{"id":346353,"date":"2023-03-27T10:40:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T14:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/?p=346353"},"modified":"2023-03-26T23:58:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T03:58:03","slug":"googles-evil-monopoly-under-fire-after-new-study-shows-profound-political-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/2023\/03\/googles-evil-monopoly-under-fire-after-new-study-shows-profound-political-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s \u2018Evil\u2019 Monopoly Under Fire After New Study Shows Profound Political Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Kyle Becker, Becker News<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Google once had the motto \u201cdon\u2019t be evil.\u201d The Big Tech giant has long\u00a0abandoned<\/a>\u00a0this motto, as well as any shred of ethics.<\/p>\n

But if The Department of Justice (DOJ) and a coalition of eight states get their way, its parent company Alphabet is going to be forced to play by a fair set of rules.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA federal judge on Friday set a\u00a0fast-paced schedule<\/a>\u00a0in the U.S. Justice Department\u2019s antitrust\u00a0lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0challenging Google LLC\u2019s digital advertising technology practices, moving the case along more quickly than either side had proposed,\u201d Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cU.S. Magistrate Judge John Anderson in Alexandria, Virginia, after a brief hearing issued an order setting Jan. 18, 2024, as the date when Alphabet Inc\u2019s (GOOGL.O) Google and Justice Department lawyers must disclose factual evidence and experts reports,\u201d the report added. \u201cLawyers for both sides had sought at least five additional months to prepare for trial.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe faster pace of the litigation could put additional pressure on both sides, but particularly on Google in building its defense, based on what the company in a court filing called an \u2018\u201dimbalance\u201d in the proceedings,\u201d the report adds.<\/p>\n

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The DOJ lawsuit was filed along with the attorney generals of California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Virginia.<\/p>\n

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In the\u00a0suit<\/a>, filed in federal court in Virginia, the Justice Department argues Google has \u201ccorrupted legitimate competition\u201d in the online ad space through a \u201csystematic campaign to seize control of\u201d online tools used for digital advertising. It is seeking to break up Google\u2019s ad monopoly under the\u00a0federal\u00a0Sherman Act<\/a>\u2014which prohibits monopolization and the attempt or conspiracy to monopolize goods or services.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGoogle, a single company with pervasive conflicts of interest, now controls the technology used by nearly every major website publisher to offer advertising space for sale, the leading tools used by advertisers to buy that advertising space, and the largest ad exchange that matches publishers with advertisers each time that ad space is sold,\u201d the lawsuit states.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The lawsuit alleges that Google has bought out its ad tech competitors to \u201cwield its dominance\u201d online. The Big Tech juggernaut compels advertisers to use its service and \u201cdisrupt[s] their ability to use competing products effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGoogle is a monopolist and engages in a wide variety of conduct that only a monopolist can accomplish,\u201d the lawsuit states. \u201cThe Supreme Court has warned that there are such things as antitrust evils. This litigation will establish that Google is guilty of such antitrust evils, and it seeks to ensure that Google won\u2019t be evil anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s going to be a tough task. In addition to de-listing and burying outlets, such as Becker News, Slay News, the Gateway Pundit, Trending Politics, and other center-right websites on its search engine, it also coerces editorial decisions made on websites by withdrawing Google Ads availability if a publisher comments on \u201cforbidden\u201d subjects, such as the Russia-Ukraine War, the Covid pandemic response, mRNA vaccines, or election integrity, in a manner that does not promote state-approved narratives.<\/p>\n

This is a creeping digital totalitarianism, where a Big Tech company acts as a \u2018de facto\u2019 dictatorship over online territory. It lords over smaller companies with the aid of government officials it lobbies and\u00a0politicians<\/a>\u00a0whose favor it intends to buy.<\/p>\n

Google is not even running a \u201cbenevolent dictatorship.\u201d There is recent non-partisan research showing just how profound the bias runs at Google.<\/p>\n

According to an\u00a0AllSides study<\/a>, Google News heavily promotes left-leaning media outlets\u2014both in the news articles featured on its homepage and in the search results for specific topics. It also buries right-leaning outlets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cImbalanced or heavily biased news\u00a0search\u00a0results can have a negative impact on our democracy and elections,\u201d Julie Mastrine, director of marketing and media bias ratings at AllSides, told\u00a0The Daily Signal<\/a>\u00a0in a statement. \u201cWhen people cannot access the full range of views on political and societal issues, they are subject to partisan manipulation and cannot truly decide for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe AllSides balanced newsfeed solves the problem of biased online news aggregation by curating articles from the left, center, and right, so people can get diverse perspectives and think for themselves,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

A Google spokesperson downplayed the report in comments to The Daily Signal.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur systems do not take political ideology into account, and we go to extraordinary lengths to build our products for everyone,\u201d the spokesperson claimed. \u201cThis study\u2019s methodology is deeply flawed. It cherry-picked a few topics and ran for a very brief period of time, presenting a misleading picture of Google News.\u201d<\/p>\n

John Gable, CEO of AllSides, told The Daily Signal that\u00a0Google News<\/a>\u2018 biased results could be \u201can accident\u201d of Google\u2019s algorithms or a byproduct of a slant in overall internet news content.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is possible that an informal policy or the preferences of\u00a0Google News leadership or employees intentionally support delivering a certain political bias in its news aggregation,\u201d Gable said. \u201cIt is also possible that the biased results could be an accident of the algorithms and systems\u00a0Google\u00a0uses, or it could reflect the bias of internet news content overall.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt might also suggest that one political side has been more effective at online communication and marketing than another. Finally, it could just be profit motive, either intentional or accidental, in which news from one political side\u00a0leads to more views, clicks, and ad revenue than others,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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