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Google says it has new ways to combat its so-called fake-news problem in search results.
Over the last few months, Google, along with Facebook and other digital platforms, has struggled to keep hoaxes and fake news stories from appearing in search.
The examples were pretty unsettling, including Holocaust denials, a claim that President Barack Obama was running for a third term, and a wide range of other conspiracy theories.
On Tuesday, Google will have new feedback tools in its search results so users can flag content that appears to be false or misleading. (Facebook launched similar tools earlier this year, along with tips to help you spot fake news.) This will help teach Google's search algorithms to weed out hoaxes and, in theory, keep them buried in search results.
Google also says its algorithms have now been trained to demote "low quality" content based on signals like whether the information comes from an "authoritative" page.
I can't see how this can do anything but fail spectacularly. You?
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-launches-new-search-tools-to-combat-fake-news-2017-4
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 29 2017, @02:28AM (6 children)
I think Facefook already has something like that. The "like" and "share" buttons have the functions you describe. Unfortunately, that "Web of Trust" rapidly sinks to the lowest common denominator, just as television sank to the LCD. When I was a small child, people still believed that television would become a great educational tool. By the time I was a teen, that hope had pretty much dried up and blown away.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @02:47AM (5 children)
cefook already has something like that. The "like" and "share" buttons have the functions you describe. Unfortunately, that "Web of Trust" rapidly sinks to the lowest common denominator, just as television sank to the LCD.
Yeah, but Plasma was much higher quality! And what does "trust" have to do with flat screens? Sometimes, Runaway, I just don't understand what you are trying to say. Is it a racist thing?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 29 2017, @02:54AM (3 children)
Racist? No, it's just you that I don't like. Your parents are alright, your siblings are tolerable, most of your extended family is pretty decent. It's only you. Where did you go so very wrong?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @02:58AM (2 children)
Where did you go so very wrong?
Evidently, where I bought an LCD television. Little did I know then, that this would make Runaway a racist against me. If only I could go back, undo the past, keep the old cathode Tube!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday April 29 2017, @09:59AM (1 child)
Fuck cathode ray tubes. I had to lift a 36" CRT for the neighbor lady this week. They're fucking heavy.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @09:15PM
CRT's still win hands down over LCDs of all types in the areas of actual refresh rate (black-to-black) and ghosting. (I will grant you that LCDs win verses CRTs when it comes to portability.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @04:30AM
This is a bad attempt at trolling runaway, don't sink to the level of EF, JM, TB, KH or other such types.