{"id":1712136,"date":"2022-10-26T13:50:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T17:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1712136"},"modified":"2022-10-26T14:04:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T18:04:13","slug":"newsweek-runs-laughable-fact-check-of-study-proving-bias-in-google-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newsweek-runs-laughable-fact-check-of-study-proving-bias-in-google-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsweek Runs Laughable &#8220;Fact Check&#8221; of Study Proving Bias in Google Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnewsweek-runs-laughable-fact-check-of-study-proving-bias-in-google-search%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1712136&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The geniuses at Newsweek tried to toss the leftists at Google a lifeline by issuing a ridiculous \u201cfact check\u201d of MRC Free Speech America\u2019s latest study showing Google manipulating search results to benefit Democrats in top senate races.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" class=\"image-blog_image_50_ img-fluid blog-img\" data-insert-attach=\"{\" id \/> MRC President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc.org\/staff\/l-brent-bozell-iii\">Brent Bozell<\/a> had a one-line response to Newsweek: \u201cRemember Newsweek was sold for a dollar. Someone overpaid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Newsweek\u2019s so-called \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/fact-check-did-study-prove-google-censors-republicans-key-senate-races-1754655?amp=1\">fact check\u2019 whined<\/a> that the MRC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/gabriela-pariseau\/2022\/10\/25\/google-caught-manipulating-search-buries-gop\">study<\/a>, which caught Google burying 10 of 12 Senate Republican Party candidates\u2019 campaign websites while highlighting their opponents campaign sites in organic search results, \u201cdoes not provide any definitive evidence to suggest Google deliberately alters their algorithm for partisan effect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not only did the outlet not reach out to the Media Research Center for comment, it chose to leave out core elements of the study that upend Newsweek\u2019s lazy work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bozell excoriated Newsweek and Google\u2019s gaslighting: \u201cGoogle&#8217;s response and Newsweek&#8217;s attack on our study are predictable for Google and Newsweek.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newsweek had parroted a Google spokesperson\u2019s claim that the MRC Free Speech America \u201c\u2018report is designed to mislead, testing uncommon search terms that people rarely use.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The so-called fact-check\u2019s \u201cruling\u201d? \u201cUnverified,\u201d claimed Newsweek, which is a cute way of saying it isn\u2019t really a fact-check. The outlet even conceded based on an expert it cited that Google is notorious for its \u201clack of transparency\u201d when it comes to its algorithm.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" class=\"image-blog_image_100_ img-fluid blog-img\" data-insert-attach=\"{\" id \/> Newsweek didn\u2019t even bother mentioning that the MRC Free Speech America study researched the same parameters on two other search engines: Bing and DuckDuckGo. When MRC Free Speech America researchers performed the same searches on those two search engines, the results were more neutral.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bozell contiued ripping Newsweek and Google: \u201cIf DuckDuckGo and Bing can get it right, then the self-proclaimed experts at Google should be able to do the same. Ironically, Newsweek makes our case. It is true. We don&#8217;t know the reason for these skewed results, and that&#8217;s the point. It&#8217;s because of Google&#8217;s lack of transparency. The results are accurate. It&#8217;s up to them to\u00a0 explain why the results are what they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" class=\"image-blog_image_50_ img-fluid blog-img\" data-insert-attach=\"{\" id \/> Newsweek complained that \u201c[t]he study did not account for a number of other key variables, including location, device used and <strong>user&#8217;s search history.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the MRC did account for user \u201csearch history\u201d in the study, which Newsweek would have known if it had bothered reading the study. The Methodology, which is described in the study in the executive summary and at the end of the study, clearly states that the MRC Free Speech America researchers \u201ccreated an algorithm to automate this process in a clean environment.<\/p>\n<p>A \u2018clean environment\u2019 allows for <strong>organic search to populate results without the influence of prior search history<\/strong> and tracking cookies.\u201d [Emphasis added.]\n<p>MRC Free Speech America reached out to fact-check author and Newsweek Weekend Staff Writer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/authors\/andrew-stanton\">Andrew Stanton<\/a> for comment, but received no response as of the publication of this article.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Conservatives are under attack.<\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em><em>Contact <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/contact\"><em>Newsweek<\/em><\/a> and demand that it retract its bogus non-fact-check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The geniuses at Newsweek tried to toss the leftists at Google a lifeline by issuing a ridiculous \u201cfact check\u201d of MRC Free Speech America\u2019s latest study showing Google manipulating search<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1712139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1712139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}