The owner of the Los Angeles Times newspaper has announced plans to introduce new technology to give readers both sides of a story.
Patrick Soon-Shiong said a team was working to develop a “bias meter” to be added to its website next year.
Soon-Shiong, who has made sweeping changes since buying the L.A. Times in 2018, said the artificial intelligence meter was being quietly built “behind the scenes” and would have comments and multiple points of view, according to media reports.
The decision prompted protests from journalists and followed the newspaper’s owner decision prior to the US presidential election not to endorse Democrat candidate Kamala Harris although this was the intention of the editorial board.
Soon-Shiong said the new technology would allow a reader to know the source of an article had some level of bias.
“And what we need to do is not have what we call confirmation bias and … the reader can press a button and get both sides of that exact same story based on that story and then give comments,” he was quoted as saying.