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The thing that scares me is that Google is probably right (my political leanings aside). It's scary because the political machine (the "news" and media) probab
by IanDrake 11y ago
The thing that scares me is that Google is probably right (my political leanings aside).
It's scary because the political machine (the "news" and media) probably gives off a signal that a deep neural network has learned. It might be that simple.
Our entire democracy could be exposed for the sham that it is. It doesn't matter what a candidate has done or says they're going to do, it only matters what media keeps saying about it 24/7.
I've seen this over and over. I'd tell someone about a particular congressmen's voting record and bills he's sponsored and they'll say "wow, that guy sounds too good to be true, I'd vote for him", then tell them it's Ron Paul's voting record and they'd say "That guys is crazy" and then repeat everything they've ever "heard" about him.
That's just one example, but voters only know candidates by the media's labels, not by their actions or platform.
- paulhauggis 11y agoIt's even worse on the Internet with younger voters. If you look at /politics on Reddit, it's all propaganda that bashes the opposition. Link titles are changed to invoke anger. I hate to see when this generation grows up and Twitter and Reddit are the sole sources of political information. The "hands up don't shoot" is a good example. Forensic evidence came out and it was proven that this never happened, yet it didn't fit the political narrative. CNN and most of the mainstream news continued to push it as if it was fact.