Key point: It is important to put any research into context in order to better understand it. The Wall Street Journal recently reported a shocking revelation: Senior Google employees exert “editorial control over what (its search engine) shows users.” Another journalist and member of the managing board of the Stigler Center at the University of […]
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) touched off controversy by suggesting the Detroit Police Department should let only African Americans analyze facial recognition results. (Alex Edelman/Bloomberg) When Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) was invited to tour the Detroit Police Department’s Real Time Crime Center, the purpose was to explain how officers use facial recognition when policing the streets
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Read: What Amazon thinks you’re worth Amazon admits it takes profitability into account when displaying products, but it denies reworking its search tool to privilege its own products over the competition. In an emailed statement to The Atlantic, an Amazon spokesperson wrote, “The fact is that we have not changed the criteria we use to
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Can we finally admit that trying to control Liberty doesn’t work and that societal violence isn’t caused by the ‘easy access to guns’? Over the weekend, we had two mass murder shootings in bastions of Liberty Control – and all the legislation, regulation and gun confiscation SWATing failed to work as advertised. The aphorism that
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Is Google in some way biased against conservative sites – especially in news? Some people believe this This controversy has been growing over the last couple of years or so. This claim of bias started with the president but has even made it all the way to Congress. Today, Google will appear before Congress (again)
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The most famous dictum of the science fiction writer and futurist Arthur C. Clarke may be his Third Law: “Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.” And for most of us, the efficiency of 21st-century search engines — Google, Bing, Yahoo and others — can be uncannily accurate. But when it comes to learning,
New research by Digital Examiner shows that 52% of users believe Google search is biased. In a survey measuring consumer confidence in Google, 1000 people were asked if they thought Google’s search results were biased in any way. The fact that 52% of users think Google search is biased might sound surprising, but when you
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