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0 pointstyingq3y ago0 comments

Not saying Google is turning down conservative search results, but they absolutely can. Using the same cycle of human raters and tweaking weights they used to push down comparison shopping sites.

See http://graphics.wsj.com/google-ftc-report/

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mhh__3y ago

It's the man in a room part I was emphasising. It's simultaneously massively incorrect about how software actually works, misunderstands social dynamics inside companies, and massively stokes the fire when it comes to conspiracy theories along these lines (in this case at least)

lupire3y ago

There absolutely are explicit lists of controversial words that get weights on the models for up/down ranking or hiding content or flagging for manual review.

It's also true that these lists are only a small part of what affects your fringe website or twitter accounts.

mistermann3y ago

Are you claiming that you have comprehensive objective knowledge of what did and did not happen in privileged Twitter operations across time, or is this more like your opinion on the matter? And if the latter, how is it that some people's opinions "don't make sense" or "are dog whistles", but yours are epistemically flawless (assuming you actually believe them to be true, of course)?

nullc3y ago

So you're saying google doesn't have infrastructure to allow a human specified list of keywords or domain names to "Twiddle" the results returned in varrious services such as news, search, and youtube for the purpose of artificial promotion or de-boosting?

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