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Google News Initiative announced to fight fake news and support journalism
Google is announcing new efforts today to support the media industry by fighting misinformation and bolstering journalism, which will live under a newly announced umbrella called the Google News Initiative. Google already offers something similar in Europe through the Digital News Initiative, but the Google News Initiative is intended to be a wider worldwide expansion of those kinds of efforts.
There are three specific goals of the Google News Initiative: highlight accurate journalism while fighting misinformation, particularly during breaking news events; help news sites continue to grow from a business perspective; and create new tools to help journalists do their jobs. Google is serious about supporting these goals, too, pledging to invest $300 million over the next three years.
Fighting fake news is obviously one of the most crucial parts of Google's forthcoming efforts. The company has had several brushes with disinformation propagating through search following events like the Las Vegas shooting last fall, making this an area where Google has room to improve. According to Google, the company is working to train its system to be better at recognizing contentious breaking news and adjust toward displaying more accurate results, using the recently added "Breaking News" section on YouTube as an example. But even with those improvements, Google still has problems with search results on YouTube, including issues where conspiracy videos topped the trending results last month following the Parkland shooting. It's good to see that Google is working to improve this, but it'll have a long way to go to regain users' trust.
Also at Bloomberg.
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After doing some more research into mental disorders and sexual congruity, I came across a certain article about "17 things to never say to a girl with Borderline Personality Disorder" [cosmopolitan.com] written a Charlotte Dingle." [cosmopolitan.com] The fourth thing to pop into my head was "this is probably Azunstable Hazadick." Years of schoolhood abuse from her peers, because of such a silly last name "dingle." All those years of feeling like a turd, drove her to binge eating. At one point, she was indistinguishable from all the other binge-eaters, all identifying features lost in adipose. And where did her fool-proof logic bring her next?
If you guessed, hair dye, please contact me and I'll send you a personalized grievance card, because you would be right. Neon pink hair is the only thing that distinguishes Azuneurotic Haznomeds from a garbage bag full of liposuctioned fat.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 22 2018, @05:55PM
Speaking of personality disorders.....