Thank you Google, who always has the bourgeoisie’s people’s best interests in mind
When catalyzed by algorithms, misleading claims can discourage people from getting vaccines, spread authoritarian propaganda, foment distrust in democratic institutions and spur violence.
The “authoritarian propaganda” in question: any Russian news org. And the “democratic institution” mentioned: the US government. 😮💨
“authoritarian propaganda” in a few years or decades, depending on the state of class struggle, will just be “anything that doesn’t let billionaires sell children and lobby for nuclear warfare”
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Click on the link in the article and you’ll see that they’re talking about RT and Sputnik along with anything that vaguely supports Russia. Course, when the US bans dissenting media, it’s anti-authoritarian somehow.
One of the goals is to “prevent loss of faith in [Western] democratic institutions.”
Like installing more bilge pumps when the ship’s already underwater.
Faith is a good word choice, isn’t it. Who needs material analysis? Just have faith. Just believe
They ( Google ) are total Hypocrites . !
You know, I had no problem with fact checking and fighting misinformation until it became clear to me that most of the checks are done with an ulterior motive in mind.
“Fighting misinformation” overwhelmingly results in the removal/silencing of left-wing/anti-imperialist media
Using ads as a vehicle to counter a disinformation technique is pretty novel.
That sounds horrifying.
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It really is funny, isn’t it? Westerns have a religious hatred of anything government-related but a seemingly limitless tolerance for corporate misconduct.
Like, if a state-owned enterprise does something bad, you’ll hear people calling for regime change. But if a private business does something similar or worse, people just shrug their shoulders and treat it as unfair, but unavoidable. As if it were a natural disaster.
The title looks dystopian but the idea seems sensible.
Assessing the quality of sources was a pretty important section covered multiple times during my schooling. But not everyone was schooled like me, and others simply didn’t practice their source-checking skills after school.
I would need to see the ‘pre-bunking’ videos to form an opinion on them, but from reading the article I get that the aim is to create high-quality videos about how to assess sources, and help distribute these videos to the masses. It is a very important skill and many people lack it, so if that is what they will do it is a great idea.
