Been scantly reported that Google Twitter & Facebook manipulate their timeline & search algorithms that tend to support establishment/neoliberal views and supress or outright “shadow ban” anti-establishment and conservative views (outisde of supposed breaches of the terms & agreement). Project Veritas and other publications have profiled this for Twitter, whereas others have claimed see it for themselves on Google (Tulsi, for example) and Youtube. Other publications (Wikileaks) have also alluded to the relationships the execs have with Dem insiders and prominent leaders along with their political contributions (Zuck Schmidt & Paige with the DNC, etc). Obv from 2016, the MSM has lost control of the narrative by the decentralization of info as a result of these platforms, which has revolutionalized political elections. Sentiment online has become just as accurate of a way to gauge the public (arguably more) than polling. Its not surprising that they are trying to take steps to eliminate or influence the information on these platforms to their favor. From Blind I’ve noticed barely anyone from these companies says anything in regard to this topic. It would be naive to think company culture, groupthink, and top down pressure can not play a factor in user experience, and could influence the willingness of employees to speak on it if it exists. So my question is (TLDR), can anyone from these companies attest or refute that their algorithms and UX has been influenced by political bias, culture, or top down pressure? Other ppl on blind, do you think that the algorithms by F,G, & Twitter have been influenced by political bias, culture, or top down pressure?
Do you realize that the word "conservative" is the opposite of "anti-establishment" because you can't conserve and at the same time be against what's established.
Outside of politics you have a point, but the terminology and intended usage of the words within the context of politics and political parties makes your point moot in this instance. For example, you can be a conservative in politics (ala Mitch McConnell) and be establishment. You can also be conservative ( ala Steve Bannon) and be anti establishment. Semantics thing, context dependent
What exactly do these stooges conserve?
In reality, social media companies are running scared of the current establishment and therefore let racist and hateful content on their channel. This is the ultimate political correctness that the rightwingers continuously whine about
You’re living in an alternative fantasy universe. Pull yourself back from the brink if you can
I would caution blind users to not respond to the bait thrown by this troll. Based on the loaded question, it is entirely possible that this guy is actually from one of the hate sites like Breitbart , trying to fish for content that he wants to later spin as bias in tech. Also note the heavy use of terminology used on this hate sites to couch their racist agenda as a mainstream thought.
They don't need this shit. They totally capable of generating this content without the involvement from actual tech people.
Lmaoooo, chill
Tfw neoliberal is posted as the opposite of conservative What exactly do you think Bush and Cheney were? What a dumb troll
Neolibs and conservatives do have some ideological overlaps, but Bush and Cheney were def neoconservatives.. you think they were neoliberals? And you’re calling me a dumb troll 😂 irony be damned
I don’t have an applicable response but I appreciate this post and the people who meet it with equal footing. The people calling troll are low bandwidth. We should all be able to admit the media has a left bias even if we find ourselves in agreement with the rhetoric. This is a great discussion. ✊
It’s good to be skeptical of mainstream information sources... but it goes for other sources as well. project veritas etc don’t hold up to the lightest scrutiny. You’re falling for confirmation-bias.
Project veritas I can get the skepticism. I’ve swifted through their content to pull what is valuable and what is contrived, same as with any other source. The twitter, cnn, and now recently the Epstein footage is their most reflective work. Thus why I used them as a source for this subject
OP does have a great point, the employees a Google Facebook et al are some of the most reprehensible sheep in tech. They’re responsible for increasing planetary scale surveillance system that’s obviously going to be used and is used to oppressed people. And all you get is silence just so you can make 300 K? That’s pathetic
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-google-interferes-with-its-search-algorithms-and-changes-your-results-11573823753 Just like clockwork, story just came out today. Well now it’s been documented by google. Anyone trying to dispute this?
Yeah it’s become blatant over the last year. DuckDuckGo forever googles dead
I def have my own opinion on the matter, and it’s probably obv from my line of reasoning on the OP as to what that is. I’m just so curious on how their employees think internally on these issues, but it seems like there’s a groupthink culture in these places. Nobody is trying to get James Damore’d
I highly doubt most of this is intentional. It's probably just the product of mass reporting and the squeaky wheel getting oil.
You must be kidding. There’s been a handful of google engineer whistleblowers that have come forward with a treasure trove of internal documents Showing how the systematic bias is applied across product suites and algorithms. Lots of people have seen the hardcoded black lists and weights. Is it possible you’re not aware of this?
Come on Google, answer the question
Facebook is scared shitless of right-wing claims of bias. If anything they’ve actually started to have a right-wing bias as a result.
Yeah I saw recently that Zuck met with some prominent Conservative pundits, and recently has refused to ban political ads. I agree with not trying to regulate ads for truth just bc some ads contain info outside of the Overton window that opposing parties claim as false especially if it implicates corruption on their part. Other times yes it can be fake but it’s up to user discretion to educate themselves properly. Political Ads supposedly only make up .5% of add revenue for FB. But what about google? Do you think algorithms are subject to political bias in your company? Obv company is big and you may not work in the actual dept or team, just curious to hear an insiders perspective.
Of course Facebook has an establishment bias, they’ve been compromised by the CA like all the others. You don’t think they’ve got a ton of compromising material on Zuck? Do you think think you could compromise a little shit like that in two seconds?