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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1156616)8/13/2019 8:10:08 PM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573849
 
Of course, I realize that, but it's not like you think. Trump is actually doing very little that is different than what Obama did. But the Democrats call Trump a racist for doing the same exact things that Obama did. That shows you that the Democrats are just trying to create racial tension and "resist" Trump at every turn. It's not about solutions. It's about power. Trump has it and the Dems want it back.

In the mean time, we are watching as the liberals introduce bias into all the major social media platforms. The tech companies populated largely with California liberals realize quite correctly that they can win back power by skewing the dialogue so that all we see are liberal opinions and liberal talking points, but we have to work hard to get the other points of view. The evidence is mounting that Google is an evil company and they are engaged in massive bias.

You say I don't post evidence to back up my claims, but I post plenty of evidence. Actually read the below and please note that Northwestern University posted a white paper on Google bias, something that I have posted in the past and they reference that again in this article. There is no question Google is biased.

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Top Google Search Results on Dayton, El Paso Shootings Reveal Left Political Bias in Favored Media Sources


Google users who searched for various terms related to the recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, saw virtually no right-leaning news sources in the three “Top Stories” results that Google shows as the top results for news-related queries, according to a study by AllSides.com.

Instead, Google returned results favoring the left-leaning CNN, the study showed.

AllSides, which attempts to provide balanced perspectives by mixing sources biased left, right, and center, searched words such as “Shooting,” “El Paso,” “Dayton,” and “Guns” multiple times on three days between Aug. 5 and Aug. 7 in the aftermath of the shootings.

Of all the “Top Stories” results, 70 percent were from sources on the left, while about 18 percent were from sources AllSides considers to have center bias. Some of those, such as NPR, USA Today, and The Associated Press, have been characterized by others as left-leaning, including in the subjective chart created by investigative journalist and TV host Sharyl Attkisson.

About 8 percent of the results came from sources that haven’t yet been rated for bias by AllSides. The remaining 4 percent came from sources biased to the right.

The study noted that a quarter of all the results came from a single source—CNN. Second was The New York Times with 14 percent. Third was The Washington Post at 7 percent.

The search for “Trump” was skewed the least, showing around 57 percent of sources biased to the left, around 35 percent to the right, and the rest in the center.

AllSides acknowledged that the study used a small sample size, but noted that it “tracks closely with prior data on Google bias,” including its own report on Google News bias from last year ( pdf) and the data put forward by researchers from the Northwestern University.

AllSides said the results of its study don’t mean that Google is “suppressing voices from the right” in relation to the shootings intentionally.

“It may be that a lack of right-leaning news media overall accounts for the huge difference between left and right-leaning appearances in Google News, or is perhaps an unintended consequence of Google’s algorithm,” it said.

Google has denied infusing political bias in its products but acknowledged that Google News gives preference to news sources the company deems “credible.”

The company’s workforce skews heavily left, with more than 90 percent of their political donations between 2004 and 2018 going to Democrats, according to data collected by Business Insider and political data firm GovPredict. It showed a similar situation at other tech companies, including Facebook, Apple, and Amazon.

Evidence of BiasIntentional or not, the evidence that tech companies favor left-leaning politics in their products has been growing for years. Internal documents, interviews with insiders, and hidden camera footage have shown that Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Pinterest suppress content using vague, sometimes secret criteria that reflect the political preferences of the companies.

Robert Epstein, a psychologist who has spent years researching Google’s influence on its users, has published research showing that just by deciding the sequence of top search results, the company can sway undecided voters.

This led to 2.6 million votes shifting in the 2016 presidential election to Trump’s opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Epstein determined. He warned that in 2020, if companies such as Google and Facebook all support the same candidate, they will be able to shift 15 million votes—well beyond the margin most presidents have won by.

Trump has reportedly been working on an executive order to address politically biased censorship by social media companies.

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