Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

One of the world's top advertisers is threatening to take their ads offline if digital platforms do not do something about the fake news and extremism on their sites.

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Courtesy of CNN :   Unilever is threatening to pull its advertising from digital platforms that it says have become a "swamp" ...
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Monday, November 06, 2017

Instagram joins the growing list of social media platforms that the Russians used to manipulate the American people.

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Courtesy of Business Insider : It's been a couple months since Facebook confirmed that fake accounts likely originating in Russia bo...
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Monday, October 09, 2017

Google uncovers evidence that it was also used by the Russian to manipulate voters in the 2016 election.

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Courtesy of WaPo :   Google for the first time has uncovered evidence that Russian operatives exploited the company’s platforms in an at...
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Thursday, October 05, 2017

Driverless cars are almost here.

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Courtesy of Ars Technica : Real driverless cars could come to the Phoenix area this year, according to a Monday report from The Informat...
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Thursday, April 27, 2017

Google reveals new tools for avoiding fake news.

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Courtesy of the Guardian :   Google announced its first attempt to combat the circulation of “fake news” on its search engine with new t...
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Thursday, March 23, 2017

Google to revamp advertising policies after boycott over ads placed on controversial You Tube videos.

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Courtesy of The Guardian :   Google has promised a wide-ranging overhaul of its advertising policies in response to a growing boycott of...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Teachers take on the herculean task of teaching their students the difference between fake news and real journalism.

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Courtesy of AP :   Teachers from elementary school through college are telling students how to distinguish between factual and fiction...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Google removes Holocaust denying website from top search results.

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Courtesy of Digital Trends :   After facing considerable backlash over its most popular product, Search, Google has made some major ch...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Google is going to cut off revenue streams to sites that promote fake news.

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An example of a fake news item that showed up on Google. Courtesy of The Verge :   Today, Google announced that its advertising tools ...
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Monday, October 17, 2016

Just in time for the election Google introduces new fact checking feature. Looks like bad news for Breitbart and Alex Jones.

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Courtesy of World News Report :   Internet search giant Google has introduced a new fact-checking feature in its new section to allow re...
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Friday, June 24, 2016

You know sometimes you cannot be sure something is a bad thing until Sarah Palin likes it, and then you know.

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Courtesy of the international moron's Facebook page :   Time out between kids soccer games to tune in to good news of UK voting to...
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Saturday, February 06, 2016

I don't think that Ted Cruz's campaign staff are doing him any favors.

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Take a moment and Google "TRUS." Here I'll do it for you : A transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) is an ultrasound technique th...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

How much do Alaskans like Barack Obama? Enough to make him our top Google search that's how much.

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Source What did I tell ya? The man needs to move up here where he is loved and respected. Of course the fact that he needs to avoid ...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

I watched The Interview so that you don't have to. Assuming you are too un-American to sit through an hour and fifty two minutes of red, white, and blue awesomeness!

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(Warning, title might be a tad hyperbolic.) So I kind of accidentally found a Google video link online. (I am not sure it will work for ...
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Sunday, October 12, 2014

Want to know how to vote? There's an app for that.

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Courtesy of Time :   There’s a lot of room for confusion around how to vote this election season, particularly in states where pending ...
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Saturday, October 11, 2014

The New York Times take on the Palin family drunken brawl gets it right, CNN not so much.

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So before I went to bed last night I bookmarked this CNN video discussing the brawl which gets quite a few things wrong about what actual...
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Sunday, July 13, 2014

Okay this College Humor presentation of "What if Google was a guy" is WAY funnier than I anticipated.

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I surf the web a lot for my job, and I must click about three dozen videos or more a day and rarely watch any of them all the way through....
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Monday, June 30, 2014

Google to ban gun ads in September. Ammosexual heads to explode any minute now.

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Courtesy of Breitbart : According to Google Support's "Dangerous Products or Services" page, the company "[wants] to ...
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Monday, June 23, 2014

It's Monday so let's start it off with something sweet.

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A little girl was bothered that her daddy worked too hard, so she wrote a letter on his behalf to his employer, who happened to be Google. ...
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Sunday, May 25, 2014

What internet surfing says about your state.

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So the folks over at Estately Blog have laid out a sampling of internet searches from each state. Of course I only care about Alaska...
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