{"id":6850,"date":"2017-04-26T14:03:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6850"},"modified":"2017-04-26T14:06:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:06:13","slug":"linked-not-ok-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/04\/26\/linked-not-ok-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Not Ok, Google&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3084,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/stratechery.com\\\/2017\\\/not-ok-google&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20241110222339\\\/https:\\\/\\\/stratechery.com\\\/2017\\\/not-ok-google\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 02:45:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-11 09:43:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-07 23:43:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 20:56:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 19:35:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 06:53:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 12:09:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 08:26:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 08:26:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3085,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/mobile.nytimes.com\\\/2017\\\/01\\\/18\\\/upshot\\\/researchers-created-fake-news-heres-what-they-found.html?smid=tw-upshotnyt&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;_r=0&amp;referer=&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/2017\\\/01\\\/18\\\/upshot\\\/researchers-created-fake-news-heres-what-they-found.html?smid=tw-upshotnyt&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3086,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/stratechery.com\\\/2016\\\/fake-news&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250304204439\\\/https:\\\/\\\/stratechery.com\\\/2016\\\/fake-news\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 02:45:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-12 03:32:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-11 09:43:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-07 23:43:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-12 00:17:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 19:35:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 06:53:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 12:09:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 08:26:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 08:26:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stratechery.com\/2017\/not-ok-google\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Stratechery<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #1c1c1c;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\"><em>Fake news, on the other hand, tells people who\u2019ve already made up their minds <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/18\/upshot\/researchers-created-fake-news-heres-what-they-found.html?smid=tw-upshotnyt&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;_r=0&amp;referer=\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-kerning: none; color: #faa634;\"><strong>what they want to hear<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Certainly it\u2019s not ideal, but the tradeoffs in dealing with the problem, at least in terms of Facebook, are very problematic. I wrote last fall in <a href=\"https:\/\/stratechery.com\/2016\/fake-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-kerning: none; color: #faa634;\"><strong>Fake News<\/strong><\/span><\/a>:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m of the opinion that fake-news doesn\u2019t affect me because I don\u2019t use social media. I use RSS and subscribe to more traditional blogs authored by people who are tech-savvy enough to know the source they\u2019re linking to is reputable. Ben does an excellent job of breaking this down but I don\u2019t think Facebook or Google need to do anything. Let the Facebook people who interact with other idiots and like idiot pages and do idiot things see articles written that affirm their beliefs that Obama is going to kill their grandmother with the Affordable Care Act (an old \u2018fake news\u2019 topic from 8 years ago but that\u2019s really my only point of reference since again, I\u2019m not on social media).<\/p>\n<p>..and, let people searching Google for \u201cObamacare death trials\u201d find articles from fly-by-night wordpress installs from anonymous authors who have a sole purpose to get you to open their page so they can make google Adsense money from your page-views. If you\u2019re stupid enough to read that as a reliable source, you deserve what you get.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I think the tech sector is dominated by liberal millennials. This is a problem because the Internet is no longer a fad and it no longer has political borders. An espresso sipping messenger bag wearing SF d-bag is writing apps used by people who think Obama was literally a nazi. Is it up to that app developer to build in political safeguards against idiots? No and it\u2019s not up to Facebook or Google to do that either. Let the algorithm do what it was designed to do.<\/p>\n<p>The only issue with all of this is when someone\u2019s assumptions are confirmed via a Google Search, they have just as many voting rights as I do and that bothers me but social media is a reflection of our world. Before \u2018fake news\u2019, there was the local watering hole. Jimbo would say to billy-joe, \u201cHey man, did you hear Obama\u2019s gonna kill your grandpa as soon as he tries to use obamacare?\u201d I grew up with these guys and I\u2019d be the one on my phone google searching for proof and having to awkwardly say \u201cno, Snopes says that\u2019s not true\u201d and they\u2019d say \u201coh okay, never mind then\u201d Those guys have Facebook as their watering hole now and believe everything they read.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think liberal millennials should step in to discredit fake news because unfortunately, these large companies have political bias. They tend to be liberal. At some point, they overstep and make the mistake from just filtering out fake news to actually steering people toward reality and they\u2019ll start being blamed for forcing the \u201cliberal agenda\u201d down people\u2019s throats and you\u2019ll get what we saw in 2016 with the presidential election. I mentioned it before. People in Florida, my family intentionally didn\u2019t vote for Mrs. Clinton because she was a woman. Because, everyone said they had to because she\u2019d break a glass-ceiling. They voted for Trump because they were tired of being told it was the right thing to do. I think if you show a lot of gun-toting NRA members news articles about all of the things the NRA does that\u2019s wrong, they\u2019re going to stop using Facebook or Google. You\u2019re going to push them off the service. They use social media because their beliefs are affirmed and they interact with like-minded people. The algorithm is doing its job. Changing it might lead to a mass exodus of the people you\u2019re trying to protect and it starts with fake-news. You may think that showing very right-wing die-hard-christians articles about transgender acceptance, women\u2019s rights, scientific thought, PBS funding and women\u2019s right to choose will sway them to the other side. It only forces most of them to stand their ground even stronger than do things because of social change is happening too fast for them. It\u2019s not about voting for the right candidate anymore or eating at Chik-Fil-A because their food is good. There are members of my family patronizing Chik-Fil-A and not Starbucks because of gay-rights, in spite of the quality of the food. Those people need the algorithm. Changing it too much will alienate them and they\u2019ll invent a new service and based on the election results, half of America would quit Facebook if things were changed too much. something to think about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Stratechery: Fake news, on the other hand, tells people who\u2019ve already made up their minds what they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-04-26T14:03:17Z","apple_news_api_id":"5c660d34-8b75-4199-8904-84607f398062","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-04-26T14:06:17Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AXGYNNIt1QZmJBIRgfzmAYg","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1Mu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7212,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/11\/24\/linked-fake-news-is-here-to-stay\/","url_meta":{"origin":6850,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Fake news is here to stay\u2026&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"November 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Om.co: (if you haven\u2019t yet, please subscribe to Om\u2019s Link blog. 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