Placement bias
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Placement bias is the manipulation of the placement of a fact in a document in order to manipulate the impression left in the reader by that fact. As any newspaper editor knows, the number of people who read a fact is proportional to its proximity to the beginning of the article. Moreover, readers expect the more important facts to be first, and place more emphasis on them in reading an article.
On Wikipedia, placement bias is taken on step further by downplaying facts unfavorable to liberals by placing them in less-visited entries.