Audit: Google Heavily Favors CNN and Left Media in Mass Shooting Coverage

Bias / August 7th, 2019 / By AllSides Staff

RESEARCH REPORT The days following two tragic mass shootings in Dayton, OH and El Paso, TX were extremely active for newsrooms nationwide. But readers who used Google to learn about the shootings may have seen an overwhelming majority of news from left-leaning media sources — CNN, the New...
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Media Bias, Google Bias, Bias Against Conservatives, Google, Mass Shootings

Project Veritas Story on Google Bias Reveals Left/Right Divide

Bias / June 25th, 2019 / By Julie Mastrine

This morning, YouTube, which is owned by Google, removed a video created by Project Veritas, a nonprofit founded by conservative James O’Keefe that is dedicated to exposing corruption. The video showed undercover footage of Google executive Jen Gennai discussing the tech giant’s search...
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Google Bias, Media Bias, Google News Bias, Google, Bias Against Conservatives, Fake News

Audit Finds Evidence of Google's Bias Toward These Media Outlets

News / June 4th, 2019 / By Julie Mastrine

A new audit shows Google is biased toward a small number of major media outlets — and most of them have a Left-leaning political bias. One-sided information isn’t healthy for democracy, yet the world's most popular source of news and information displays a major bias. Back in October,...
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Google Bias, Media Bias, AllSides Media Bias Ratings, Google, Google News Bias, Technology

Media Bias Fuels Political Violence in America. Can We Change?

Bias / November 1st, 2018 / By Julie Mastrine

A string of violent incidents in October further illuminated political polarization in America, raising serious concerns about how media bias contributes to hateful division — and how we must change this to heal our divide. In just the last two weeks, multiple incidents of political...
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Media Bias, Polarization, Political Polarization, Violence, Violence In America, Elections, Technology, Social Media, Google Bias, Google