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posted by martyb on Thursday March 22 2018, @12:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the make-fake-take-rake dept.

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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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday March 22 2018, @07:38PM (2 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday March 22 2018, @07:38PM (#656813) Journal

    Runaway, Runaway! What do you think philosophers do?

    Heraclitus says: οὐκ ἐμοῦ, ἀλλὰ τοῦ λόγου ἀκούσαντας ὁμολογεῖν σοφόν ἐστιν ἓν πάντα εἶναι.

    So do not listen to me, listen to Parmenides of Elea.

    II

    Εἰ δ' ἄγ' ἐγὼν ἐρέω, κόμισαι δὲ σὺ μῦθον ἀκούσας,
    αἵπερ ὁδοὶ μοῦναι διζήσιός εἰσι νοῆσαι·
    ἡ μὲν ὅπως ἔστιν τε καὶ ὡς οὐκ ἔστι μὴ εἶναι,
    Πειθοῦς ἐστι κέλευθος - Ἀληθείῃ γὰρ ὀπηδεῖ - ,

    [5] ἡ δ' ὡς οὐκ ἔστιν τε καὶ ὡς χρεών ἐστι μὴ εἶναι,
    τὴν δή τοι φράζω παναπευθέα ἔμμεν ἀταρπόν·
    οὔτε γὰρ ἂν γνοίης τό γε μὴ ἐὸν - οὐ γὰρ ἀνυστόν -
    οὔτε φράσαις.

    III

    ... τὸ γὰρ αὐτὸ νοεῖν ἐστίν τε καὶ εἶναι.

    IV

    Λεῦσσε δ' ὅμως ἀπεόντα νόῳ παρεόντα βεϐαίως·
    οὐ γὰρ ἀποτμήξει τὸ ἐὸν τοῦ ἐόντος ἔχεσθαι
    οὔτε σκιδνάμενον πάντῃ πάντως κατὰ κόσμον
    οὔτε συνιστάμενον.

    http://philoctetes.free.fr/parmenidesunicode.htm [philoctetes.free.fr]

    See?

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday March 23 2018, @06:11PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 23 2018, @06:11PM (#657196) Journal

    You ask what philosophers do? Well - they spend a lot of time, talking in circles, using words that they are sure the audience doesn't know, pontificating over frivolous matters that ultimately have no effect on life.

    You could, of course, emulate Leonid Tolstoy. Ol' Leo actually said a few wise things. A lot of plain, simple things, actually. He stated complex ideas in plain and simple ways, in the hopes that plain and simple people could understand the ideas. You could say that Leo was a great communicator.

    BTW - you do realize that Soylent is all about communication, right? When you post in your native Yiddish, or Assyrian, or Turkish, or whatever that is, you're not communicating. You're just showing off, doing your best to assuage your feelings of inadequacy. If you ever get over those inadequacies, you'll speak to monolingual people in their own language.

    • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday March 23 2018, @08:21PM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Friday March 23 2018, @08:21PM (#657244) Journal

      You ask about truth, and you complain the words are too big and "furrin"? I expected more of you, Runaway. Shirley you noticed the link? Perchance there might even be a translation?

      On the other hand, I did not give a citation for Heraclitus, since I thought the Greek was clear to everyone. This is Fragment B50, and the English would read: "Listening not to me, but to the Logos, the wise agree that all is one." (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fragments_of_Heraclitus#Fragment_4a)