Last I heard, 4Chan founder Chris Poole now is employed by Google as of about a year ago. Shortly after that, people on various boards noticed /pol/ results etc

Last I heard, 4Chan founder Chris Poole now is employed by Google as of about a year ago. Shortly after that, people on various boards noticed /pol/ results etc. showing up in Google News. I'm not sure if there's a coincidence in that timing or not :) At any rate, yeah, someone had to approve including message boards as a potential source to scrape for news. Not a good decision in my mind -- 4Chan's reputation makes this decision even more questionable, sure, but I can't think of any general social media / message boards / comment sections / etc. that would qualify as "news" in my mind. Certainly this lowers the value of Google News to me.