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posted by Fnord666 on Monday November 04 2019, @03:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the swaying-public-opinion dept.

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

Google exec suggests Elizabeth Warren is misguided and only big tech can prevent "the next Trump situation"

A new Project Veritas report includes an undercover video, leaked documents, and statements from a whistleblower that all paint a grim picture of Google's apparent lack of fairness, and its bias.

Google's now a very powerful company, and that's upsetting both sides in the US political divide.

As a consequence, many politicians are looking for ways to contain that power – either by applying antitrust or some other type of legislation against the company.

In the comments recorded in an undercover video, Google's Head of Responsible Innovation, Jen Gennai, cheerfully and not without a hint of hubris acknowledges that Google has been called to appear before Congress many times – but simply chose to ignore those invitations.


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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @06:44AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @06:44AM (#915638)

    Is it possible that we could have a rather public "editor training" program of some sort? Sometimes I get the idea that our volunteers are just naive, and do not realize the liabilities of linking to such disgraced sources such as Brietbart and Project Veritas, and one's on the left, like, like, well, you know, like CNN. Such inability to be discriminate by Soylent Eds undercuts what little gravitas we have left. Runaway subs, accepted without critical review. We are done.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @06:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @06:59AM (#915641)

    Ed Training?

    No need for extra training, they are already a team of experts.
    They promote Runaway's submissions to fill the limited quota of political stories and then have reasons to refuse aristarchus' submissions.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Monday November 04 2019, @10:49PM (1 child)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday November 04 2019, @10:49PM (#916000) Journal

    There is an editor training. I did it. It's thorough. Once I completed it, though, they told me they had enough editors and that they thought continuing to submit stories was a more valuable way for me to help the SN community. So, I did that instead of becoming an editor.

    One way to address your complaint here is for you to also undertake the training and become an SN editor yourself. Or you could submit stories from sources you like better. SoylentNews is People.

    All that said, Project Veritas might take people and organizations you like to task, but they do a heck of a lot better job at the journalism thing than most "reputable" sources you can point to these days. In fact, with their undercover video they remind me a lot of 60 Minutes in the 70's and 80's, back when the MSM still did investigatory journalism. For example, the recent story they broke about CNN's CEO Zucker manufacturing their broadcast, contrary to what the news of the day actually was, punctured what remains of the myth that that network does anything but propaganda.

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    • (Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Tuesday November 05 2019, @12:59AM

      by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 05 2019, @12:59AM (#916057) Journal

      Thanks for the rabbithole.

      The submission guidelines [soylentnews.org] and style manual [soylentnews.org] I knew of, but those didn't seem like what you were describing, so I dug deeper.
       
      I thought I might have found what you were talking about on the Editorial Team's page's Editing Process [soylentnews.org] but still I pressed on.

      Then I found the answer buried in the Editorial Policy [soylentnews.org]

      Training

      Before a new volunteer is accepted into the ET they must complete a period of training. While the responsibility for this rests with the EiC [(Editor in Chief)], he can nominate other editors to assist in this task. Editors must not assume that they can conduct training without having first been informed by the EiC that he is content for this to happen. There is no limit to the number of editors that can be nominated to assist in training.

      Having slaked my curiosity I'm off to watch cat videos and such.

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