The study shows articles from publications with left-wing readers get about five times as many views as those with a right-leaning readership. “Google Top Stories box impressions tend to have a more left-leaning than right-leaning inclination,” researchers Daniel Trielli and Nicholas Diakopoulos wrote in the study. Even when accounting for stories that weren’t rated as having right or left readers, the researchers say the trend is still clear. To be clear: our research does not say that Google prefers any type of ideology when it comes to sources. “We have no insight into the methodology these researchers used,” a Google spokesperson wrote in an email to the National Post.

Source: National Post May 15, 2019 17:12 UTC