Google helping fight "fake news"

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lawgator1 said:
I read the earlier comments to be that if Snopes or a few other sites had determines something false then they would filter it. Not that they were taking news from those sites, only.
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I got a totally different read from the article.

It's the equal of me using VolProf or Joevol320 as my news sources.
 
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From failed liberal blogger to the guardian of all that is right and true on the internet...

Well played, Kim Lacapria. Well played.
 
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luthervol said:
It just doesn't make sense to say that all politicians lie equally. Trump is in a league of his own and he has worked diligently for that accomplishment.
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I really don't think that he is.

Obama, for example, lied very eloquently and professionally and always gave himself an out with how he constructed his statements. PolitiFact, which conservatives are now trying to whitewash as a liberally-biased site, said that Obama's oft-repeated "if you like your plan you can keep it" claim was the "Lie of the Year" in 2013.

IMO, Obama was able to get away with a statement like that (relatively speaking) because there isn't anything written in black and white in the law that removes access to a specific plan or doctor. However, when he was making that statement, Obama knew that the law would institute certain minimum coverage standards and he knew that millions had those plans, so he knew that some people would not be able to keep that plan. If they couldn't keep the plan, then they potentially couldn't keep the same doctor. Obama knew that full well, but it didn't keep him from saying that every day.

In contrast, Donald just goes on Twitter and says "Obama put a phone tapp on me" without any evidence.
He just does it more brazenly than other politicians, and of course the media is more eager to cover his lies than they are with Obama.
 
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Grand Vol said:
For a regular website, perhaps.

As a news source? There's something basically wrong with the premise of people using Snopes as "news."
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When the newspaper was the primary news source the adage was, "don't believe everything you read". We would do well to go back to that.

Or, do what I do, believe all the bad stuff about a politician and discount the good stuff.
 
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Grand Vol said:
I got a totally different read from the article.

It's the equal of me using VolProf or Joevol320 as my news sources.
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How in the world did you come to that conclusion? It's saying that Google just includes a tag that identifies each link's credibility level. It gave a few sites that are generally trusted, but it certainly did not say they are the absolute authority.
 
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Grand Vol said:
I got a totally different read from the article.

It's the equal of me using VolProf or Joevol320 as my news sources.
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I'm not a millennial. I don't get my news from Facebook or Google. I didn't even know Facebook had news until someone here whined about it.
 
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Google already builds and maintains a profile for you, which includes "curating" search results. Look up a topic on your home PC and then look it up on another device like at a library or work. It will return different results for the same search.
 
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ClearwaterVol said:
You cannot be this blind. Trump is in a new class when it comes to to bull$hit. I am not going to say it is out and out lies all the time, but it is a steady stream of bull$hit like I have never seen.
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If you like your plan you can keep your plan.
 
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lawgator1 said:
I'm not a millennial.
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We know...

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Polifact is the fakest of news. Constantly rating the same statements by republicans as less true than when made by democrats.
 
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