"Google's Featured Snippets Are Worse Than Fake News"

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

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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"
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> "Google's Featured Snippets Are Worse Than Fake News"
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> https://theoutline.com/post/1192/google-s-featured-snippets-are-worse-than-fake-news
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>      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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