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Billionaires plan overhaul of US news groups as media confronts trust issue

Patrick Soon-Shiong and Jeff Bezos announce efforts to address bias at LA Times and Washington Post

Efforts by tech billionaires Patrick Soon-Shiong and Jeff Bezos to overhaul two of America’s most storied newspapers in an effort to “restore trust” in the news media are raising alarm among press advocates. 

Soon-Shiong, a biotech entrepreneur who bought the Los Angeles Times in 2018, said this week he had been “quietly building” an artificial intelligence-powered “bias meter” to attach to the newspaper’s stories. 

“So somebody could understand as they read it that the source of the article has some level of bias . . . And then, automatically, the reader can press a button and get both sides of that exact same story . . . and then give comments”, said Soon-Shiong in an appearance on political commentator Scott Jennings’ radio show.

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