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Re:Audit suggests Google favors a small number of major news... by rat87 on Monday May 13, 2019 @05:06PM (#19903960)
This is basically backwards

Infowars never has the best coverage

Because it's a at best a crazy conspiracy site, and at worst a far right conspiracy site.

This is actually a massive problem with YouTube in which Google optimizes for time spent watching and ad time which drives a lot of people to far right and conspiratorial content. And a lot of people are complain I that Google needs to fix thay

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Re:Audit suggests Google favors a small number of major news... by burfog on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @06:22AM (#19908236)
Comparing views held in 1994 with views held in 2017, it is clear that nothing is driving a lot of people to the far right. Quite the opposite is happening. A sort of relativity may be in play here, making it seem as if other people are moving to the right if the observer is moving to the left.

Histograms of the change, for each party and year: https://imgur.com/QJd2gRB

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