Eric Schmidt has made news with his latest announcement that Google is working on ways to “derank” Russian media in the search engine’s results.
At this weekend’s Halifax International Security Forum in Canada, Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google and current executive Chairman of Alphabet Inc., discussed Google’s efforts to deal with the apparent rise of fake news. Specifically, Schmidt was talking about how the search engine giant might limit the spread of “Russian Propaganda.” Mr. Schmidt said Google might “derank” fake news stories, going as far as mentioning Russian news stations Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik.
“We are working on detecting and deranking those kinds of sites – it’s basically RT and Sputnik,” Schmidt said. “We are well of aware of it, and we are trying to engineer the systems to prevent that [the content being delivered to wide audiences]. But we don’t want to ban the sites – that’s not how we operate.”
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6 comments:
Should state "Liberal minded people are too dumb" Everyone else besides libbies can tell fake news when they come across it!!!Ray!!!
Perfect example of an elitist.
How long before HE decides FoxNews should be censored as well?
And yet the enquirer was sold out again at Wally world
Well hell, are they gonna derank our own fake news sites? Or are the masses smart enough to tell they are fake?
Thanks for pointing me to Sputnik. I didn't even know it existed. So, of course, I had to find it and start following it.
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