Politics

Nadine Dorries claims Google turns big dials to make search results more left wing

Oonagh Keating. Updated October 25th, 2023

We’re not entirely sure what Nadine Dorries was doing during her tenure as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, but it certainly wasn’t getting across her brief.

As much as we all laughed when she publicly learned that Channel 4 was funded differently to the BBC, just as she was trying to break it up and sell it off, her new Daily Mail column reveals an even bigger misconception.

Brace yourselves …

Headed ‘I Googled my name, and learnt all about Big Tech!’, the piece is an amazing parody of something a complete idiot would say in an interview on GB News – except, it’s serious.

“I’d long been aware that when you search for news related to politics on Google, it is predominantly Left-wing publications that top the list of results.

I asked someone to explain this to me, and their answer was enlightening.

‘Imagine that in Silicon Valley, they have these big dials,’ I was told. ‘They can turn them up and turn them down at will in order to determine what content has priority when searched.

‘In doing so, the liberals who populate Silicon Valley can control what people see and read, and ultimately can influence what they think. By feeding you Left-wing content when you search, which you then click on, the algorithms learn what you are reading and keep feeding you more of the same, whether you search for it or not.’

In other words, algorithms nudge opinion ever leftwards by ensuring the content people read online is Left-leaning.”

Naturally, people had a lot to say about it – and none of it was complimentary.

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