Showing posts with label Google search algorithm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google search algorithm. Show all posts

Friday, December 16, 2016

How Google's search algorithm spreads false information with a rightwing bias; Guardian, 12/16/16

Olivia Solon and Sam Levin, Guardian; How Google's search algorithm spreads false information with a rightwing bias:
"Google’s search algorithm appears to be systematically promoting information that is either false or slanted with an extreme rightwing bias on subjects as varied as climate change and homosexuality.
Following a recent investigation by the Observer, which found that Google’s search engine prominently suggests neo-Nazi websites and antisemitic writing, the Guardian has uncovered a dozen additional examples of biased search results.
Google’s search algorithm and its autocomplete function prioritize websites that, for example, declare that climate change is a hoax, being gay is a sin, and the Sandy Hook mass shooting never happened."