"Yoon Seok-yeol Search Shows Ahn Cheol-soo and Yoo Seung-min" Ruling Party Criticizes Naver

Yeo Leadership Criticizes Naver News Algorithm

On the eve of President Yoon Suk-yeol's first anniversary in office, the leadership of the People Power Party raised their voices, claiming that news portals like Naver are filled exclusively with critical and disparaging articles about President Yoon, and called for a reform of the news algorithm.

Park Dae-chul, the Policy Committee Chair of the People Power Party, held a floor strategy meeting on the morning of the 9th and said, "If you type the keyword 'Yoon Suk-yeol' on Naver and sort articles by relevance, the first article that appears is from Hankyoreh titled 'Yoon Suk-yeol's prosecution politics dividing all citizens into guilty and innocent.'"

Park Dae-chul, Chairman of the Policy Committee of the People Power Party, is holding a floor strategy meeting at the National Assembly on the 9th. Photo by Yonhap News Agency

Park continued, "The related news is from Minbyun (Lawyers for a Democratic Society), followed by a critical article from Kyunghyang Shinmun starting with statements from Assemblyman Ahn Cheol-soo titled 'Is the Yoon Suk-yeol government going to continue like this?'" He pointed out, "If the president, who has just reached his first anniversary in office, is bombarded with critical and disparaging articles like this, it would be close to a miracle for the public to evaluate President Yoon objectively or positively."

He added, "We can no longer neglect Naver portal news. Naver claims that the articles are arranged by algorithm, but this is not an algorithm, it is a deception algorithm," emphasizing, "Naver news must now be reformed."

Lee Cheol-gyu, Secretary-General of the People Power Party, also criticized Naver's search algorithm. He said, "If it is related news, at least when searching for President Yoon Suk-yeol, the president's statements and that day's schedule should appear in the news sorted by relevance," and pointed out, "When searching for 'Yoon Suk-yeol,' articles featuring Ahn Cheol-soo, Yoo Seung-min, and third parties criticizing him appear in the relevance ranking, which is impossible without manipulation."

He added, "The algorithm was designed to produce such results," and said, "It is completely incomprehensible why the articles about the person being searched for do not appear, and only critical articles consistently show up."

He further stated, "The giant portal Naver frequently deletes articles unfavorable to itself," emphasizing, "Naver is becoming a monster that can no longer be left unattended. The responsibility for this lies solely with Naver."

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