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Google Launches a News Initiative To Fight False News and Help Publishers Make Money (cnbc.com)
Google is launching the Google News Initiative, a journalism-focused program that will help publishers earn revenue and combat fake news. From a report: The initiative, announced Tuesday, will offer publications another monetization model online called Subscribe with Google, as well as work with established universities and groups to combat misinformation. It will also introduce an open-source tool called Outline, which will make it easier for news organizations to set up secure access to the internet for their journalists. Google said it was committing $300 million over the next three years to the project, though it did not elaborate on how the resources would be spent.
The company said it paid $12.6 billion to news organizations and drove 10 billion clicks a month to their websites for free last year. Subscribe with Google will make it easier for readers to pay for content from news organizations that have agreed to partner with the company. FT.com, The Washington Post, and McClatchy Company publications including the Miami Herald are among the 17 launch partners.
The company said it paid $12.6 billion to news organizations and drove 10 billion clicks a month to their websites for free last year. Subscribe with Google will make it easier for readers to pay for content from news organizations that have agreed to partner with the company. FT.com, The Washington Post, and McClatchy Company publications including the Miami Herald are among the 17 launch partners.
How long will nerds fetishize monster tech corps like Google? It's a big part of the problem.
I'd give you biased, and occasionally quite dishonest, but they're not going out of their way to invent things that did not happen.
LOL.. Oh yes they have gone out of their way to invent things. Specifically about Trump and his administration they have reported stuff based on "unnamed sources" which frequently turned out wrong and/or misleading.
Their motives for doing this are likely more about selling advertisements and making a profit than politics, but they HAVE been doing this kind of thing regularly.
Journalism Ethics are dead in this country, mainly because they don't get you clicks or viewers.. Trump is just a tempting target, who by pointing out the "fake news" actually helps them get clicks and viewers..
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I don't know about how it happened in US, but here in Europe after the Cold War there was a period of relief and optimism. Meanwhile, the institutions of higher learning in the humanities were taken over by leftists, especially by left-leaning women. Now this had been going on for a while, but it was not as readily apparent as during the Cold War, when most of the leftists were clearly identified by their positive view on the Soviet Union.
This new generation of leftists found their fill of socialism in the form of globalization, spearheaded in Europe by the European Union. Drunken by peace and economic growth, we had let our guard down, and didn't realize how these new socialist were now delivering our news to us, until we fell on hard times in the form of economic crisis, followed by uncontrolled migration. Many of us, especially men, then realized that the news presented the world in a totally different light than the one we knew.
This led into a sort of information war, where often unofficial and right-leaning information sources began to pop up, soon to be stomped out by the opposing side of the political spectrum. This led into an escalation of opinions, where opposites tried to get their message heard by shouting ever louder, leading to the division we have now. The lines are strongly drawn, and the critical topics seem to be a) globalization vs. the role of the nation-state, b) immigration, and c) economic policy, often strongly intertwined.