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Microsoft Developing News Sorting Based On Political Bias
wiredog writes "The Washington Post is reporting that Microsoft is developing a program that classifies news stories according to whether liberal or conservative bloggers are linking to them and also measures the 'emotional intensity' based on the frequency of keywords in the blog posts." If you would like to jump right to the tool you can check out "Blews" on the Microsoft site.
What is shocking is the rise is antisemitism in the Left.
Of course it is thinly thinly disguised as anti-Zionism.
You only have to look at Obama's advisers and associates to see the hatred and bigotry that drives the Left today.
To them hatred has become a virtue.
Of course, their hate is Politically Correct hate. So, it is OK.
The truth has a liberal bias.
Just the other day I was rewatching an interview that Matt Groening gave to Jon Stewart. Has said it was an uneasy relationship with the Fox "octopus". They got a reprimand for showing a parody of Fox News which had a news crawler stating things like "Albert Einstein + Bratt Pitt = Dick Cheney" or "Rupert Murdoch - terrific dancer" - they were forbidden to ever do such a thing again, because "the Fox viewer might confuse [the Simpsons] with actual news". (Daily Show 07.18.2007)
Btw, I wouldn't call a news outlet pushing a neo-con agenda "conservative".
Yeah, because we should get political news filtered by software made by an official monopoly. According to some worthless, manipulative "Conservative / liberal" label.
It's bad enough that the MS-NBC news channel still has Microsoft's name on it, and that ABC/Disney CBS/Viacom NBC/GE and Fox/Murdoch all get to filter our news according to some fake, superficial "balance" between them. We should trust Microsoft to tell us the news on which Microsoft's own fate hangs?
I wouldn't wrap fish with a Microsoft news site.
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