GNews / yfinance / News Aggregation

Source bias audit. GNews (Google News) and yfinance (Yahoo Finance) are the engine's primary news and market data sources. Core biases: (1) Google controls ranking and visibility — GNews results are Google-curated. Google's own interests (Alphabet is a the Presidential science advisory council-adjacent company, DeepMind is a frontier AI lab, Google Cloud competes for the same contracts the engine tracks) create structural conflicts. Stories critical of Google/Alphabet may be deprioritized. (2) SEO gaming — GNews results are shaped by search engine optimization, meaning well-resourced outlets (often Big Three-owned media companies) dominate over independent sources. (3) yfinance reports market data 'as reported' by exchanges — it does not account for dark pool activity (~40% of US equity volume), fails-to-deliver, or the short volume data the engine's own pipeline tracks separately. (4) Survivorship bias — GNews surfaces stories that got published. The stories that were killed, delayed, or self-censored are invisible