March 18, 2018

Google Busted Again Manipulating Search Results As 'Internet Bill Of Rights' Gains Traction

The most striking of these results came when we searched for the words girl says 3 shooters parkland, expecting the news footage of an eyewitness from the school saying that there were multiple shooters.



On Google this video did not come up, nor did any articles about the statement that the student made to the news, despite the fact that our search was extremely specific. Dont be fooled by the top article Calling B.S in Parkland, Florida, it is an op-ed promoting gun control.

After demonetizing thousands of channels (many of which were truther and conspiracy-related), YouTube is now taking further steps to fight undesirable videos. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced this week that the video platform will soon begin displaying links to fact-based sites alongside conspiracy videos. Called information cues, these snippets of information will link to reputable articles in order to combat hoaxes and fake news stories (gotta use lots of quotation marks to highlight mass medias biased vocabulary).



Heres how it will work: If you search and click on a conspiracy theory video about, say, chemtrails, YouTube will now link to a Wikipedia page that debunks the hoax alongside the video. A video calling into question whether humans have ever landed on the moon might be accompanied by the official Wikipedia page about the Apollo Moon landing in 1969. Wojcicki says the feature will only include conspiracy theories right now that have significant debate on the platform. Our goal is to start with a list of internet conspiracies listed on the internet where there is a lot of active discussion on YouTube, Wojcicki said at SXSW.



 Wired, YouTube Will Link Directly to Wikipedia to Fight Conspiracy Theories

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