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Google's a monopoly in multiple areas by any reasonable definition. So yes, I hope they are being entangled in a Cambridge Analytica type scandal. It is the jo
by frabcus 8y ago
Google's a monopoly in multiple areas by any reasonable definition.
So yes, I hope they are being entangled in a Cambridge Analytica type scandal. It is the job of the press to do so.
Personally, I think the YouTube recommendation algorithm is a huge problem. Once everyone understands it, that will be the relevant scandal.
How YouTube's recommendation algorithm makes everyone more extreme, in all directions: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-po...
How YouTube's recommendation algorithm causes creation of appalling content targeted at children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9EKV2nSU8w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9EKV2nSU8w
It is harming our society in deep and scary ways.
- econ4all 8y agoYou obviously dislike them and is willfully conflating a bunch of stuff but it's definitely not "the job of the press" to manufacture scandals.
- arminiusreturns 8y agoThe job they are supposed to do and the one they actually do are two different things.