The Algorithm Has an Opinion — And It Isn’t Neutral.

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Here is a small, sturdy fact that ought to bother more people than it does: the news that lands in your pocket every morning was not chosen by you. It was chosen for you, by an algorithm at Apple or a formula at Google, and lately those choices have had a shape. A political shape. The Media Research Center has been at this for months now, and the pattern holds up story after story. When a Democratic Senate candidate in Maine turned out to have a Nazi-linked tattoo and a Reddit history nobody wanted to explain, Apple News and Google

Trump Confirms Kim Meet. Spills Tea on Nuke Count.

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President Trump confirmed Wednesday he’ll sit down again with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un before the year is out — their fourth meeting overall and first since Trump returned to the White House. “Yeah, I will be,” Trump told reporters when asked whether a summit was coming. No date has been set, but the president has directed aides to make contact with Pyongyang, and the APEC summit in Shenzhen, China this November is the leading candidate for a venue. The White House and North Korea have not officially confirmed plans. Trump is moving fast to clear the diplomatic runway.

Company Admits Poll Showing Bass Leading Raman Was Fake

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Somebody made up a poll. And a sitting mayor fell for it. Median Strategies, the outfit behind a survey claiming Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass held a nearly 12-point lead over City Councilmember Nithya Raman, came clean this week: it was all fiction. The company announced Monday it’s shutting down its “polling project” entirely, scrubbing every release it ever published. Don’t cite them, don’t trust them — they said so themselves. The confession, buried on the company’s own website, reads less like a correction and more like a confession from a science experiment gone rogue. Median Strategies says it built

Poll: The ‘S’ Word Doesn’t Scare Democrats Anymore

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Democrats used to argue about how much government. Now they’re arguing about whether capitalism itself deserves a seat at the table — and capitalism is losing. A new CBS News/YouGov poll, taken August 12–14 among 2,287 U.S. adults, finds that 58% of Democrats hold a favorable view of socialism, while just 32% feel that way about capitalism. Only 18% of Democrats view socialism negatively; half view capitalism that way. Call it a 26-point swing toward the left’s oldest dream, and it’s not a blip. It’s part of a trend that’s been building since 2016. Break it down further and the

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