How Google is pushing you to vote for Bernie Sanders

[Omaha Steve]

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a rally in Las Vegas last month. (AP Photo/John Locher)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/09/how-google-is-pushing-you-to-vote-for-bernie-sanders/

Roughly three-quarters of Americans get their news online these days, making the Internet America's favorite news source, according to a 2014 Pew Research Center poll. And for many of them, their online news search starts with a Google query -- especially when it comes to news about campaigns and candidates.

But like any information source, Google's algorithm-driven search results aren't 100 percent neutral. Its search engine produces more favorable results for some candidates than others, new research has found.

In an analysis published by Slate, Daniel Trielli, Sean Mussenden and Nicholas Diakopoulos tallied the top 10 search results for each of 16 Democratic and Republican presidential candidates. Then they had a crowdsourced team of reviewers rate whether each of these results painted the candidate in a positive, negative or neutral light.

For instance, if the top search result was a candidate's own Facebook or campaign page, that would qualify as an overwhelmingly positive result. But if a news story critical of a candidate came up in the top 10, it would be coded as negative.

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[BlueJazz]

1. "reviewers rate whether each of these results painted the candidate in a positive, negative"

Bernie is perfect. How could anybody say something bad about him.?