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posted by martyb on Thursday February 01 2018, @11:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the all-the-better-to-follow-you-with dept.

Google is testing a service called Bulletin that would focus on local news published by the masses:

Google is testing a tool called Bulletin that would allow anyone to publish local news stories and events, according to a report from Slate, which Google later confirmed. The company described Bulletin as a way for others to communicate information of local interest, like bookstore readings, high school sporting events, or information about street closures, for example.

Slate found a website for creating Bulletin posts was already up-and-running, but was still in "early access mode." The service is currently being piloted in Nashville and in Oakland, Calif., the webpage states.

On the site, Google explains that Bulletin is a lightweight app for telling stories, capturing photos and videoclips from your phone, and then publishing them straight to the web – without having to create a blog or build a website yourself.

Meanwhile, Facebook says it will prioritize local news:

In a newsroom post on Monday, Facebook's Alex Hariman, head of news product and Campbell Brown, heads of news partnerships, announced the social platform would begin to prioritize local news outlets in the feeds of its users, emphasizing that local communities benefit and trust the outlets closest to them.


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  • (Score: 2, Redundant) by Tangaroa on Thursday February 01 2018, @02:07PM (1 child)

    by Tangaroa (682) on Thursday February 01 2018, @02:07PM (#631474) Homepage

    First this is going to be filled up by any jackass with a grudge, just like the CNN and Examiner versions of the same idea. The only people who will write about a subject are those who either care a lot about it or are being paid to do it. Few of these people will have an editor and few of these editors will be any good at it.

    Then Google is going to filter out whoever has remotely conservative politics like Google is doing on all of its other properties. This includes anyone who used to be a brickthrowing communist a couple of years ago but has failed to follow all of the increasingly absurd twists and turns of the party line since the Rockefellers took over the movement at OWS. If you respect the American flag or you call for equal application of the rule of law, they call you a Nazi and you're gone.

    Then Google will share their identities with its corporate partners so they get blacklisted by hiring departments nationwide. It's just business! Don't look too closely at how every company doing this has contracts with the government.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 01 2018, @07:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 01 2018, @07:31PM (#631637)

    I think you conservatives / whatevers have completely gone off the rails.

    Muh guns! Muh freedoms! Muh oppression!

    Funny how conservatives have been the party of oppression my entire life. The worst oppression you get from the other side is affirmative action, decidedly not a big deal for most conservatives. Maybe you have concerns about some shit in your closet? Well, if even your bible thumping neighbor sees that shit you're probably gonna be a social outcast for the rest of your life.