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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @08:33AM
Your basic mistake, one you are not capable of perceiving, is that there are no ideas and opinions in fake news. There is only malice and ill-intent.
And your basic mistake is presuming malice where stupidity and ignorance are adequate explanations.
Ann Milo does not want to debate, they want to be protested.
Oh, he wants to be debated alright, in fact people have to protest to stop him from debating. Now, I'm not saying it is unreasonable to protest against listening to Milo's debating style, that is certainly a cruel and unusual punishment to inflict upon people, however it is unreasonable to protest because you don't want him to express his ideas especially to those who want to listen to them.
There is not serious positions, no good faith debate.
Yeah, right. I've seen that before with GamerGate and MRAs, the extremists will be used as a justification to shut down the reasonable majority as always.
The Micturated Buzzsawyer, who has nothing to say but that it "promotes discussion".
If you think Buz doesn't genuinely holds his opinions, you are delusional. He gets a lot of shit from this community, so I wouldn't hold his attitude against him, one can only be so polite when people like you keep antagonizing them at every step.
So, I am going to tell you, if you read Breitbart, you are a fool, you are being used, you are part of the zombie masses that the Dark Enlightenment is counting on to destroy the world as we know it, including you.
Oh don't be such a drama queen, one can read bad ideas without believing them. I've read Mein Kampf and in the end the only person I wanted to send to the gas chambers is the author.
You really think you do not need to be protected from your own ignorance, so you do not become part of the destruction of the world, of your community, your family, and your own poor sorry ass?
No, what I need to protect the world from your attempt to enforce your ignorance upon our collective intellectual space.
Well, if you do not see it, those of us who are (make no mistake, we actually are) you betters need to have pity on your ignorant misguided souls. Gonna save you, bro. It's gonna hurt. Tough love, my brother!
Yeah, yeah, I've been told that before. I used to live in a totalitarian hellhole in my youth after all, you aren't the first of my "betters" to try to "protect" me from my choices. They also had the tough love thing too incidentally, I've seen what happens to the people who get "loved" so forgive me if I'm not thrilled about the idea. Your means may not be the same but your mindset certainly is.