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kahless
02-06-2018, 01:18 PM
Evidently the Democrats and "The Guardian" are pissed that they were unable to control the narrative of lies in favor of Hillary Clinton and state sponsored propaganda about current events. Now it is pay back time where they have launched a full frontal assault on Google Youtube and it's algorithm.


Senator Mark Warner, of Virginia, made the stark warning after an investigation by the Guardian found that the Google-owned video platform was systematically promoting divisive and conspiratorial videos that were damaging to Hillary Clinton’s campaign in the months leading up to the 2016 election.


“It appears as if the Guardian is attempting to shoehorn research, data and their conclusions into a common narrative about the role of technology in last year’s election,” a company spokesperson said. “The reality of how our systems work, however, simply doesn’t support this premise.”

Looks like Google is ready to cave.

On Friday, after it was informed the Guardian would imminently publish its investigation, YouTube provided an interview to the Wall Street Journal in which it laid out plans to label state-sponsored content and tackle the proliferation of conspiracy theories on the platform.

Fiction is outperforming reality': how YouTube's algorithm distorts truth
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/05/senator-warns-youtube-algorithm-may-be-open-to-manipulation-by-bad-actors

Senator warns YouTube algorithm may be open to manipulation by 'bad actors'
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/05/senator-warns-youtube-algorithm-may-be-open-to-manipulation-by-bad-actors

Zippyjuan
02-06-2018, 08:13 PM
The Guardian was a big backer of Edward Snowden- the only paper he was willing to talk to- they were the ones he gave his documents to.

kahless
02-06-2018, 08:48 PM
The Guardian was a big backer of Edward Snowden- the only paper he was willing to talk to- they were the ones he gave his documents to.

Snowden contacted Glenn Greenwald while working for them because of an article he wrote prior to working there for Salon. When the government came in and destroyed their hard drives, Assange criticized the newspaper for not publishing the entirety of the hard drives when they had the chance. (not saying they should or should not have been published rather the point being sounds like they were in it for themselves)

Long after he left the paper he wrote this.

The Guardian’s Summary of Julian Assange’s Interview Went Viral and Was Completely False
https://theintercept.com/2016/12/29/the-guardians-summary-of-julian-assanges-interview-went-viral-and-was-completely-false/

Part of why this happened has to do with The Guardian’s blinding hatred for WikiLeaks, with whom it partnered to its great benefit, only to then wage mutual warfare. While the paper regularly produces great journalism, its deeply emotional and personalized feud with Assange has often led it to abandon all standards when reporting on WikiLeaks.

But here, the problem was deeply exacerbated by the role of this particular reporter, Ben Jacobs. Having covered the 2016 campaign for The Guardian U.S., he’s one of those journalists who became beloved by Clinton’s media supporters for his obviously pro-Clinton coverage of the campaign. He entrenched himself as a popular member of the clique of political journalists who shared those sentiments. He built a following by feeding the internet highly partisan coverage; watched his social media follower count explode the more he did it; and generally bathed in the immediate gratification provided by online praise for churning out pro-Clinton agitprop all year.

But Jacobs has a particularly ugly history with WikiLeaks. In August 2015, news broke that Chelsea Manning — whose leaks became one of The Guardian’s most significant stories in its history and whom the U.N. had found was subjected to “cruel and inhumane” abuse while in detention — faced indefinite solitary confinement for having unapproved magazines in her cell as well as expired toothpaste. Jacobs went to Twitter and mocked her plight: “And the world’s tiniest violin plays a sad song.” He was forced to delete this demented tweet when even some of his Guardian colleagues publicly criticized him, though he never apologized publicly, claiming that he did so “privately” while blocking huge numbers of people who objected to his comments (including me).

Far left newspaper.



On the way The Guardian, a liberal newspaper, was initially sympathetic to Chavez
https://www.npr.org/2013/04/10/176706001/comandante-hugo-chavez-still-revered-despite-his-failings
... a lot of editors then and to this day feel and felt that we should have supported Hugo Chavez because he was a standard-bearer for the left.