'it favours' is a perfectly acceptable phrase in written English that can be used in a variety of contexts.
For example, you might say: "This new policy heavily favours those already in positions of power."
It favours using its vast technical resources to develop algorithms to expose suspicious behaviour.
It favours funding its own, as yet unsuccessful, unmanned aerial vehicle, or drone, programme.
The blood system has too many errors of its own because it favours the wealthy.
It favours negotiations with the extremist Tigers.
Because it favours the big six.
It favours a strong state with a mixed economy.
It is spectacular, so it favours installation and disfavours painting.
Like any championship-level sport, it favours the very young.
Unusually among the tulips, it favours a damp position.
The American public narrowly, but definitively, tells pollsters it favours gun rights over new restrictions.
This is because it favours egg quality and implantation of the embryo in the womb lining.
