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Google, Facebook, others are out of control because complex algoriths aren't up to the job!

Burgess COMMENTARY
This is a fund raiser, and in its own way, a problem ... but the bigger issue of having news flows managed by powerful algoriths has the potential to be an existential crisis to society as we want it. Some would argue that this is not an existential crisis for the future, but one that is already present, and I am inclined to that view. My 30 year old son gets a news flow that is very different from the news flow that I get, even though we do live on the same planet, and indeed not far apart. Too much information is a wonderful way of hiding important information, even before the addition of powerful technology and malicious intent.
Peter Burgess

Google Is Clamping Down on Progressive News—Fight Back

By now you may have heard about how Google launched a new algorithm designed to combat fake news.

Then came the shocker: Google targeted AlterNet as fake news, as well as dozens of other progressive news sites. Almost overnight, we lost roughly 1.2 million readers.



A giant conglomerate with no journalists or editors is deciding what you should read, watch and hear. If not stopped, Google will become an ever-tightening “information noose” for independent media and alternative voices.

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