Yahoo News AI-powered search tool drew just 3% of its articles from conservative outlets: study

Yahoo’s AI-powered news tool has a clear bias against conservative viewpoints — with just 3% of its featured articles coming from right-leaning outlets in the past three months, according to a new analysis released Thursday.Media Research Center – a conservative watchdog that has previously called out Apple News, Google and other aggregators for alleged bias — conducted a review of the “Yahoo 100” feed.The tool “uses AI to identify emerging stories and generate summaries” to provide “a real-time snapshot of what the internet is talking about,” according to Yahoo.Of a total of 1,218 articles reviewed from May through July, 859 — or about 70% — came from news outlets that are classified as left-leaning.

Meanwhile, a paltry 35 stories — or just 3% — came from right-leaning outlets like The Post, Fox News, or The Telegraph.“Yahoo claiming its new trending feed reflects genuine cultural conversations across the internet is a total sham.MRC Free Speech America’s latest findings prove that Yahoo is falling right in line with the rest of the biased news aggregators — Apple News, Google News and MSN — in aggressively slanting what the public sees,” MRC President David Bozell said in a statement.“Across all four platforms, Big Tech is actively rigging the news feed to suppress conservative voices and insulate millions of readers in a left-wing echo chamber,” Bozell added.MRC noted that Yahoo 100 also features content from the site’s “Yahoo Scout” tool, which was built using Anthropic’s Claude model – which itself has faces allegations of bias in its responses.Yahoo says Scout uses “Microsoft Bing’s grounding API” to ensure that its AI-generated answers “are informed by authoritative sources from across the open web.”MRC alleged in a blog post about its findings that “authoritative sources” are a “leftist catchphrase often used to excuse censorship of media sources that run afoul of the left’s narrative.�...