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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."
Do I know that is biased in favor of Russia ? Sure I do. Just like the other media are biased in favor of their own country.
However , I have noticed that RT reports some news that are simply ignored or minimized by western media : quite helpful to try get a more complete picture.
Goolag : diversity everywhere, except when it comes to diversity of thought.
Sure seems like this sort of thing already happens on Slashdot. Ever notice how quickly any post expressing conservative positions is moderated to -1? It's becoming very obvious that there's a real effort to silence conservative views here. It's unclear whether the editors or liberal moderators are responsible, but there's little doubt that the same type of censorship is already present here. It's just called moderation and some people zealously defend it. But it's definitely a form of censorship, and Google will probably be doing something similar.
Have you been on Ars lately? It makes Slashdot look like a Tea Party meeting.
Leak was from an insider of DNC, nothing to do with Russians.
Show me one single story on CNN
That's not hard.
That's an outright fabrication, by stating "you can't download the dnc emails." CNN never retracted it. The entire point of it was to stop people from looking by making them fear that they'd be prosecuted.
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Remember some years ago when Rick Santorum was running for the Republican nomination, and he got Google-bombed?
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/e...
https://www.npr.org/2016/02/25...
The lib-left thought it was hilarious, and guffawed a lot. When Rick Santorum complained, Google essentially said "not our problem".
When it turns out that Google-fixing might have hurt Hillary Clinton's run for the presidency, things are totally different. The lib-left goes full-feminist "That's not funny". Google doesn't consider this to be "not our problem"; they're all over it like flies over shit.
I guess it depends on who's ox is being gored. Guess which party Silicon Valley supports.
I'm not repeating myself
I'm an X window user; I'm an ex-Windows user
Another AC on this thread has it right: this is not a story.
Chris Cuomo expressed an opinion on the law. Quite probably an incorrect one. But retracted or not, that doesn't make it fake news. It's just an opinion. Like your opinion that he did it deliberately to keep people from looking at the leaked e-mails. Whereas another tenable opinion is that he just got it wrong.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Chris Cuomo expressed an opinion on the law. Quite probably an incorrect one. But retracted or not, that doesn't make it fake news
Nope. That was during broadcast TV, not during an opinion segment. That means Cuomo presented that information not as opinion, but as fact. In turn, he explicitly says "that it's okay for the media to do it." That again isn't opinion, that's him implying during a non-opinion segment that only the media are protected.
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An edgy atheist way to say 'Christian'. Think of X-Mas for Christmas. Usually used by teenagers discovering atheism for the first time or adults who never got over growing up Christian and hold a grudge.