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Title: Google employee reveals company's efforts to push political narratives
Post by: mountaineer on March 20, 2018, 07:12:12 pm

This is not a sourced news article, but something I read on twitter. So, for what it's worth:

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Praying Medic    @prayingmedic

43) A person claiming to be an anonymous Google employee posted this on 4chan. It details Google's plan to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to push political narratives on social media.

They accuse us of being Russian bots while they use real bots. (Projection)
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Title: Re: Google employee reveals company's efforts to push political narratives
Post by: mountaineer on March 20, 2018, 07:16:37 pm

From CNN:

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Google unveils plans to boost news subscriptions and combat fake news
by Brian Stelter 
March 20, 2018: 1:30 PM ET

Google says it is committing $300 million over the next three years to help "strengthen quality journalism."

On Tuesday, the search company announced several new tools and partnerships with newsrooms, all placed under an umbrella called the Google News Initiative.  ...

The most significant part might be a new feature called Subscribe with Google. People will be able to sign up for news subscriptions with the existing billing information Google already has on file, thus eliminating some of the hassle associated with web subscriptions.

Google has already been testing this feature with papers like The Washington Post. "We're committed to building a product that works for publishers of various shapes and sizes," the company said in a blog post on Tuesday. ...

There's a Disinfo Lab, set up with the Shorenstein Center at Harvard's Kennedy School, "to combat mis- and disinformation during elections and breaking news moments."  ...

Full story (http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/20/media/google-news-initiative/index.html).
 *****rollingeyes*****

Title: Re: Google employee reveals company's efforts to push political narratives
Post by: mountaineer on March 20, 2018, 07:18:13 pm

IT Guy   @ITGuy1959
2h2 hours ago
Replying to @Rockprincess818

Google built AI system & data hog named "ADA" that drove all HRC campaign decisions. The quid pro quid was Google was going to promote it post election (after she won), similar to marketing of IBM's "Watson" after 'Jeopardy' match. This is covered extensively in book "Shattered".

Title: Re: Google employee reveals company's efforts to push political narratives
Post by: truth_seeker on March 20, 2018, 07:38:20 pm

@mountaineer  Thanks for posting this stuff, which expands on and proves what many have suspected.

The left are ahead, in terms of using this to advantage. By contrast the right, are mere babes in the woods so to say.

I do not see the clocks turning backwards. I do not see the left stopping.