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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.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by jmorris on Thursday March 22 2018, @01:36AM (1 child)
Google is pretty much a fake company at this point itself, it claims to be a search engine but, outside purely tech topics, is increasingly a highly curated and mostly useless index more akin to the Yahoo! of old. YouTube is banning users at ever increasing frequency and more erratic by the day, what sane person would invest serious time, money and effort into amassing an audience there? Established e-celebs have be terrified at the increasingly realistic probability of suddenly being demonitized or outright banned. Google has already tried several tactics to purge the last remnants of "bad think" from their platform and only generated ill will, scorn and ridicule. If they still had the big throbbing brains of old they might could pull off a totalitarian purge and make it stick, but the Impossibility of SJW Convergence has rendered them stupid already.
So now they announce a fresh plan to piss away a hundred mil a year trying to buy grace from the Progs. Most will be wasted, the rest drive away more customers and line the pockets of a few leftie organizations.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 23 2018, @03:40AM
jmorris is pretty much a fake identity on SoylentNews by now. He claims to be a Soylentil, but we all know he is full of the "merde". Poor jmorris. I hope he finds a forum that sucks as much as he does. Oh, wait! Isn't he on Gab? Problem solved!