it has been a mistake to think of FNC as friendly territory for quite some time now
Thank you for your insight.
Very interesting.
I wonder if blocking the google and google related Java ‘bots’ in my browsers and having all the google websites blocked (sent to 127.0.0.1) in the HOSTS file, would mess with the FauxNoose - Google algorithms.
I’ve been ranting about Google spying for years, but no one believes me, or if they do believe it, they don’t care, being addicted to all the ‘free’ stuff Google gives them.
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And at least here at FR, even though there is a google tracker on every page, at least there is no shadow banning... And I rarely even go to Faux, and have never commented there.
Fox News comments are infested with trolls engaged in ad hominem attacks or squeezing out unsubstantiated liberal talking points devoid of critical thought.
Great...now please start a conservative tech blog, and Patreon account so I can donate. This was brilliant, and VERY important. Sadly, FR has relatively low ratings, and many more people need to see this. Thank you
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I don’t go to the FoxNews website anymore. Can’t stand all the pop-up ads and videos before I can get to the articles. I am not a computer genius so I don’t understand most of what you posted but I do agree we are being controlled by the Left and this crap has to stop. Sure hope Trump can do something about it.
I thought it was MSNBC that used to allow comments.
Anyway, Samoa changed its time zone from -12 GMT (or +12?) to +13 GMT. The story said that Samoa would now have the “earliest sunrise.”
I commented that “earliest civil midnight” was not the same thing as “earliest sunrise.”
My comment was deleted, and the story was not changed.
Thanks, very interesting.
I have often thought that some things on Facebook, or online, are put out there specifically to collect data on people, or to train AI programs to deduce things about them. Things like “Take this Quiz”, “Do you Remember” or “Can you Name”.
Somewhere else, I recall reading that a main effort of Google, was to compile a database of the population, that included measures of psychological or attitudinal tendencies. They would draw input from multiple sources to fill out the fields and expand the file on individuals. That database itself could be used to train algorithms.
What magazines someone subscribed to could correlate with/indicate their political leanings; what music they listened to might correlate with/indicate their age, gender or ethnicity; etc.
Supposedly, it was this kind of trove of information on the population (some populated from Government databases or on Government contracts) that Eric Schmidt spun off to a new company he formed to help the Democrats in their election efforts of identifying (and more effectively manipulating) voters.
In addition to their algorithms, they have psychologists working to identify more ways to identify characteristics they can exploit, like shopping or voting decision making factors, and how those vary among groups - for targeting messaging, or manipulative sales techniques.
Big Brother is watching.
I don’t use Google and don’t comment on Fox Snooze.
Problem solved.
Thanks for posting this interesting look “under the hood”. This is just another reason to use Dissenter for commenting.
Personally I don’t waste my time commenting anywhere except for FR.
I try and stay away from any situation where my data may be collected and stored and sold. Cyber experts say it is impossible to be anonymous online. I accept that but endeavor to make myself as invisible as possible.
To me, posting comments on a leftist website like Fox News is just asking for trouble. Why waste the time?
The implications of your tremendous analysis are staggering. You’ve revealed Big Data Brother at work.
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Can you do me a favor?
Run some old Obama and Clinton quotes - of the type they won’t today admit they said - through the analyzer and post the results. Any quotes on border enforcement or inner-city crime, or any of their fake pro forma confessions of patriotism, will do well for the exercise.
Interesting