Las Vegas] Atlantic: Google and Facebook Failed Us

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

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: October 3, 2017 at 11:20:47 AM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] [Las Vegas] Atlantic: Google and Facebook Failed Us
>
>
> [Las Vegas] Atlantic: Google and Facebook Failed Us
>
> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/10/google-and-facebook-have-failed-us/541794/
>
>      In the crucial early hours after the Las Vegas mass shooting,
>    it happened again: Hoaxes, completely unverified rumors,
>    failed witch hunts, and blatant falsehoods spread across the
>    internet.  But they did not do so by themselves:  They used
>    the infrastructure that Google and Facebook and YouTube have
>    built to achieve wide distribution.  These companies are the
>    most powerful information gatekeepers that the world has ever
>    known, and yet they refuse to take responsibility for their
>    active role in damaging the quality of information reaching
>    the public.  BuzzFeed's Ryan Broderick found that Google's
>    "top stories" results surfaced 4chan forum posts about a man
>    that right-wing amateur sleuths had incorrectly identified as
>    the Las Vegas shooter.  4chan is a known source not just of
>    racism, but hoaxes and deliberate misinformation. In any list
>    a human might make of sites to exclude from being labeled as
>    "news," 4chan would be near the very top.
>
> - - -
>
> --Lauren--



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