Bing News Joins Google and Other News
Aggregators in Fueling Polarization | Opinion
Newsweek,
by
John Gable
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
5/5/2023 2:54:39 PM
People who rely on major news aggregators like News, Bing News and Yahoo! News for their political news are being ensconced inside filter bubbles, and this drives greater polarization, division and dysfunction in society overall.
Filter bubbles occur when someone is exposed only to one-perspective, or only to news that confirms his or her existing beliefs. repeatedly shows that when people only see one side, they become less tolerant of people and ideas that are different then they are. We, as a society, grow more divided and less accepting of each other.
Multiple analyses have found that major news aggregators are heavily biased.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
formerNYer 5/5/2023 3:01:25 PM (No. 1463463)
Newsweak doesn't include itself in fueling polarization. They never wrote a positive artilcle on DJT and never wrote a bad one for poopy-pants the retard.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
seamusm 5/5/2023 3:25:01 PM (No. 1463473)
Newsweek, Oh Please! You are a little late to the party to start confessing your own sins. And why should anyone start to believe you now? However true it might be that reading one-sided news fuels division, I'd suggest you first stop with YOUR lying and then I'll consider reading Newsweek again.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 5/5/2023 3:56:12 PM (No. 1463493)
My theory is: The second thing that the left kills (assuming you survive their abortions) is introspection and the ability to grasp irony. (the first thing they kill is the sense of humor).
That NewSpeak Newsweek excludes themselves from their list is more evidence that my theory is correct.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Birddog 5/5/2023 4:06:01 PM (No. 1463496)
I only use News aggregator sites...Lucienne.com, Ace of Spades, not even Drudge anymore.
They are the ONLY places that will lead me to the "Not the Major" news articles, void of the sports/entertainment /celebrity crapola that I have zero interest in.
Major plus factor, the discussion/debate aspects wherein often "The Rest of the Story" comes to light.
I was banned from ALL social media after the 2020 election, but not for election stuff, I dared to posit that the Kenosha Kid had only fired in self defense, that was enough for Fazbuk/insta/twit, redit, you name it to all block/ban me within a week. Facebuk took down every page my name was attached to, even just as a moderator, sailing, fishing, hunting, dogtraining, woodworking, travel, highschool reunion? No matter they removed them all.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 5/5/2023 4:18:42 PM (No. 1463503)
Lucianne and Whatfinger are two aggregators I use. Left Drudge years ago. I also have a Yahoo email address and they have started sending me their (biased) stories without my permission. Anybody know how to unsubscribe?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/5/2023 4:20:11 PM (No. 1463506)
Yahoo headlines are obviously written by brainwashed, lefty brats, who tell the reader what they think of their subject. I don't read any of them, as I decide what I think, not Yahoo. Yahoo is a huge embarrassment to Verizon, who paid a dollar for them.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
chagrined 5/5/2023 4:26:13 PM (No. 1463510)
I cringe every time I check my email on yahoo. What a bunch of wahoos doesn't even begin to cover it. Heaven help you if you have the temerity to read any of their "news" articles, much less the comments after any article. Talk about a buncha brainwashed wingnuts!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Ken M. 5/5/2023 6:45:53 PM (No. 1463571)
Lots of other ways to search. My usual is StartPage: https://www.startpage.com
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 5/5/2023 8:55:24 PM (No. 1463657)
When & how did “then” become the accepted replacement for “than”? I used to think it was a typo. Obviously not.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JimBob 5/6/2023 12:12:04 AM (No. 1463716)
I realized a long time ago that the total news feed is like a fire-hose stream.
You can read all the news just as easily as drinking all the water from a fire hose.
So... where to start? Where to read? What part of the firehose stream do you care to drink?
I long ago abandoned ABC/NBC/CBS/NPR/NYSlymes/WaPooPoo. I took one look at Google and Yahoo and turned away.
The articles just... did not agree with the facts, where I knew the facts.
I find that Lucianne, with it's many contributors, to have the best mixture of articles that I have found so far, and the L-dotter's comments are usually very good.
None of the tat-for-tat insults (the first word should have an 'i', but Lucianne's computer said 'NO!') that infect so many of the other comment streams.
I also skim 'Citizen Free Press' and 'Whatfinger.com', although being controlled by either one or a very few conservative people, they have a more conservative viewpoint.
Many of the stories that they cover are condemned in the 'mainstream media' crowd...... but then, months later, turn out to be true.
Examples that immediately come to mind are the Hunter Biden Laptop story, and a plethora of stories about the (in)effectiveness of masks, the successful use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin to treat the early version of Covid, stories on the origin of the Covid.
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