Quote:Google's left-leaning media bias revealed: Academic study exposes how search engine massively over-promotes results from liberal news websites over right

• Stories from only 20 media outlets were featured in Google's Top Stories box in November 2017
• 62 percent of those outlets were considered to be left-leaning media sources
• CNN accounted for 10 percent of the news promoted, The New York Times made up 6.5 percent and The Washington Post accounted for 5.6 percent
• By contrast, Fox stories made up only three percent of the 6,302 articles
• Google uses an algorithm to decide what goes in its Top Stories box
• It is based largely on the popularity of a topic or of a viewpoint
• The search engine has denied that it deliberately promotes left-leaning sites
• It now has unprecedented power over what is promoted and how much traffic it sends to sites given Facebook's recent scale back on news