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Scott Jennings and the Los Angeles Times ‘Bias Meter’

CNN analyst Scott Jennings filled in for Salem Radio talk show host Mike Gallagher this week, and one of the most interesting interviews was with Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times. He divulged to Jennings he’s privately developing a “bias meter,” a new AI-powered technology to enhance the balance of the news stories at his paper.

The medical mogul added, “What we need to do is not have what we call ‘confirmation bias’ and then that story, automatically, the reader can press a button and get both sides of that exact same story based on that story. And then give comments. Now, I’m giving you some little breaking news here but this is what we’re currently building behind the scenes. And I’m hoping that by January we launch this.”

Jennings replied, “So we’re talking about a fusion of content created by…

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