Friday, February 02, 2018

DID GOOGLE SHOW BIAS TOWARDS BOMBER TRUMP IN 2016? AI PHD THINKS SO

Guillaume Chaslot, a 36-year-old French computer programmer with a PhD in artificial intelligence, worked for Google, and he has been analysing how Google shows bias.

He has concluded that Google was pro-Trump during the 2016 election.
He believes one of the most shocking examples was detected by his program in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. As he observed in a short, largely unnoticed blogpost published after Donald Trump was elected, the impact of YouTube’s recommendation algorithm was not neutral during the presidential race: it was pushing videos that were, in the main, helpful to Trump and damaging to Hillary Clinton. “It was strange,” he explains to me. “Wherever you started, whether it was from a Trump search or a Clinton search, the recommendation algorithm was much more likely to push you in a pro-Trump direction.”

[source : 'Fiction is outperforming reality': how YouTube's algorithm distorts truth, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/02/how-youtubes-algorithm-distorts-truth, 2nd February 2018]

And since Google implemented its censorship algorithm almost a year ago, here is what has happened to traffic from Google to TTS:


Down. Down. Down.

So down in fact that my Statcounter shows zero vists to TTS for the whole of January!

Coincidence?

I highlight Bomber Trump's deep connections to the extreme rightist Zionist deep state and get censored by Google while Google shows bias towards Trump?

Hmmmm...

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