Eric Schmidt Says Google News Will 'Engineer' Russian Propaganda Out of the Feed (vice.com)

Justin Ling, writing for Motherboard: Eric Schmidt, Executive Chariman of Alphabet, says the company is working to ferret out Russian propaganda from Google News after facing criticism that Kremlin-owned media sites had been given plum placement on the search giant's news and advertising platforms. "We're well aware of this one, and we're working on detecting this kind of scenario you're describing and deranking those kinds of sites," Schmidt said, after being asked why the world's largest search company continued to classify the Russian sites as news. Schmidt, in an interview at the Halifax International Security Forum over the weekend, name-checked two state-owned enterprises. "It's basically RT and Sputnik," Schmidt added. "We're well aware and we're trying to engineer the systems to prevent it."

Comments

Re: Censorship, plain and simple

[Anonymous Coward]

Any post expressing conservative positions is by definition wrong, that's why they get modded down. There is no /. conspiracy at work here, just normal common sense.

Re:Liberals won't like this

[Ol Olsoc]

When? They've been looking and looking and looking. Year and half now. Still nothing.

Your rock called, says you need to get back under it.