This is a very weird article. The text itself seems focused on factual information, but it’s surrounded with opinionated statements which I assume leans towards the site operator’s politics.
Google has been making search results opinionated for years. At least as far back as discounting results that have a lot off link farm hits. I think the thing that is upsetting people is the idea that they don’t have control over the narrative like they once might have.
HN is the only place where I see "reclaimthenet.org" pop up (and with strange frequency), and honestly the site itself pretty much seems like some kind of propaganda outlet.
there's intentionally misleading stuff in most articles and I honestly wonder who operates that site.
ReclaimTheNet is notoriously critical of big tech, so like with any article it's good to seek similar articles from other sources to have a better idea of the overall picture.
Definitely not a fan of this new wave of whatever you might call it... even-more-direct opinion management than the media already gives us, i guess. Whether it be Facebook partnering with the Atlantic Council, sites like Snopes, Google ranking down independent news or demonetizing peoples stuff, or this... seems like i'm only supposed to have CIA-approved opinions.
I could be wrong but isn’t this prioritizing content that cites sources? that seems like it could be valuable, we’re being crushed under waves of information that is utterly unreliable (which is a method of disinfo, intentional or not) and there are too many people that believe the first thing they read.
While some people's opinions aren't influenced by such measures, a lot of people are just waiting to have their opinion managed. They'll do literally anything they're told to do if managed correctly. This presents a danger if they're managed by bad actors. It's important for those opinions to be managed for good.
In theory this is useful, but the devil is in how this is determined; an algorithm will be gamed, and I doubt Google is putting humans into curating the quality or reliability of sources.
And of course, everything Google does with search lives in deep secrecy.
[+] [-] jfasi|4 years ago|reply
https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/6/24/22549157/google-unrelia...
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-reliable-sources-...
https://mashable.com/article/google-search-results-changing-...
[+] [-] sircastor|4 years ago|reply
Google has been making search results opinionated for years. At least as far back as discounting results that have a lot off link farm hits. I think the thing that is upsetting people is the idea that they don’t have control over the narrative like they once might have.
[+] [-] Barrin92|4 years ago|reply
there's intentionally misleading stuff in most articles and I honestly wonder who operates that site.
[+] [-] unknown|4 years ago|reply
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[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministries_of_Nineteen_Eight...
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[+] [-] rodgerd|4 years ago|reply
And of course, everything Google does with search lives in deep secrecy.
[+] [-] travisgriggs|4 years ago|reply
Will we see the dawn of a shadow industry of "reliable sourcing" providers?
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