Inside Google’s Struggle to Filter Lies From Breaking News

Yay .. Right? Right??

Google. Lies. Breaking News. You love this, you live for this stuff.

It's feeding time.

Facebook has a fake news problem. Google has an evil unicorn problem. “Evil unicorns” — a term some Google engineers once coined, according to a former executive — are unverified posts on obscure topics, full of lies. In an ideal world, Google’s search algorithm should force these fake, pernicious creatures so low in search results that they are buried deep in the web where few can find them.

Here's the problem: These unicorns — no, they've got nothing to do with highly valued startups — are designed to surface in a void. And after a breaking news event, like a mass shooting, there’s scant verified information for Google’s engine to promote. As Jonathan Swift once wrote, falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after.

Is google part of the problem or the solution? Should we just toss Google by the way side and carry on? Is Google even worth it? I'm beginning to think not. Google had it's chance, and it failed. Google... Kiss my ass! Unicorn

Stop calling them Google.

Start calling them by their real name -- Ministry of Truth.

Look it up.

a reply to: ketsuko

haha you're right.

originally posted by: ketsuko
Stop calling them Google.

Start calling them by their real name -- Ministry of Truth.

Look it up.

Yep , looking for my Patronus now...

a reply to: Gothmog

My Unicorn took a left.

a reply to: Gothmog

How honorable of you. Here have a Unicorn.

Google Lies.

Facebook has a fake news agenda. Google is an evil unicorn. “Evil unicorns” — a term some Google engineers once coined, according to a former executive — is Google's Motto, because It is full of lies. In an ideal world, Google’s search algorithm shouldnt target Its users for advanced NSA analysis via AI tracking.

Google... Kiss my ass!

a reply to: Gothmog

And then it went postal.

a reply to: IgnoranceIsntBlisss

Awesome. lol.

Google had it's chance, and it failed. Google... Kiss my ass!

Nya Nya Unicorn Really ?? Google=biased and creates protected groups on the net. Richard Dawkins and Memetics. If one wants to join the winning team , one has to be liberal because Google is. This creates an internet that is full of lies and hatred. It's google that is partly responsible for the mess society is in. Being part of the fake propaganda machine it slowly destroys free-speech and creates rascism where there is none.

If any I hope that Google will die a quick death soon.

a reply to: frenchfries

If any I hope that Google will die a quick death soon.

We can only hope.

a reply to: BotheLumberJack

Uh.........since when does anyone go to "Google" for news? NPR?

a reply to: TonyS

Future generations. Let's sit back and tell them they ate doing it wrong, from a distance.