This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, August 2nd, 2019.

I'm Keelah Brown.

When Prager You announced that it believed Google was skewing results for searches of Prager

U. The result was a rather large self-own. With the claim that big

platforms for speech may be illegally biased against conservatives reveals either a misunderstanding

of the relevant federal law or a refusal to

appreciate that the First Amendment protects both speech and association.

Cato's Matthew Feeney comments.

Prager U. Short comments. Prager University is a website.

I think it's fair to call it an advocacy organization

that provides, tries to demystify a lot of issues for their audience and recently

posted on Twitter a couple of things. One is that they, according to them, they are prohibited from purchasing

ads on Twitter, and another was an image of a Google Auto Complete form in which they seemed, the

auto complete seemed to indicate that they were going to be pointed toward

results that would have, give people a negative impression of

Prager Yu. A lot of people jumped in and said, hey I do that same auto complete

thing and I get very different results which of course is sort of how

algorithms work when it comes to what Google thinks you might like to see and a lot of this you know you you my inclination is to say

oh well you know you just don't understand how a lot of this stuff works but by

inclination is also if you do understand how this stuff works it seems like a pretty

cynical way to sort of beef up your audience.

So for the benefit of our listeners, what is the fundamental mistake, if they are indeed making

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