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Google Executives Are Floating a Plan To Fight Fake News on Facebook and Twitter (qz.com)
Fake news, bots, and propaganda were hot topics at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos last month, and Google executives there floated an intriguing idea to some fellow attendees -- what if the company could tell users whether information is trustworthy before they shared it on social networks like Facebook and Twitter? From a report: Representatives from Google and its parent company Alphabet eagerly discussed how the company can play a greater role in reducing misleading information online, several Davos attendees involved in and briefed on these conversations told Quartz. A notification system, perhaps via an optional extension for Google's Chrome browser, was an idea that these people said was broached more than once. Such a browser-based system controlled by Google could alert users on Facebook's or Twitter's websites when they're seeing or sharing a link deemed to be false or untrustworthy.
Right now, this appears to be merely an idea company executives are discussing, not a product in development.
To Google, fake news is anything they don't agree with. As James Damore's memo showed, Google have no interest in the truth, they just want to push their own agenda.
Google isn't remotely trustworthy, and certainty shouldn't be trusted to tell us what news is fake.
Yet they are scourge of society that enabled Trump
Higher approval rating than Obama at this point in his term. Lowest unemployment in 45 years. Highest black employment in history. Yeah a real fucking scourge alright because you don't like his Twitter posts.
Guess what, fuck you. Want to know who the scourge is? Shit lipped ass kissing losers like you having a constant fucking hissy fit over a lost election over a year after the fact. Move on or fuck off. No one cares about your temper tantrum. How the fuck are you not embarrassed for yourself?