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We absolutely should not throw up our hands. To some extent, I appreciate that Google and Facebook are at least aware of the issue and want to act on it. My ske
by ssharp 10y ago
We absolutely should not throw up our hands. To some extent, I appreciate that Google and Facebook are at least aware of the issue and want to act on it. My skepticism is that as a result of these efforts, Google and Facebook will be considered to be biased, inaccurate, and no longer trustworthy. There is already a lot of animosity towards Silicon Valley companies as it is.
I certainly hope that if there is 70% of the population this can still help, that it accomplishes that goal without making the other 30% even worse.
- theWatcher37 10y agoGoogle of all companies has no moral authority to be "filtering" anything based on "facts", given that they were shown to manipulate search auto-completes with political bias.
- croon 10y agoIf you're referring to the Soros thing you've both: * Drunk the Kool-Aid * Ignored doing the most rudimentary test of replacing his name with any other and matching results.
- ecopoesis 10y agoNot true. http://www.snopes.com/google-manipulate-hillary-clinton/ http://www.snopes.com/google-manipulate-hillary-clinton/ Maybe Hacker News needs fact checking integration also.
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- mizzack 10y ago[Refutation of bias] [link to biased refutation] Snopes is definitely ideologically biased. http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/16/snopes-facebooks-new-fact-checker-employs-leftists-almost-exclusively/ http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/16/snopes-facebooks-new-fact-... Looks like we're stuck in a loop here.