Right Bias Bias

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Right bias is more powerful than left bias:

"Right-leaning news organizations have a stronger effect than left-leaning ones on their audiences’ points of view on multiple issues, including overall political philosophy, according to a PLOS One journal article in March by Megan Earle and Gordon Hodson of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. “These findings suggest that partisan news, and particularly right-leaning news, can polarize consumers in their sociopolitical positions, sharpen political divides and shape public policy,” they wrote." - from [1]

Also: '“It is possible that no textbook would ever be written, no house built and no opera composed if people based their decision on the progress and success of similar endeavors,” Ralph Hertwig and Christoph Engel wrote in a 2021 book, “Deliberate Ignorance: Choosing Not to Know.”'