> and people who don't understand why Google employees did not manually review just one out of one hundred thousand things that the search engine indexed that d

> and people who don't understand why Google employees did not manually review just one out of one hundred thousand things that the search engine indexed that day are suprised. This drumbeat in recent news where one Silicon Valley firm or another gets caught presenting content designed to illicit response either through outrage, sensationalism, confirmation bias, or whatever via algorithms designed by behavior scientists that find offensive, misleading, false or outright maliciously incorrect content for that purpose which is done via an automated process and then posted to the front pages of various places where people are known to seek information after which the firm apologizes profusely, reminds people that this is just computers finding stuff, and tells everyone not to worry... ...is getting really, really fucking old. You know damn well what your algorithm is looking for. You know damn well it's good at finding it. You know damn well what it's going to do when it finds it. The fact that it's done automated-ly is not an excuse to LET IT KEEP FUCKING DOING THAT and just throw up your hands as if it's something not intended and not designed to do exactly that while you continue raking in the ad revenue because of it. Google's the one in this story but it's far from the worst or only offender. How much longer exactly are we thinking on allowing Silicon Valley firms that make their money on promoting sensationalist garbage to continue to throw up their hands like it isn't exactly what they were meaning to do in pursuit of "eating the world" and walk away without so much as questioning if that may not be the best course of action?