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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday April 29 2017, @01:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-could-possibly-go-wrong dept.

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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


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  • (Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Saturday April 29 2017, @10:20PM (1 child)

    by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Saturday April 29 2017, @10:20PM (#501692) Journal

    BTW - I agree with some of Milo's criticism of the extreme Left too. On the other hand, he frequently tends to go too far and claim that problems don't exist where they do or to argue against strawmen or extremists rather than addressing the "meat" of the issues in a balanced fashion.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday April 30 2017, @12:28AM

    That he does. It's all part of the show. He's most definitely an entertainer first and a pundit second.

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