Sentences with phrase «political bias on»

Republicans are expected to be more reticent about privacy regulations, and may use the hearings to raise suspicions of political bias on the social network.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R - Texas, led the charge in accusing Facebook of political bias on Tuesday, during Zuckerberg first day of congressional testimony.

And that's not even getting into today's sorry excuse for a «media», which wear their political biases on their sleeve and will happily give scores based on how «moral» they think a game is rather than how good it actually is.

Not exact matches

Trump latched onto the revelations, accusing McCabe of corruption and anti-Trump bias based on his wife's political campaign.

Instead of the political bias of editors, users would see what supposedly objective computer algorithms determined they wanted to see based on their likes and interests.

But the move appears not to be going on planned, in part for a reason that could have been anticipated: AI technology is, like people, prone to bias — a bias as human as the political leanings of an editor, but coming from different sources.

Many of the users locked out of their accounts were conservative voices on the platform, leading to calls of political bias, which the company denounced.

On Tuesday morning, VP of Search Tom Stocky wrote a post denying the allegations of political bias, adding that Facebook's team of news curators merely shepherd topics already identified by its algorithm.

«ACT for America has never, and will never, tolerate any bias, discrimination, or violence against anyone, based on their religion, gender, race, or political persuasion,» Act for America told Newsweek in a statement.

The report of the United States Trade Representative on China is a biased political document that has further inflamed anti-China sentiment in America.

@End, True, I wouldn't claim to know that religion won't be classified as a mental illness on those grounds, but it would be so inconsistent were that to happen that, barring political agendas, I would imagine that the field would reel from such an obvious bias against one particular type of delusion while ignoring so many others.

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It's just a huge turn off to see heavily biased political posts on here instead of team news.

Judge Garaufis has repeatedly shown his bias towards the City's reasonable arguments on hiring in the Fire Department, and Judge Scheindlin, in certifying as a class everyone who has been stopped and frisked by the New York City Police Department, has twisted class action law in order to serve her own political goals.

The bias is stronger on the political left, and with women, but is present across the political spectrum and in both genders.

These contributions were perceived to be less biased and less agenda driven than those from the politicians, being based on experience rather than political calculation.

Thus, to appoint a person who is clearly biased against Israel, who believes that a call to destroy a sovereign state should be regarded solely as «political views» and who justifies his legal opinion to bring an Israeli political leader to justice based on mistaken facts, if not on his fertile imagination, is incomprehensible.

Evidence on the ground in many mining communities shows clear political bias and discrimination in selecting people for skills training.

CNN has a limited section on journalistic failures, that leads with political bias.

His focus is not on political maneuvering in order to maintain a position, but rather on actually governing — encouraging collaboration among all parties and serving all of New Paltz, not being biased towards those who serve some personal agenda.

Still, Mr. Brafman added, «in today's climate, defendants facing political corruption charges must be concerned about potential juror bias that may be based more on perception than fact.»

The petition copied to Mr Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption reads in part: «SERAP considers these amendments to be in bad faith, patently an abuse of legislative powers, politically biased, and demonstrably unjustified in a democratic and representative society governed by the rule of law, and incompatible with the country's international human rights obligations and commitments particularly the UN Convention against Corruption, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights, which Nigeria has ratified.»

The group's statement signed by the chairman, Ibrahim Abiodun which was made available to the Nigeria Politics Online on Monday, noted that the move is tainted with political bias.

Andrew Marr, the former political editor of the BBC, is on record arguing that the BBC has a liberal bias, but this is more in terms of social and cultural issues than political ones.

«And when they go on duty their political opinions are put aside, and they serve everyone without any bias or political judgment.»

It is barred by regulation from conducting itself with the same bias as the press, but it still deals with a political culture in which the press has a disproportionate influence on events.

The problem of being unable to recognize the obvious bias stems from the fact that Helen and other BBC editors / reporters / pundits are so far to left on the political spectrum that they only recognize «their» views as being of (or around) the centre ground.

Assuming me to be a Conservative delegate, she went straight in for a sell based on open political bias.

That liberals are just as guilty of antiscience bias comports more with accounts of humans chomping canines, and yet those on the left are just as skeptical of well - established science when findings clash with their political ideologies, such as with GMOs, nuclear power, genetic engineering and evolutionary psychology — skepticism of the last I call «cognitive creationism» for its endorsement of a blank - slate model of the mind in which natural selection operated on humans only from the neck down.

On a related note, I wonder to what extent our cultural biases and political or interpersonal clashes might arise from misperceptions orchestrated (so to speak) by differing linguistic tones.

Vote for everyone's best interest, and when you're forming your political beliefs, form them based on information and learning, not on the basis of quick thinking, anger or bias.»

A co-production of leading indie studio A24 and Amazon, the six - episode series is a satirical mashup of tropes aimed at our collective nostalgia, political biases, and misguided nationalism, with a solid stream of self - aware idiocy that keeps the show from becoming an obnoxious lecture on patriotism.

There is some kind of irresponsible, biased political allegory within the subtext, but I don't want to waste any more time on this movie and figure it out.

By the same token they find that the political manipulations where it concerns the stimulation of racial, religious and gender biases, are not matters they choose to be overly concerned with and more inter-racial, and inter-religious partnerships / marriages are being embarked on.

That's why we base our programs and materials on six ethical values that everyone can agree on — values that are not political, religious, or culturally biased.

One is that of the medias reporting on sciences that have a political bias and will and need to influence politial decision making in that it must be argued on both sides regardless of the scientific appraisal and position in the subject at hand.

I note with interest Pat's attempt to hoist this site on the cleft stick of «disclosure»: either the authors reveal their political beliefs and economic resources and expose themselves to attack because of affiliations that don't guarantee objectivity to Pat's satisfaction, or their integrity is impugned by the implication that they are hiding their biases.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

These guys came in with a set of assumptions on every single issue, biased toward their friends, political allies, and campaign financiers (and not to mention their former colleagues and family members and themselves) in the fossil fuel businesses — and every single thing they have done has advanced the wealth of those people, in those industries.

My emphasis on the second component derives from all the biases toward the quick fix that are built into the human brain, political institutions and culture.

On the one hand, it is very important for the political right to have this echo chamber out there — and the arguments generated by conservative think tanks would interact with the biased reasoning processes that are the subject of my piece in a kind of one - two combination.

The core problem, I believe, is the interaction between our penchant for biased reasoning on the one hand, the deeply polarized political climate (which pushes emotional buttons rather than encouraging calm deliberation), and the rich misinformation environment (there's a ready - made argument in defense of anything and everything).

I suspect with those aggregate factors, it might receive more than three mentions, but that doesn't necessarily point to «political bias» (your second question) if you mean ideology, though that depends on your def there too.

Talk about a civics lesson: A high school senior has raised questions about political bias in a popular textbook on U.S. government, and legal scholars and top scientists say the teen's criticism is well founded.

We've seen two examples on this blog in recent weeks of how political bias becomes interpretational bias: JQ on browning of Australia, and JQ again on the gun buyback thread.

NB, I am not suggesting here that researchers should not be allowed to have such biases, or even that the academy should not be a place where people are able to develop persuasive political ideas — on the contrary.

People who can't confirm the AGW agenda motives are either fools but more likely willful and deceptive based on their presupposed political bias and culture that they come from.

Views on global warming are as much determined by political and religious biases as by science.

Their petition goes on to explain EPA's data was highly compromised, likely to contain political bias, and never independently verified.

Written accounts may be more, or less reliable depending on the likely bias of the writer, cui bono, eg the public statements of political leaders as players are more suspect than their private correspondence to a trusted associate.