Search and social media was filled with clickbait and propaganda in the wake of Vegas shooting

["DAVID FARBER" <dfarber () me com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: October 2, 2017 at 2:20:48 PM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Search and social media was filled with clickbait and propaganda in the wake of Vegas shooting
>
>
> Search and social media was filled with clickbait and propaganda in the wake of Vegas shooting
>
> https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/02/search-and-social-media-was-filled-with-clickbait-and-propaganda-in-the-wake-of-vegas-shooting/?ncid=rss
>
>      In the wake of what is now the worst mass-shooting in U.S.
>    history, thousands of people turning to social media for
>    information on the unfolding investigation earlier this
>    morning would have found many of the top posts on most of the
>    major websites to be hot garbage.  Letting an algorithm cull
>    links from the sewer of internet commentary, and then
>    distributing that to millions of people, is a losing game.
>    It's another sign of how Facebook and the rest continue to
>    abdicate responsibility.  Google and the social media sites
>    say they're working on improving their hit rate for better
>    quality news sources, but today's spread in the aftermath of
>    the Las Vegas shooting shows just how much more work they have
>    to do.
>
> - - -
>
> --Lauren--



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