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Anatomy of a moral panic
A year ago, after noticing an alarming shift in both the number and tone of news articles being served search engines like Google and Bing, I cobbled together a system that would log news stories as they were added to Google News in real time. The project garnered a decent amount of attention, and led to a representative from Google reaching out to check my claims that Google was serving extremist content.
Last night, I reran the code and aggregated a full year’s worth of data which is available for free to researchers here.