Another headache for Google as YouTube now promotes Las Vegas conspiracy theories
BY GIANLUCA MEZZOFIORE From Mashable In the wake of the Las Vegas shooting, Google’s algorithm was under fire for purportedly promoting conspiracy theories that flourished on 4chan’s controversial /pol/ channel. But now Google has another headache from what is arguably…
Fake news sites are using Amazon to hire their writers
By Andrew Tarantola From engadget It appears that right wing websites that traffic in “alt-right” fake news are using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk system to recruit writers to produce content for them. The Mechanical Turk platform is an “odd-job board” where…
