Google News is heavily biased – but it’s not rigged

Published September 5, 2018 4:26pm ET



On August 28, President Trump tweeted that Google search results are “rigged” against him, and that Google is “suppressing voices of conservatives.” Is this true?

AllSides.com conducted an in-depth analysis of Google News on the day of Trump’s tweet. Our analysis shows Google News was heavily biased on that day, giving the Left 13 times more coverage than the Right and more than twice as much as the Center. But we saw no evidence Google News is intentionally rigged.

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