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I do imagine further into the future, the automated systems will be "improved" with tone and bias to better fit the tastes of the individual reader, to the detriment of us writ large.
This submission is at least tangentially relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14673489 . Combining these presents an interesting opportunity to create "future news" (news that is technically fake until it isn't) thereby owning the news cycle by always being first.
About 15 years ago I had the good luck of covering a news story before it happened and got a truly tremendous amount of traffic as a result.
Google will one day be the arbitrators of news. If it doesn't fit in their world view, whether it's true or not. Will be removed from the results.
I think now is the time to setup a different model and remove their monopoly. Internet freedoms are at stake here.
Do no evil? Yeah right.
This is what it will become one day. Hope they have something to stop it.
Very Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Ut5GqQ1f4 Google will one day be the arbitrators of news. If it doesn't fit in their world view, whether it's true or not. Will be removed from the results. I think now is the time to setup a different model and remove their monopoly. Internet freedoms are at stake here. Do no evil? Yeah right.
Very Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Ut5GqQ1f4 Google will one day be the arbitrators of news. If it doesn't fit in their world view, whether it's true or not. Will be removed from the results. I think now is the time to setup a different model and remove their monopoly. Internet freedoms are at stake here. Do no evil? Yeah right.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
About 15 years ago I had the good luck of covering a news story before it happened and got a truly tremendous amount of traffic as a result.
Can you tell us more about it?
There was a series of anti-war protests at a mall around Albany NY in the run up to the second gulf war.
I had been covering the story on a regular basis, but it had gotten very little attention because the media had decided that anti-war protests were not newsworthy.
Well, finally at one of these protests they arrest a judge and that is newsworthy. People start looking for names and places and these match the story I'd written at the last protest (where there had not been any arrests.)