Big tech has long been under the microscope for burying real news and promoting biased news from the Left. That much has been proven, as Facebook blatantly admitted to it, as has Google. But if you expected them to turn over a new leaf, and stop doing that, then you just do not know how the Democrats work.
Once again, big tech has been busted for burying Democrat scandals leading up to the 2025 elections. People like Google News, Yahoo, and AOL are all under fire for largely hiding major Democrat scandals from their aggregation. The same new sources that send news directly to people's phones and emails, things Americans access every single day.
They suppressed things like the texting scandal with Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones, who said a colleague of his and his children deserved to be shot for "being fascist." He also was found saying he wished cops would be shot. That was all suppressed by the liberal media to keep Virginia from voting the other direction. Not to mention the comments of Zohran Mamdani, who said 9/11 created Islamophobia and that Muslims are the real victims of the worst attack on American soil. That was largely ignored by all these aggregators.
Tom Olohan of MRC Free Speech America says they found shocking statistics when doing a deep dive. Although those who know how the media operates might not find them too shocking.
"When we looked at the last four weeks before the election...we found there were only 14 stories about prominent Democrat scandals...in 2,240 results," he says.
There was also the scandal surrounding New Jersey governor candidate Mikie Sherill, who was accused of insider trading during the COVID-19 pandemic. Not a peer from these new aggregators on that story.
It simply boils down to a blatant covering up in order to keep the Democrat agenda alive.
"It is no wonder because almost all the coverage we found came from the Left," says Olohan. "In the case of Google News, we found 21 times as much Leftist coverage than right-of-center sources."
Instead of posting stories about these scandals, they pushed fluffy feel-good pieces about Sherill, and Virginia governor-elect Abigail Spanberger, who refused to condemn Jay Jones' behaviors.
Americans too did not see through this simply because of convenience. We all look at our phone's hours a day, and most people do not want to seek out true news. So, they just click on the article they see, read it, and take whatever they read as absolute truth. It is a sad, gullible state into which we have sunk.
"If the convenient sources turn out to be incredibly biased...they are going to be fed propaganda without realizing it," Olohan says.
As for fixing the problem, Olohan says it is up to people to make a conscious effort at seeking out real news.
Will that happen? It is hard to say. In a world where people are absorbed by big tech, it is going to be a hard thing for people to shake. But if we have any hope of not being gullible and uninformed, a wake up call is needed.
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