Sounds familiar. While following Google's aggregated news content, I began to grow suspicious of the how's and why's with regards to the specific content I was receiving. In addition, the tone of the headlines themselves along with the ratio of liberal to conservative media sources I was being fed all seemed geared toward my own personal take on things (as opposed to remaining neutral).
After watching the film / pseudo-documentary "The Social Dilemma", I came to realize that the impact of things like my actions on social media as well as my geographical location not only impacted the news that I was fed, but also the search results I was fed (when trying to research news stories on my own for example). As a result, I ended up deleting my social media accounts, began using Firefox once again instead of Google Chrome, and stopped using Google search — I switched to Qwant though I'm sure there are many other alternatives.
Sounds familiar. While following Google's aggregated news content, I began to grow suspicious of the how's and why's with regards to the specific content I was receiving. In addition, the tone of the headlines themselves along with the ratio of liberal to conservative media sources I was being fed all seemed geared toward my own personal take on things (as opposed to remaining neutral).
ReplyDeleteAfter watching the film / pseudo-documentary "The Social Dilemma", I came to realize that the impact of things like my actions on social media as well as my geographical location not only impacted the news that I was fed, but also the search results I was fed (when trying to research news stories on my own for example). As a result, I ended up deleting my social media accounts, began using Firefox once again instead of Google Chrome, and stopped using Google search — I switched to Qwant though I'm sure there are many other alternatives.
Perhaps the Megatrends people needed to pay attention to William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. They got it.
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