Posted on 12/12/2016 6:49:58 PM PST by Lorianne
Hate sites are dominating and controlling searches on Muslims, Jews, Hitler and women and search engine is failing to tackle problem, say academics __ Google must urgently review its search ranking system because of compelling evidence that it is being manipulated and controlled by rightwing propagandists, leading academics have said, after the Observer reported that hate sites are now dominating searches on Muslims, Jews, Hitler and women.
Cathy ONeil, a data scientist and the author of Weapons on Math Destruction, said that unless Google acknowledged responsibility for the problem, it would be a co-conspirator with the propagandists. This is the end for Google pretending to be a neutral platform, she said. It clearly has a terrible problem here and it has to own and acknowledge that.
It simply cant go on pretending that it has no editorial responsibilities when it is delivering these kinds of results. It is simply not defensible for it go on claiming plausible deniability. It has clearly become a conduit for rightwing hate sites and it must urgently take action.
The Observer found that searches for are jews were offering the suggestion are jews evil, and nine out of the 10 top results gave links to rightwing antisemitic hate sites. Google refused to comment on the individual search results, but on Sunday, it moved to change some but not all of the autocomplete suggestions that the report highlighted.
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I hope Trump can make the internet free from Google oppression again.
HANDS UP AND STEP AWAY FROM THE SMARTPHONE!
“Did it occur to them that it could be muslims living in the west who are searching about Jews?”
Good point!!! How can Google justify denying them the hate-the-Jews sites that they seek? They will BURN IN HELL for that stunt.
After all, it’s not like one of us trying to find Trump’s foreign policy plans.
Did you just assume its gender???
lol
I am busted, called out, and shamed.
Phony news.
It tortures the imagination to believe that groups like Stormfront can afford search engine optimization.
Apple, Twitter, Google, Instagram collude to defeat Trump
http://observer.com/2016/08/tech-companies-apple-twitter-google-and-instagram-collude-to-defeat-trump/
They are lying thru their teeth! I now avoid Google because they started censoring search! I use Dogpile now. I’m tired of their deciding what I can access and what I can’t. They are anti-Trump.
Fail to toe the liberal line.
"Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Who knew websites for leading candidate for DNC Chairman Keef Ellison X is rightwing ?
Ever notice how much Leftists overuse the word “must”? MUST do this, MUST take action, MUST MUST MUST!!! Whatever happened to the good old days of “Do your own thing, baby!” /s;)
OK, just take her any way.
LOL - the left has treated all conservative viewpoints as “hate” because they hate things like morals, values, ethics and decency. There is no right-wing manipulation, this is the natural result of free people reading the information that interests them and posting their insights. It’s not our fault they hate us, it’s theirs.
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