemitism on America’s campuses has descended into something rather petty. As one former PM might have said, it’s time for Ackman to put up or shut up.
→ Is the tide turning in British academia?
A pleasure to join @epkaufm as well as @GoodwinMJ last night to launch Eric’s new Centre for Heterodox Social Science at the @UniOfBuckingham. To save higher education in the Anglosphere we need new institutions like CHSS! https://t.co/hLhpqAxacI Thanks to @LegatumInst for… pic.twitter.com/eE1KKQUXNO
— Niall Ferguson (@nfergus) February 23, 2024
Here’s a ray of light for these benighted times in academia. Last night, Prof. Eric Kaufmann launched what he claims is the first explicitly non progressive-dominated social science research centre in Britain. The University of Buckingham’s Centre for Heterodox Social Science promises to promote open inquiry, viewpoint diversity and constructive disagreement in academic research — all of which is in painfully short supply at universities.
Past research by Kaufmann has found that one in three British academics would not hire a known Leave supporter for a job, and three in four conservative social scientists at elite universities self-censor. Perhaps this centre will go some way towards addressing that. We certainly live in strange times when it’s more acceptable to be a communist than a Leave voter at university…
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Subscribe@unherd what can those of us do who pay for the app and never get to see this content?
The News page in Google is accessed from the initial opening page via the 9 point icon at the top right hand corner. There is a line with labels for “GMail” and “Images” in front of the 9 point icon. This icon leads to a page with a selection icon for “Google News”.
I too rarely access it because the egregious MSN comes up first.
Google Israel on Google News. Most is Aljazzira.
Why do you want to see it? It’s 90% propaganda.
Dear Sir, Am I the only one ?
Is it just me that can’t see the ‘news roundup’ ? I see the strap line, I see the picture, but if I click the link, nothing, nada, nessuno (since they started). Maybe it’s an I.Q test thingy, which, obviously, I’ve failed miserably.
Neither can I Tom. I assumed it was something my end. Sharing you miserable failure.
Clearly there are lots of us who cannot see this in the app. I have raised with their CS but please do as well! In app click My Unherd and then Report an issue, near the bottom.
Yes Ian – agreed. I can never open this particular page either
I really think it might be time to ditch all things Google. It’s all gone horribly wrong.
Musk has said that X are working on launching an email service, which may take some business away from them.
Aye. Lord Google is a jealous and wrathful master. Render unto that lord the data that are due, no more.
Few people realise how vulnerable Google’s business model is. It depends on pay-per-click. If everyone appalled by this sinister organisation were to spend just a few minutes every day clicking on commercial links without buying anything then pretty soon advertisers would start to withdraw. Then the billions that Google takes out of the British economy whilst paying virtually no tax and, to add insult to injury, interfering in our democratic process, could be spent here on healthcare, instead of on Caribbean islands and private jets.
I’m not seeing any news roundup, I also use app and pay a subscription, is this column not yet available?
For those who want to understand the nature of Bill Ackman’s fully justified anger against Business Insider, i recommend the latter part of his Lex Fridman podcast.
Without robust debate in a civil society, democracy becomes a farce. People lack the diverse perspectives from which to make informed judgements. A One Party media world favors that one party that democracy effectively becomes a farce.