Google News' bias has gotten more pronounced since 2022.
63% of articles came from media outlets AllSides rates as Lean Left or Left. Just 6% were from the right.
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In 2023, Google News mostly curated articles from @CNN (Lean Left bias) and @nytimes (Lean Left) over a 2-week period.
Just 6% of all articles came from outlets on the right — with the most-curated conservative source being @FoxNews (Right), which made up 5%.
AllSides also analyzed Google News in 2022.
While Google curated 13% less Left-rated outlets in 2023, it curated 16% 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 Lean Left outlets.
The share of Right-rated outlets increased very slightly, by 3%.
The overall bias was still Leaning Left.
For search terms like "𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯" and "𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯," results were also mostly from Lean Left outlets.
Outlets on the right never accounted for more than 12% of results, except for the term “𝘉𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯.”
Back in the days leading up to the 2022 midterms, AllSides found the search term “𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯” returned no Google News results from Center-, Lean Right- or Right-rated media outlets.
AllSides has analyzed the bias of multiple news aggregators, and found most of them Lean Left.
Just because news is aggregated from various sources does not mean you are getting a full picture.
View the full AllSides bias analysis of Google News here: allsides.com/blog/has-googl…
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The AllSides News Aggregator Bias Chart™ shows most aggregators Lean Left.
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