news outlets and for source ratings or fact-checking, according to the AI’s software. As a result, NewsGuard’s ratings
infl uence how AI systems prioritize content. Legal expert Jonathan Tur- ley has described the disinforma- tion practices used by NewsGuard, in collaboration with ad agencies, as “a massive censorship system.” AI models are trained on large amounts of text — billions of words from web- sites, books, and social media. Much of the internet content
comes from sources like Wikipe- dia, Reddit, and mainstream media, which generally lean left on social and cultural issues. As a result, AI models inherit these
biases in their outputs. Musk has warned about this issue
for years. In a 2023 Fox News inter- view with Tucker Carlson, he said, “What’s happening is they’re training the AI to lie. It’s bad.” He claimed that leftist program-
mers are injecting biases into AI, leading them to “comment on some things but not others.” Musk responded by creating xAI
and its chatbot Grok, designed to be a “maximum truth-seeking AI” to counter what he calls the “woke mind virus” in models like ChatGPT. However, even Grok has faced challenges in staying neutral, with early tests showing a left-leaning bias on issues like diversity and transgen- der rights. Media expert Donald Kendal,
director of the Heartland Institute’s Emerging Issues Center, states that while Musk is right to call out the internet for its left-wing bias, the rea- sons behind it are more complex — and it begins with the programmers, who tend to be younger and lean left politically. “There is a systemic reason why
the internet has a left-wing bias — every iteration of it was created by younger generations, who tend to lean more left than right,” Kendal told Newsmax. He states that many
Google Gemini became a nationwide punchline aſt er its image generator depicted well-known white historical fi gures, including Nazis and Vikings, as Black.
tech companies’ move to embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion has also helped create inherent bias. “It’s not just passive; the internet
as an entity skews left, and we have seen many of these companies make overt eff orts to bias the outputs of these AI models to align with political correctness,” said Kendal. For example, he points to Google
Gemini, which became a nationwide punchline after its image generator depicted well-known white historical fi gures, including Nazis and Vikings, as Black.
However, a potential solution may
already be emerging. Since it became public that the Biden administra- tion censored information during the COVID-19 pandemic, the pendu- lum has started to swing back under Trump toward open exchange of ideas, according to Smith. It may have taken some time, but the information marketplace is begin-
Americans See AI as a Concern
A
Rasmussen Reports poll, conducted this spring with the
Heartland Institute among 1,067 likely U.S. voters, showed widespread concern about AI. Specifically, 72% of voters are worried about artificial intelligence, with 31% being “very concerned” and 41% “somewhat concerned.” Only 25% said they are not concerned. Conservatives, including President Donald Trump, have taken notice. In July 2025, Trump issued an executive order targeting “woke” AI, declaring, “the American people do not want woke Marxist lunacy in the AI models, and neither do other countries.”
ning to self-correct, starting with Musk’s purchase of Twitter and fol- lowed by Facebook CEO Mark Zuck- erberg admitting that the government pressured his company and that it has since changed some practices. As a result, a vibrant movement
toward free speech remains, at least among some,” said Smith. Most importantly, when using AI
for information searches, the con- sumer must recognize when AI is spreading propaganda, according to Smith.
“There is always a tendency to fear
new technology, but looking back, I remember only three major news networks when I was a kid, and even then, there was always some bias,” he said.
“What’s diff erent now is that,
unlike before, we have a broad range of sources to choose from. Ultimate- ly, no matter how much technolo- gy progresses, it still depends on an informed citizenry making the right choices.” Smith added, “Don’t be too quick
to turn to the government to fi x prob- lems, because when the other party is in power, it might be used against you.” However, a more relevant question
might be: Can a genuinely unbiased information broker exist at all? Said Kendal, “It may very well be
a fallacy that we can ever attain true neutrality . . . I believe the best we can hope for is that people realize all these systems have their own biases. Then, even if you’re stuck in an echo chamber somewhere in your mind, you’ll understand that you need to seek out a variety of perspectives to come close, maybe. And then only maybe.”
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