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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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @07:43AM (2 children)
Now that we have the power to sift the wheat from the chaff, we have the power to do what no other generation has done before: to keep ourselves safe from tyranny, bigotry, hate, and promote peace.
By which you mean keep other people "safe" from ideas that contradict your own. Remember folks, Cultural Marxism is a conspiracy theory, criticism of Islamic doctrine is hate speech, rejecting out subjective and self-contradictionary concept of gender is bigotry, upholding your principles is tyranny and freedom is slavery.
In the same way that I have to exercise and push myself to gain muscle, so must we all give up the ability to hurt one another, verbally or physically, to ensure a better society for everyone.
And there you thought I was making allusions to 1984 lightly. The man who seeks to destroy your ability to conceptualize thoughts seeks to bind you in chain of ignorance. The man who seeks to destroy your ability to fight seeks to bind you in chains of metal.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @08:08AM (1 child)
> By which you mean keep other people "safe" from ideas that contradict your own.
Not safe from ideas, safe from repression and genocide.
Same reason we fought World War II.
"Help! Help! I'm being repressed!" - Adolf Hitler
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Saturday April 29 2017, @12:44PM
"Help! Help! I'm being repressed!" - Adolf Hitler
Are you saying the Allies just came to see the violence inherent in the system?