Chronicle of Higher Education: Google and the Misinformed Public

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: January 17, 2017 at 11:20:06 AM EST
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Chronicle of Higher Education: Google and the Misinformed Public
>
>
> Chronicle of Higher Education: Google and the Misinformed Public
>
> http://www.chronicle.com/article/Googlethe-Misinformed/238868
>
>      Digital media platforms like Google and Facebook may disavow
>    responsibility for the results of their algorithms, but they
>    can have tremendous -- and disturbing -- social effects.
>    Racist and sexist bias, misinformation, and profiling are
>    frequently unnoticed byproducts of those algorithms. And
>    unlike public institutions (like the library), Google and
>    Facebook have no transparent curation process by which the
>    public can judge the credibility or legitimacy of the
>    information they propagate.  That misinformation can be
>    debilitating for a democracy -- and in some instances deadly
>    for its citizens.
>
> - - -
>
> --Lauren--
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