Eric Siu argues that Google News and YouTube suppress political content through algorithmic bias rather than market forces. He cites a Marketing School video about media and elections that got only one view as evidence of how platforms bury political material.
Google News has strong political bias. It's kind of like a form of propaganda at the end of the day, and propaganda is marketing, right? Even though YouTube's owned by Google, they do censor things from time to time. But for the most part, a lot of it's it's pretty market-based, right? Like you you can find the things that you want to find on on YouTube usually. We had a short that went out on marketing school today that got zero views for the first time, and that video now that I'm thinking about it, I think it got censored. I did this one on media is losing its power over the elections. We talked about how you know media tried to censor Trump, but it didn't quite work, right? That video look at this. It has one view. Wow! It has one view. And that was the only, like, political short that we had. So I think they have algorithms that are censoring.
