AI can reveal hidden bias in news media - Futurity

You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Artificial intelligence can help identify biases in news reporting that we wouldn't otherwise see, researchers report. For a new study, researchers got a computer program to generate news coverage of COVID-19 using headlines from Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) articles as prompts. They then compared the simulated news coverage to the actual reporting at the time. The findings show that CBC coverage was less focused on the medical emergency and more positively focused on personalities and geo-politics.