Re Chronicle of Higher Education: Google and the Misinformed Public

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

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> From: Thomas Leavitt <thomleavitt () gmail com>
> Date: January 18, 2017 at 2:26:30 PM EST
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Chronicle of Higher Education: Google and the Misinformed Public
>
> Dave,
>
> It sounds like there's a market opportunity here for a search engine that explicitly provides context for search 
> results: credibility, fact checking, bias (not as a value judgement), research articles vs. journalism reporting on 
> them, etc. Could also incorporate some form of crowd sourcing, etc.
>
> Would be an interesting technical challenge to make this applicable across a broad range of searches, and of course 
> there's the business case (or lack thereof) and going up against Google. On the other hand, it seems like there's a 
> real need for genuine innovation in the space, and some obvious candidates that would likely be interested in 
> executing an buy out for a successful implementation prior to the company going to market.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas Leavitt
>
> > On Jan 17, 2017 10:13 AM, "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > > 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--
> > > REPORT Fake News Here! - https://factsquad.com
> > > CRUSHING the Internet Liars - https://vortex.com/crush-net-liars
> >
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