Stephen E. Arnold: #GoogleGestapo Twitter’s Fake News Problem

Twitter: Designed for Interesting Messaging Fake news is getting harder to control and social media networks makes it harder to weed out the truth from the lies. Engadget shares how, “Twitter’s Fake News Problem Is Getting Worse” and how tragedy exacerbates the problem. For example, when a crazed shooter opened fired at a high school …

Stephen E. Arnold: #GoogleGestapo Facebook Foundering – And Stalking…

Facebook Floundering Again? It is no shock to say that Facebook has had some rough months lately. Amidst controversy over their handling of fake news and algorithms that seem to avoid friends, the company’s biggest problems are actually internal. The social media giant’s culture is beginning to gain a lot of attention, and not for …

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Math & Algorithms Not Trustworthy?

Google and Search Trust: Math Is Objective, Right? Trust, however, seems to mean different things to different people. Consider the write up “It’s Time to Stop Trusting Google Search Already.” The write up suggests that people usually trust Google. The main point is that those people should not trust Google.

Stephen E. Arnold: Translations in the Cloud are Not Private — #GoogleGestapo Leverages Everything…

Privacy Is Lost in Translation Online translation tools are a wonder!  Instead of having to rely on limited dictionaries and grammars, online translation tools deliver real-time, nearly accurate translations of documents and other text.  It is usually good to double check the translation because sometimes the tools do make mistakes.  Translation tools, however, can make …