Google News May Be Biased Towards Conservatives
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In the world of automated aggregation, can there be a general tendency to lean to one side or t’other of the political spectrum? Perhaps. Online Journalism Review takes Google Chief Scientist Krishna Bharat to task on why this might be.
[A] possible factor… is that small, alternative news sites have no hesitancy about using “John Kerry” in a headline, while most mainstream news sites eschew first names in headlines. The inadvertent result is that the smaller sites score better results with the search engines.
