Big Tech’s Virtual Hammer

Is Big Tech big enough for free speech? Global social media platforms like Google and Facebook claim they’re valiantly protecting healthy public debate. Others see an insidiously toxic political agenda behind the emojis. Die Weltwoche investigates.

Have you ever noticed that the same, small pool of news organizations pop up in your Google searches?  It’s not your imagination or lack of Interwebs savvy.
New research released, last week, by Northwestern University confirms that the monster search engine relies on a narrow band of left leaning news sites for its “Top Stories” in what the researchers call “the prime real-estate at the top of search results.”  Nearly a quarter of those coveted spots routinely come from just three, liberal news organizations: the New York Times; Washington Post; with the around-the-clock, President Trump bashing CNN taking the decisive lead.
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