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Google introduces its new global censorship tool
expose-news.com ^ | August 13, 2023 | Rhoda Wilson

Posted on 08/13/2023 5:47:19 PM PDT by ransomnote

Google has partnered with the United Nations, World Health Organisation and others in a new global censorship tool that was introduced last Monday, according to LaToya Drake, head of Google News Lab.


Google News Lab is “a team within the Google News Initiative whose mission is to collaborate with journalists to fight misinformation” and other things. And, the Google News Initiative (“GNI”) “works with publishers and journalists to fight misinformation.” The GNI and its Lab seem to be one and the same thing with the Lab simply being a page on the GNI website.

Below are the short descriptions from GNI’s ‘About’ page.  The titles are misleading.  For example, following the ‘Our partners’ hyperlink contained in the words “learn more” does not lead to a list or overview of its partners.  It leads to ‘Case Studies’: Some “stories” about “how news organisations around the world are growing their news coverage and digital businesses.”  After which Google advertises some other of its products and invites the reader to “sign up for our newsletter.”

We truly have entered the era of George Orwell’s Doublethink and Doublespeak.

Google’s Global Censorship Tool

Last week, Swiss software developer Dejan Georgiev tweeted: “Google’s new global censorship tool was introduced today [7 August] at 9:10 am via an email press release.”

The following uses the points that Geogiev highlighted about GNI’s new censorship tool as a backbone to which we have added information for context. A copy of the Twitter thread above, with some additional comments, can also be read on Naked Truth News HERE.

GNI doesn’t describe itself for what it is – the global internet censorship – instead Google describes it as “Fact Check Tools.”


Source: New global internet censorship began today, Naked Truth News, 7 August 2023

What is GNI’s true purpose? Its purpose is to eliminate dissent on any topic Google chooses. “The algorithms are Google’s last-ditch attempt to control the internet before people worldwide can no longer access it.  The goal is to have one point of view. Google calls it ‘Data Commons’,” Naked Truth News wrote.

Hosted by Google, Data Commons aggregates data from a wide range of sources into a unified database.  It is a collection of data and tools which, broadly speaking, comprise a “knowledge graph” linking data from numerous open sources, supporting schemas, an API to access data in the graph, a graph browser, and a fact-check dataset.

It links references to the same entities – such as cities, counties, organisations, etc. – across different datasets to nodes on the graph, so that users can access data about a particular entity aggregated from different sources.  In other words, it allows someone to query a person or entity and all the information about that person or entity within Google’s database is displayed.

The Data Commons site was launched in May 2018 with an initial dataset consisting of fact-checking data published in ClaimReview format by several “fact-checkers” from Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network and Duke Reporters’ Lab.

By October 2018, Data Commons reported that the release of the sample dataset had stimulated further interest in the study of misinformation and that it had “received requests from academia to update the fact check corpus regularly and allow more publishers and non-technical users to add ClaimReview markups.” These requests were satisfied by the introduction of a suite of Google-based fact-check tools.

In October 2020, Data Commons became accessible in Google search: “We are excited to share that Data Commons is accessible via natural language queries in Google search.  At a time when data informs our understanding of so many issues – from public health and education to the evolving workforce and more – access to data has never been more important. Data Commons in Google search is a step in this direction, enabling users to explore data without the need for expertise or programming skills.”

In a video published a week ago, LaToya Drake encouraged “fact-checkers” and journalists to explore the digital tools designed specifically for them to help “verify the authenticity and accuracy” of online images, videos, and reports.

ransomnote: video is available on website and on YOUTUBE.

Google News Initiative: Google tools for fact-checkers, 4 August 2023 (4 mins)

Far from the noble intention of assisting with the factual verification of information online, Geogiev wrote that Google’s algorithms are designed to delete websites that criticise topics such as:

Read more: Data Commons Updates, 1 June 2021

Other topics include:

Read more: Data Commons Updates, 10 October 2021

“All data supports one global government under the United Nations banner.  Google has the only say on what news gets read or blocked from the internet,” Naked Truth News wrote.

Read more: Google News policies

GNI’s Partners

Wikipedia’s page for Data Commons states: “Google has worked with partners including the United States Census, the World Bank, and US Bureau of Labor Statistics to populate the repository, which also hosts data from Wikipedia, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”

The Data Commons website adds: “Data Commons has benefited greatly from many collaborations. In addition to help from the US Department of Commerce (notably the Census Bureau), we have received help from our many academic collaborations, including, UC San Francisco, Stanford University, UC Berkeley and Harvard.”

But to understand the magnitude of GNI’s network, you can view a non-exhaustive 71-page list of its more than 7,000 partners HERE.  This document can be accessed, not via the hyperlink under ‘Our partners’ on its ‘About’ page as previously noted but buried, on GNI’s ‘2021 Impact Report’ page (see image below).


Google News Initiative, 2021 Impact Report, Delivering significant value and funding to news organisations, retrieved 12 August 2023

Further reading:

Last but not least, meet the online persona of LaToya Drake, Head of Google News Lab who announced the arrival of Google’s new global censorship tool, and who clearly does not want to be fact-checked by anyone from outside her network:



LaToya Drake on Twitter, retrieved 12 August 2023

 


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To: yldstrk

I’ve never used gmail. My ISP has its own email platform.


41 posted on 08/13/2023 6:48:23 PM PDT by Gaffer ( )
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To: ransomnote

A mob of white people robbed Nordstrom’s.

THAT STATEMENT IS INCORRECT.

Joe Biden is worth $1 million.

JOE BIDEN IS WORTH...


42 posted on 08/13/2023 6:50:13 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Article II, Section 2: "The President...may require the opinion, in writing,...upon any subject...")
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To: Brian Griffin

There is no comparison between 16 and 20.


43 posted on 08/13/2023 6:52:35 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Secret Agent Man

It’s active on YouTube right now. I have had a number comments removed real time. Nothing extreme at all. I was commenting on a Bud Light video and and I said they were afraid of the LBGT mob and it was removed immediately. I changed it “you know who” and it stayed. In another l said the “wretched Megan Rapinoe “ and that got removed. I took out the word wretched and it stayed.


44 posted on 08/13/2023 7:01:04 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Gaffer

Agree with you. I am totally off the grid. Always have been. The Google Cabal is not just leftist. They are Marxist to the core.


45 posted on 08/13/2023 7:05:15 PM PDT by carikadon (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: ransomnote

Google fact check tools, ahh yes, what a joke. It’s nothing new, just rebranded fact checking coming out into the open.

Fact checking to the left is merely calling the truth a lie and a lie the truth.


46 posted on 08/13/2023 7:06:22 PM PDT by redfreedom (Joseph Stalin: "It does not mater how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
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To: Secret Agent Man

It’s not “censorship.” Google is merely “de-emphasizing.” X’s (Twitter’s) new CEO plans to do the same. I love leftist euphemisms.


47 posted on 08/13/2023 7:10:33 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ransomnote

G**gle is the largest censor and manipulator of information that has ever existed.

Every piece of software (or firmware) G**gle gives away, from Android to the Chrome browser, exists primarily to gather information surreptitiously on its users.


48 posted on 08/13/2023 7:18:28 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Removing words is censorship. No matter what googlehole calls it.

Yep I coined it. GOOGLEHOLE


49 posted on 08/13/2023 7:25:05 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ransomnote
GNI
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50 posted on 08/13/2023 7:25:50 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Gaffer

Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google.


51 posted on 08/13/2023 7:46:56 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: ransomnote
Here's all the people who believe Google's fact checkers...

52 posted on 08/13/2023 7:50:23 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Google and the new Twitter CEO.


53 posted on 08/13/2023 7:54:35 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ransomnote
I never use Google Chrome. I got off brands of Chromium, and I even got basic Chromium itself. I will never use actual Google Chrome. But it looks like I may have to invest in a different email address as I will likely dump GMail soon.

Thanks for the post Ransomnote.

54 posted on 08/13/2023 8:47:35 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: Brian Griffin

Historically when free speech ends, the killing begins.


55 posted on 08/13/2023 9:20:36 PM PDT by LFOD (Formerly - Iraq, Afghanistan - here to stay...,)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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56 posted on 08/13/2023 9:31:51 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=40%>)
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To: GrumpyOldGuy

Well, I just deleted ALL my google accounts.


57 posted on 08/13/2023 10:20:12 PM PDT by Segovia
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To: ransomnote

I’m old enough to remember when Gulagle was not evil.


58 posted on 08/14/2023 12:04:26 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: SamuraiScot

I thought it was a car made in Japan.


59 posted on 08/14/2023 12:05:41 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: ransomnote

Probably a good idea to NOT click on any of those links.

I stay away rom ANYTHING related to Google


60 posted on 08/14/2023 12:08:10 AM PDT by Syncro (God is Good Facts is Facts)
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