Take the term “ net election tally , ” for object lesson . allot toCNN , theNew York Times , theWashington Post — infernal region , evenFox News — Hillary Clinton won the popular vote . But if you ask Google , one of the first results to drink down up is a WordPress website prognosticate 70news that behave the headline “ Final election 2016 numbers : Trump win both popular ( 62.9 MiB -62.2 m ) and electoral college ballot ( 306 - 232 ) … Hey change.org , scrap your whacky petition now ! ”
Reality is what people conjointly believe.pic.twitter.com/KJANDTkUzA
— Aza Raskin ( @aza)November 14 , 2016
The website , if the headline or the eldritch name did n’t make it clean-cut , is not a logical news source . One of itstabsis dedicate solely to Hillary Clinton ’s wellness , and the transcript of the “ storey ” is full of SEO plays and nonsense map . It also carry the following update at the top :
Update : Anyone asking where I got the figures , it was from twitter place . know the Democrat media have been drag their giving pes giving Michigan to Trump – finally they did , with Arizona finally declare two days ago – Trump now has the 309 . Except for the twitter posts , the popular suffrage bit still need to be updated in Wikipedia or MSM media – which may take another few days because the liberal are still reeling and recovering from trumpet - shock victory . If I ’m improper , I wo n’t hesitate to change the numbers . It ’s the problem of the establishment medium to severalise the mass the final numbers when it ’s out there already .
The result was first bring to our attention byTwitter substance abuser Aza Raskin , and when we tried to copy it ourselves this morning , we got the same hunting page . ( In incognito musical mode , our web browser app listed it as the second event . )
Yesterday , Mediaite founder Dan Abramsgot a similar resultwhen he searched for “ last Vote Count 2016 , ” and the resolution also seem to pop up using Google Assistant , too .
Ok then , Google.pic.twitter.com/am1r6T1I38
— Mark Bergen ( @mhbergen)November 14 , 2016
It ’s not inevitably Google ’s error that such a result happen its way to the top of the pile . SEO trick can be powerful hefty , and Google ’s seek to keep people from work them haslong been a game of whang - a - mole . In 2011 , the companylaunchedan update dub Panda to its algorithm that was designed to percolate out junky site ; in 2012 , it operate even further andreleasedanother update called Penguin that it described as a spam - becharm tool . This October , the company evenlauncheda “ fact - check ” feature article for news fib , though it appear to have failed miserably in this example .
Like Facebook , it is Google ’s responsibleness that its algorithms are ranking bullshit news stories over those from swear news sources . gazillion of multitude filter their news through Google ’s prism , and if that news show is unadulterated frill , that ’s on the company .
https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-fight-against-fake-news-was-undercut-by-fear-1788808204
We ’ve reached out to Google for comment , and we ’ll update if we find out back .
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