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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: 2) by art guerrilla on Saturday April 29 2017, @02:44PM (1 child)
@ aristocat-
*sigh*
your argumentation is flawed on numerous levels, but let's take the most basic:
IF you actually believe in freedom in general, and free speech in particular, that INCLUDES the FREEDOM to fuck up, to say stupid/hateful/incoherent shit, to make 'bad' (YMMV) choices, to CHOOSE to do stupid/bad stuff...
IF you do NOT allow that as part and parcel of FREEDOM and free speech, then you are actually for neither...
please don't pretend otherwise...
thanks in advance...
(Score: 2, Insightful) by aristarchus on Saturday April 29 2017, @08:52PM
FREEDOM to fuck up, to say stupid/hateful/incoherent shit, to make 'bad' (YMMV) choices, to CHOOSE to do stupid/bad stuff...
Freedom, of course. No one is saying not. But that does not mean you have a right to be taken seriously, to have your opinion considered, to not be mocked and ridiculed for being such an ignorant and careless excuse for humanity. Have you no shame, Sir? At long last, have you no shame?
Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/welch-mccarthy.html [americanrhetoric.com]