Posted on 08/20/2017 6:56:16 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Google revealed in a blog post that it is now using machine learning to document "hate crimes and events" in America. They've partnered with liberal groups like ProPublica, BuzzFeed News, and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to make information about "hate events" easily accessible to journalists. And now, there are troubling signs that this tool could be used to ferret out writers and websites that run afoul of the progressive orthodoxy.
In the announcement, Simon Rogers, data editor of Google News Labs, wrote:
Now, with ProPublica, we are launching a new machine learning tool to help journalists covering hate news leverage this data in their reporting.
The Documenting Hate News Index — built by the Google News Lab, data visualization studio Pitch Interactive and ProPublica — takes a raw feed of Google News articles from the past six months and uses the Google Cloud Natural Language API to create a visual tool to help reporters find news happening across the country. It’s a constantly-updating snapshot of data from this year, one which is valuable as a starting point to reporting on this area of news.
The Documenting Hate project launched in response to the lack of national data on hate crimes. While the FBI is required by law to collect data about hate crimes, the data is incomplete because local jurisdictions aren't required to report incidents up to the federal government.
All of which underlines the value of the Documenting Hate Project, which is powered by a number of different news organisations and journalists who collect and verify reports of hate crimes and events. Documenting Hate is informed by both reports from members of the public and raw Google News data of stories from across the nation.
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Google needs to be broken up for violating anti-trust laws. It is time to end the liberal commies insurrection
Yes.
I did a search before posting and it did not come up?
Yes, but it’s not just Google. My smartphone defaults to Bing for a search engine. If a site has the least right wing point of view, it’s blocked when I click on the link. If I use Duck, Duck, Go for a search engine, I get right through to the site. Bing has been getting progressively worse over the last 8 or 10 months, no pun intended.
Short answer - YES.
Lengthy answer - not needed; the short answer says it all.
Think of it as book burning - 21st Century style.
We will need to come up with an alternative; a Plan B, if you will.
Google is going to find out that nearly all “hate crimes” are caused by leftist. They will try to censor this information but will fail.
Today, the majority of hate crimes are committed AGAINST Christians. The New York Times editors and SPLC communist are leading in this effort.
Google may not fail as the people will see and hear what they want to hear and what they have been taught as children to hear. Unless there is a great awakening, I will have to do some research on the pendulum swing, we will continue to follow the evil.
does bing block FR?
Yes. Im sure people like this lady are advising them -
Remember this when you’re wondering why we have such racial division in this country. Identity politics is going to be the cause of our nations demise
Big tech is the new Fascists.
Nazi tactics being used by liberal elites and google? That’s much more scary than powerless losers carrying signs and shouting stupidity...
There is NO doubt why we have racial division
Hussein Obama. Sous. Pedestal. Clintons
They are all working to cause riots
It is what Rats do
Are these the people attacking FR?
Yes, there are at least two sites that I used to visit that are now shut down. Probably for my own good (sarc).
Not exactly. I can access FR, but it won’t allow me to see the top lines, where I would access my account to respond to comments, for example. It has a dark band across the top.
Bing uses Goolag search results.
I’ve had an enemy accuse me of being a racist because I post on freerepublic, which to her, is a racist website.
She called my boss to complain. I had already retired. Too late! Hee hee
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