TommyCarey
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Google is fighting fake news due to the recent elections and all the pop up websites posting misleading content. Google is fighting these fake news websites because they could have actually altered the presidential elections recently and put Trump in office when he wasn't suppose to be. Sure, he had the electoral votes and all, but would he have had won if it weren't for these fake news websites posting whatever they wanted just to gain traffic?
We all know that controversial content will draw a big crowd, and posting about the election will definitely pull people in since they're passionate about it. These fake news websites always get more active around election time because it only comes around once every four years and if they're not capitalizing on the search results then they just aren't doing their jobs. The controversial content doesn't even matter as long as you can get a good discussion going on the pages. A lot of these fake news websites get indexed pretty quickly and it makes sense that they would pop up quick and stay on top due to all the shares and linking people are naturally doing to these posts.
Google is now removing, or pushing down, low quality content with the help of the users. You can jump into a Google search and report inappropriate or inaccurate suggestions by clicking "Report Inappropriate Suggestions" just under the suggested search box when typing in the address bar of Google. This will help weed out the searches that don't make sense or are just rubbish in the eyes of the people. Now I'm sure this will get abused when it comes to reporting competition, but I'm also sure that if Google rolled out this update they have tested it thoroughly (hopefully).
A quote from Ben Gomes, VP of Engineering at Google
We combine hundreds of signals to determine which results we show for a given query—from the freshness of the content, to the number of times your search queries appear on the page. We’ve adjusted our signals to help surface more authoritative pages and demote low-quality content, so that issues similar to the Holocaust denial results that we saw back in December are less likely to appear.
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clerkboy3
There are very controversial opinions regarding this.
Many people are turning to the alternative media sites because they have had enough of the mainstream media!!!
They are frequently biased and also fake news (very often more than the alternative sites?).
If the goal is simply to silence the voices outside the mainstream media, than this is a very bad move...
The expression "low authority websites aka fake news websites" can be quite unfair. Just because a website is new, doesn't mean it is a fake news website; it is however, much more likely to be, but not necessarily so!... I strongly hope that this doesn't affect freedom of expression!... There are very controversial opinions regarding this. Many people are turning to the alternative media sites because they have had enough of the mainstream media!!! They are frequently biased and also fake news (very often more than the alternative sites?). If the goal is simply to silence the voices outside the mainstream media, than this is a very bad move... The expression "low authority websites aka fake news websites" can be quite unfair. Just because a website is new, doesn't mean it is a fake news website; it is however, much more likely to be, but not necessarily so!...
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