LA Times owner adding AI 'bias meter' to articles
Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, is sparking backlash with a decision to add a "bias meter" to articles the news organization publishes and other editorial decisions.
Soon-Shiong told CNN commentator Scott Jennings on a recent podcast episode he is working behind the scenes to implement the tool, which will use AI to gauge bias in news articles.
“Somebody could understand as they read it that the source of the article has some level of bias,” Soon-Shiong said.
The billionaire healthcare mogul sparked similar blowback among staff with a decision not to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election.
Soon-Shiong's comments on the incoming "bias meter" sparked the resignation of Harry Litman, one of its longtime columnists and commentators.
"I don’t want to continue to work for a paper that is appeasing Trump and facilitating his assault on democratic rule for craven reasons," Litman wrote in an entry on Substack this week. "Given the existential stakes for our democracy that I believe Trump’s second term poses, and the evidence that Soon-Shiong is currying favor with the President-elect, they are repugnant and dangerous."
Soon-Shiong defended his decisions during his conversation with Jennings.
"There has to be some level of being a trusted source," he said. "Everybody has a right to an opinion, but it really shouldn't be an eco chamber of opinion. We need to create some level of balance of opinion ... nobody has really done that and it could be the downfall of mainstream media."
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