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Google's Threat to Democracy Hits AlterNet Hard
Posted on: October 2, 2017 at 22:09:58 CT
JeffB MU
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Google is targeting liberal sites as "fake news" sites?
https://donate.alternet.org/FA17-SPLASH-MAJORAPPEAL
From my point of view Google is a very liberal organization. Unless their algorithms got accidentally screwed up, I'm guessing they deserve to be categorized as fake news.
In late June, Google introduced a new algorithm aimed to fight fake news.
It sounded like a good idea—until it became clear that Google was targeting progressive news sites fighting racism and fake news. Many progressive sites were hit, but none more than AlterNet, which lost 2.4 million readers this summer, compared with the past two-and-a-half years. That's a lot of lost impact.
Google is a monopoly on steroids. They don't understand how journalism works. And it will hit our ad budget hard, potentially $100k or more, which we rely on to bring you 200 great articles a week for free.
Please help us out with a contribution, so we can continue to lead the fight against Donald Trump and rabid conservatism.
https://donate.alternet.org/FA17-SPLASH-MAJORAPPEAL
From my point of view Google is a very liberal organization. Unless their algorithms got accidentally screwed up, I'm guessing they deserve to be categorized as fake news.
In late June, Google introduced a new algorithm aimed to fight fake news.
It sounded like a good idea—until it became clear that Google was targeting progressive news sites fighting racism and fake news. Many progressive sites were hit, but none more than AlterNet, which lost 2.4 million readers this summer, compared with the past two-and-a-half years. That's a lot of lost impact.
Google is a monopoly on steroids. They don't understand how journalism works. And it will hit our ad budget hard, potentially $100k or more, which we rely on to bring you 200 great articles a week for free.
Please help us out with a contribution, so we can continue to lead the fight against Donald Trump and rabid conservatism.
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Google's Threat to Democracy Hits AlterNet Hard - JeffB MU - 10/2 22:09:58