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"Google's Featured Snippets Are Worse Than Fake News"
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 15:49:31 -0500
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From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com> Date: March 5, 2017 at 3:47:08 PM EST To: nnsquad () nnsquad org Subject: [ NNSquad ] "Google's Featured Snippets Are Worse Than Fake News" "Google's Featured Snippets Are Worse Than Fake News" https://theoutline.com/post/1192/google-s-featured-snippets-are-worse-than-fake-news Back to Shulman and his students. The result Google was quoting came from an article in Trent Online, a site that bills itself as a "leading Internet Newspaper in Nigeria," titled "REVEALED: 5 US Presidents Members Of Racist Cult Ku Klux Klan (PHOTOS)." On closer inspection, the Trent Online article notes that this piece originally appeared on a site called iloveblackpeople.net. The article says that William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Harry Truman were members of the KKK. The only sources cited are the Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton and KKK.org. "I understand what Google is trying to do, and it's work that perhaps requires algorithmic aid," Shulman said in an email. "But in this instance, the question its algorithm scoured the internet to answer is simply a poorly conceived one. There have been no presidents in the Klan." - - -
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