Posted on 08/19/2017 7:12:23 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
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... (snip)
...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.
On the surface, this looks rather innocuous... (Snip) ...But a quick glance at the list of partners for this project should raise some red flags:
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Not being a coder, I can only go by the use of the Chromium 60 code which is used by Chrome - a Google product. Perhaps Opera uses the same graphic chip code as vivaldi and Chrome do.
Google is the best search engine if you are doing a non-political search. I hate Google but have not managed to wean myself off of it, I'm just too lazy to ramble through pages of hits looking for the data I'm after.
After seeing your post, I added Duck-Duck-Go to my browser search. I intend to give it a good try, but my actions don't always follow my intentions.
I don't search much for stuff where Google's political stance afffects the results.
I’ve been using Google maps. Anyone know of a good alternative?
Google has been telling us about this for nearly two months now.
Is nobody paying attention?
At the beginning of the month I posted YouTube's statement STRAIGHT FROM YOUTUBE THEMSELVES that they will now be hiding "controversial" (i.e. conservative) videos that offend liberal sensibilities but do not otherwise violate their policies.
An update on our commitment to fight terror content online (Youtube will hide controversial videos)
It garnered practically no interest.
People, this is serious! Google has the power to silence conservatives not by banning their media but by basically making it so nobody can find it.
There should be apps which use this. I believe “inRoute” is one.
Also posted here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3579045/posts
The sooner we purge the secular universities, the better off we’ll be.
Thanks. I’ll check this out.
Thanks for the info. I just installed Pale Moon. I used it in the past and was happy with it.
Am mac, Pale Moon not availabe
Brave works on Mac.
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