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On Google Now, "news" sites like infowars, globalresearch.ca and on reign supreme, unless you manually filter them out. This hoax about "staged" MH17 crash is o
by varjag 10y ago
On Google Now, "news" sites like infowars, globalresearch.ca and on reign supreme, unless you manually filter them out. This hoax about "staged" MH17 crash is on my newsfeed why.. oh right "because you displayed interest in Ukrainian conflict". Fair enough then!
It is scary how much the default app on Android serves to legitimize the fringe.
- ino 10y agoIt's also on Google Home, and having a voice say the lies makes it even scarier: https://twitter.com/ruskin147/status/838445095410106368/video/1 https://twitter.com/ruskin147/status/838445095410106368/vide... edit: I saw now this video lower on the article, I thought it ended on "SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER"
- varjag 10y agoYikes. Google held onto releasing their Chaffeur because of the "uncanny valley" problem, where they thought the tech would do more harm than good in its "sort of working" stage. Perhaps they should have done the same with this.
- bigbugbag 10y agoWelcome to your very own filter bubble.
- varjag 10y agoI'm not sure what to make of your comment. It it some new clothes of middle ground fallacy? Should I give equal consideration to every opinion, no matter how outlandish? Do I have to read from Moon hoax people just because I watched a SpaceX launch or flatearthers since I clicked on NatGeo piece last week?
- benmcnelly 10y agoOh look another "the moon landing was real" guy. ^ See what I did there? I made a comment on the Internet, and called into question the legitimacy of your comments. Anyone can do it! So what we really need is HN to moderate our comments to filter out comments like yours so that we can just read the truth without having to filter out the garbage. I don't want to hear about how you think the the earth is round just because I'm on a NASA thread. One thing for sure is this is HN's fault.
- varjag 10y agoEdgy a.f., but what any of that wonderful rant has to do with my original point?
- benmcnelly 10y agoSorry, I assumed a lot of things there I think. I gathered from what you were saying that you were falling with the popular opinion that Google should filter out "fake news" from its search results (or at least the focused results). So from that perspective, I was trying to draw parallels on how silly it is to demand such a thing.
- driverdan 10y agoI don't see any of that garbage.