From the piece:
The findings are "damning," according to Mark Grabowski, a digital ethics expert who chairs the communications department at Adelphi University. "These companies have spent years insisting their platforms are neutral. This data makes that claim very hard to take seriously," Grabowski said. "There's no shortage of credible right-leaning journalism out there."
Grabowski, who teaches Cyber Law & Ethics at Adelphi, noted that when the imbalance is this lopsided across multiple platforms year after year, the "it's just the algorithm" defense stops being credible — these are editorial choices, whether the companies want to admit it or not.
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