A “balanced” viewpoint isn’t best
If you ask Alexa in a certain way if the 2020 American election was stolen, it will answer yes. Alexa is built by Amazon. Here are The Young Turks on this topic:
WATCH: Alexa, Was The 2020 Election Stolen?
They suspect that developers may have imagined that taking some news from the left and some from the right is somehow “balanced.” I don’t know anyone who has an Alexa, but 71 million people do.
In my opinion, for the foreseeable future, if you want to look something up you should use a search engine and check the source yourself.
Here’s Steve Shives on a similar topic but a different context. He points out that when you have a debate, it’s implicit that each side of the debate has a valid point of view.
Not Everything Should Be Up For Debate
He uses the example of trans rights to show that some points of view should be shut down rather than coddled and compromised for.
January 4th, 2024 at 12:46 pm
Robert Reich has a few suggestions for how to fix this problem, when it comes to election coverage…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xds9WDUd1yc