Hector Martin

This is extra funny amid claims that 'right wing' publications are being discriminated against.

Bias conclusions presume both options are equally desirable and the bias is attributable to partisanship and not just page quality. Would it be biased for Google to return spherical Earth results over flat Earth results? No, it wouldn't.

Forgot to address the "desireable" part. A better example wwould be something under question like nuclear vs solar/wind power. How would google decide what kind of pages are more desirable to show for people? I personally don't want google to become the arbiter of "truth"

But they aren't "deciding". They use signals. Sometimes those signals align with an individual's views, sometimes they don't. What we definitely don't want is some kind of dictated "equal representation" nonsense criteria to make results "fair".

For example, it's logical and desirable that Google results should favor true statements. Fact checkers have established that, statistically, Republicans lie more than Democrats. Therefore, if Google favors truth, it would *implicitly* favor Democrats, not due to any bias per se.

To get a little pedantic, those Republican and Democrat politicians that have been reviewed have produced those statistics. It would be challenging and interesting to determine the results for general population on a large scale using fMRI.