{"id":88132,"date":"2024-03-20T04:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=88132"},"modified":"2024-03-19T18:58:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T22:58:15","slug":"googles-unmissable-leftward-biases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/03\/20\/googles-unmissable-leftward-biases\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s unmissable leftward biases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomknighton.substack.com\/p\/heads-should-roll\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Knighton<\/a> on a recent <em>New York Post<\/em> article calling out Google for their strong political biases and how they inform everything that Google and its subsidiaries and affiliates do:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GoogleCuffs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GoogleCuffs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"110\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-47796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GoogleCuffs.jpg 288w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GoogleCuffs-150x57.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Once, the company was well-known for having the phrase &#8220;Don&#8217;t be evil&#8221; painted on a wall in their headquarters. It&#8217;s a noble sentiment, but apparently, it&#8217;s now more like &#8220;<strike><span style=\"color:red\">Don&#8217;t<\/span><\/strike> be evil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty clear after what we learned from the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/03\/18\/tech\/google-interfered-in-us-elections-41-times-since-2008-report\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New York Post<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Google has been putting its thumb on the scale to help Democratic candidates win the presidency in the last four election cycles during which it censored Republicans, according to a right-leaning media watchdog.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Media Research Center published a report alleging 41 instances of &#8220;election interference&#8221; by the search engine since 2008.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The MRC published a report accusing Google of having &#8220;utilized its power to help push to electoral victory the most liberal candidates&#8230;while targeting their opponents for censorship.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The report comes weeks after AllSides conducted an analysis which found that news aggregator <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/02\/23\/business\/google-news-bias-skewed-even-further-left-in-2023-63-from-liberal-media-sources-only-6-from-the-right-analysis\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google News skewed even more off the charts in 2023<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Google has also come under fire after its <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/02\/21\/business\/googles-ai-chatbot-gemini-makes-diverse-images-of-founding-fathers-popes-and-vikings-so-woke-its-unusable\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gemini AI image generator produced &#8220;woke&#8221;-inspired and historically inaccurate images<\/a> such as black Vikings, female pope and Native Americans among the Founding Fathers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, Google denies the claims and someone close to the company took issue with the methodology used to detect this supposed interference.<\/p>\n<p>But the truth of the matter is that there&#8217;s absolutely no reason to believe Google on this because we&#8217;ve seen enough of it previously to know better.<\/p>\n<p>For example, YouTube has a profoundly leftward bias. The site is notorious for silencing right-wing voices while allowing leftists to get away with trampling community standards willy-nilly. YouTube is owned by Google, which means they&#8217;re at least tacitly endorsing the strategy.<\/p>\n<p>From there, it&#8217;s not difficult to see the mothership taking on a similar role, if not originating it. They&#8217;re just able to hide it easier.<\/p>\n<p>But even there, we can see it.<\/p>\n<p>I use Google&#8217;s news feed regularly, particularly for my work at Bearing Arms. It&#8217;s common for me to look up &#8220;gun rights&#8221; and the first article that shows up, unless I set it for the most recent stories, be one treating them as a negative thing.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, I have no doubt that Google is playing favorites.<\/p>\n<p>The worst part is that there isn&#8217;t anything that can be done through the legal system as far as I&#8217;m aware. But that doesn&#8217;t mean someone there didn&#8217;t realize what they are doing is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Most probably didn&#8217;t, though. They believe the Holy Progressive Cause is so vital, so unerringly good, that they can and should do anything to serve it. That includes displaying a staggering degree of bias in the service of what you believe to be the greater good, your business be damned.<\/p>\n<p>But they knew it would be considered wrong by a great many people, which is why they&#8217;re hiding it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Knighton on a recent New York Post article calling out Google for their strong political biases and how they inform everything that Google and its subsidiaries and affiliates do: Once, the company was well-known for having the phrase &#8220;Don&#8217;t be evil&#8221; painted on a wall in their headquarters. 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