On: Google rewards reputable reporting, not left-wing politics

[andrenth]

Don’t we talk here all the time about how algorithms can be biased (even racist) due to programmers being biased in ways they may not even be aware of?

Then we must consider the possibility of bias in this case too.

[threatofrain → andrenth]

People talk about how your data’s perspective is biased, and how algorithms can lead to cyclic effects. Or in what manner does someone exercise racial bias in their data model?

[andrenth → threatofrain]

Surely the same can happen for politics? Especially when sources of data are preemptively blacklisted?

[Angostura → andrenth]

Agreed, it's a possibility. But pictures of upset people aren't evidence that it happened.