The Watchdog with David Bozell

As I told Fox News in a story published yesterday, we’re watching the next phase of media bias unfold in real time.

Silicon Valley wants Americans to trust AI chatbots to answer everything from political questions to major world events. The problem? Too many of the answers sound suspiciously like the elitist press corps that Americans stopped trusting years ago.

Fox News highlighted the issue in a piece today examining how AI platforms handled recent reporting involving Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner. Fox’s own reporting uncovered disturbing past comments from Platner, including one post mocking a wounded American soldier.

Yet when users asked chatbots for the latest developments involving Platner, the answers often skipped right past the controversy. Instead, users got polished summaries about polling, endorsements, campaign momentum, and magazine coverage, with only vague references to “scrutiny” buried near the bottom, if mentioned at all.

And the pattern goes beyond one race.

Earlier this year, MRC proved that ChatGPT falsely claimed there was no evidence anyone named Charlie Kirk had ever been assassinated. We’ve also documented repeated examples of AI systems minimizing or excluding right-leaning reporting while elevating legacy media narratives.

We’re testing all the major platforms, and the results are remarkably similar.

The old gatekeepers used editors, producers, and newsroom meetings to shape narratives. The new gatekeepers use algorithms and chatbots. Same worldview. Same omissions. Same instinct to protect one side and suppress the other.

MRC is going to keep exposing it.

Thank you for making the work possible.

Take it easy, 

David Bozell
President