Google is surprisingly shit today, actively pushing current events over historic ones despite search filters (weirdly reminiscent of LLM attention issues and bi

Google is surprisingly shit today, actively pushing current events over historic ones despite search filters (weirdly reminiscent of LLM attention issues and biases to recency). I’ll see if I can find the primary ones, they are from the archives after the Soviet collapse. Secondary reading: Adrian Chen, “The Agency,” New York Times Magazine, June 2, 2015, and Peter Pomerantsev and Michael Weiss, The Menace of Unreality: How the Kremlin Weaponizes Information, Culture and Money, New York: https://tnsr.org/2022/09/whats-old-is-new-again-cold-war-lessons-for-countering-disinformation/ https://tnsr.org/2022/09/whats-old-is-new-again-cold-war-les... Institute of Modern Russia and The Interpreter, 2014. https://css.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/cis/center-for-securities-studies/resources/docs/NDC%20fm_9.pdf https://css.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/c...