Flera här har noterat den begynnande massmediala spärrelden mot alla uppfattningar som avviker mot nyliberalism. Angreppet sker i första hand mot Trump och mot andra representanter för västvärldens arbetar- och medelklasser som är motsträviga i mångkulturella frågor. Men även klassiska vänsterideologer angrips, tänk Sanders och Corbyn, liksom sajter som The Intercept.
Den lömskaste attacken sker nu via Google: vi som googlar märker inte ens att vi blir lurade, eftersom sökresultaten friserats så att "fake news" inte skall nå läsarens näthinna. "Fake news" enligt Google är inte bara sådant som Breitbart, utan också The Intercept; det gemensamma för dessa båda sajter är att de är alternativ till MSM. (MSM kan i dag definieras som media som utan invändningar ger utrymme åt myndigheters och säkerhetstjänsters budskap i nyhetsdelen och som troget säljer nyliberalism i ekonomidelen och mångkulturalism i kulturdelen.)
Här från en alternativ vänsterorienterad sajt (många bra länkar också):
https://renegadeinc.com/truth-will-not-be-googled/
Den lömskaste attacken sker nu via Google: vi som googlar märker inte ens att vi blir lurade, eftersom sökresultaten friserats så att "fake news" inte skall nå läsarens näthinna. "Fake news" enligt Google är inte bara sådant som Breitbart, utan också The Intercept; det gemensamma för dessa båda sajter är att de är alternativ till MSM. (MSM kan i dag definieras som media som utan invändningar ger utrymme åt myndigheters och säkerhetstjänsters budskap i nyhetsdelen och som troget säljer nyliberalism i ekonomidelen och mångkulturalism i kulturdelen.)
Här från en alternativ vänsterorienterad sajt (många bra länkar också):
The truth will not be GoogledArtikeln ger också exempel på hur den dolda censuren ser ut på Facebook och Twitter.
Earlier this week, internet hosting provider, GoDaddy, announced it had cancelled US neo-Nazi website, Daily Stormer, for posting an attack on Heather Heyer, the protester who was murdered at the Klan rally in Charlottesville last week. Google and CloudFlare likewise cancelled its registration after the site tried to move its hosting over to their respective services.
But while these hosting services are being congratulated by some – and condemned by others on free-speech grounds – for ensuring that those looking to commit violence have to work slightly harder to get access to their like-minded Nazi communities, those who own the means of transmission – namely Google, Facebook and Twitter – are still preventing the rest of us from accessing information that allows people to make sense of the world around us.
Earlier this month, Google altered its algorithm – allegedly in an attempt to address the ‘fake news’ problem – and in doing so, a broad array of anti-establishment news organisations, whistleblower, civil-rights and anti-war websites were censored from its search listings. But most people were too distracted by the opinions of some low-level engineer on Google’s diversity hiring policies and its intolerance of conservative views in the workplace to take notice.
The data released by WSWS shows that since Google altered its algorithm, Wikileaks experienced a 30% decline in traffic from Google searches. Democracy Now fell by 36%. Truthout dropped by 25%. Its own traffic dropped by 67% percent over the same period. Alternet saw a 63% decline in traffic. Media Matters saw a 36% drop in traffic. Counterpunch.org fell by 21%. The Intercept fell by 19%.
In May, WSWS was ranked 5th in Google searches for the keyword ‘socialism’. Today the WSWS is nowhere to be found in the top 200 searches for the same keyword. In addition, Google blocked every one of WSW’s top 45 search terms.
Aaron Kaufman, director of development at progressive news outlet, Common Dreams said that Google Search as a percentage of total traffic to the Common Dreams website has decreased nearly 50 percent since May.
When human bias mistakes truth for bullshit
In a blog post published on April 25th, Google’s chief search engineer, Ben Gomez framed the issue as a change to the tech giant’s technical procedures in response to “the phenomenon of fake news”.
“The most high profile of these issues is the phenomenon of ‘fake news,’ where content on the web has contributed to the spread of blatantly misleading, low quality, offensive or downright false information,” Gomez wrote. “While this problem is different from issues in the past, our goal remains the same—to provide people with access to relevant information from the most reliable sources available. And while we may not always get it right, we’re making good progress in tackling the problem. But in order to have long-term and impactful changes, more structural changes in Search are needed.”
Gomez revealed that Google had recruited more than 10,000 “evaluators” hired to judge the quality of various websites, “real people who assess the quality of Google’s search results—give us feedback on our experiments,” though the chief search engineer did not identify the “evaluators” or explain the criteria against which websites are judged.
The ultimate irony: Google has seemingly allowed its evaluators to exercise their own biases when assessing the truth, accuracy and validity of these websites, and in doing so, are censoring essential information inconvenient to the narrative of the Washington establishment.
https://renegadeinc.com/truth-will-not-be-googled/