Left Wing Bias in Our Online Searches

Left Wing Bias in Our Online Searches

Typically, by default, most of us use Google Chrome as our web page, the Google search engine for our online searches, and Wikipedia for our topic lookup.  This ensures that we consistently are guided to the left side on issues, because the algorithms embedded in all of the above are designed to do exactly that – guide us consistently to a left view of things.

Just for grins, I looked up “Black Lives Matter” using both “Info Galactic” and “Wikipedia”.  The differences are obvious, and illustrate my point.  This happens every time we use the default tools listed above.

This is from Info Galactic, a non-biased topic lookup option.

“Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a decentralized left-wing American activist movement that campaigns against violence toward black people and seeks to increase blacks' social and political power. It was founded in 2013 by three black lesbians: the daughter of illegal immigrants and legalization proponent Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors, and Alicia Garza. Under the BLM banner, protests and propaganda are organized against police killings of black people, and against racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the justice system.

Black Lives Matter traces its roots back to the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Power movement, and the international struggle against Apartheid, but began in its present form with the 2013 hashtag #BlackLivesMatter after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in his self-defense case that involved the death of his attacker, African-American Trayvon Martin.

The movement is a decentralized network with no formal hierarchy, but influential opinion leaders  BLM considers itself an inclusive movement within the black community, welcoming "Black queer and trans folks, disabled folks, black-undocumented folks, folks with records, women and all Black lives along the gender spectrum."

Black Lives Matter has allegedly been funded by George Soros, and has been accused of being a domestic terror organization, but has generally been sympathetically depicted by the mass media and the government under the Obama administration.”

NOTE: - InfoGalactic is intended to have less alleged politically progressive, left-wing, or "politically correct" bias than Wikipedia, and to allow articles or statements that would not be allowed on Wikipedia because of problems with Wikipedia's policies on reliable sources, or due to alleged biases held by Wikipedia editors. Standards on notability are more relaxed, within limits. Articles based on original research may also be allowed if all conflicts and controversies are disclosed.

This is from a conventional Wikipedia search.  The bias is obvious.

Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an international human rights movement, originating from within the African-American community, which campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people. BLM regularly holds protests speaking out against police brutality and police killings of black people, and broader issues such as racial profiling, and racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system.

In 2013, the movement began with the use of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African-American teen Trayvon Martin in February 2012.

Black Lives Matter activists became involved in the 2016 United States presidential election. The originators of the hashtag and call to action, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, expanded their project into a national network of over 30 local chapters between 2014 and 2016.  The overall Black Lives Matter movement, however, is a decentralized network and has no formal hierarchy.”

Ray Gruszecki

June 13,2020