Google’s Eric Schmidt Says Americans Too Dumb To Detect Fake News, Plans to “Derank”

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Eric Schmidt has made news with his latest announcement that Google is working on ways to “derank” Russian media in the search engine’s results.

At this weekend’s Halifax International Security Forum in Canada, Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google and current executive Chairman of Alphabet Inc., discussed Google’s efforts to deal with the apparent rise of fake news. Specifically, Schmidt was talking about how the search engine giant might limit the spread of “Russian Propaganda.” Mr. Schmidt said Google might “derank” fake news stories, going as far as mentioning Russian news stations Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik.

“We are working on detecting and deranking those kinds of sites – it’s basically RT and Sputnik,” Schmidt said. “We are well of aware of it, and we are trying to engineer the systems to prevent that [the content being delivered to wide audiences]. But we don’t want to ban the sites – that’s not how we operate.”
https://www.activistpost.com/2017/1...t-fake-news-plans-to-derank-russian-news.html

Alphabet's Eric Schmidt: It can be 'very difficult' for Google’s search algorithm to understand truth
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/21/alp...hy-google-can-have-trouble-ranking-truth.html

Well, are Americans too dumb to spot fake news, or is the problem google is too dumb to spot the truth?
 
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Right on, Eric!. The American public is one of the "dumbest" on the planet, these days.
 
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Curious Cdn said:
Right on, Eric!. The American public is one of the "dumbest" on the planet, these days.
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It's staggering. I knew some folks weren't particularly bright but the last few years have really opened my eyes. It's not just a right or left thing either. The Cliffy's and the Flossy's of the world are no better or worse than the Wally's or Eaglesmacks. It's also not just an American issue (although Americans are definitely worse) as Das and JLM are every bit as stupid as ES.

I think we need to start teaching our kids how to think critically in schools. The Jordan Peterson debacle is a prime example of what happens when people don't
 
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Cannuck said:
It's staggering. I knew some folks weren't particularly bright but the last few years have really opened my eyes. It's not just a right or left thing either. The Cliffy's and the Flossy's of the world are no better or worse than the Wally's or Eaglesmacks. It's also not just an American issue (although Americans are definitely worse) as Das and JLM are every bit as stupid as ES.

I think we need to start teaching our kids how to think critically in schools. The Jordan Peterson debacle is a prime example of what happens when people don't
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Teaching critical thinking to kids has already been tried and found to complicate things like cash flow and adherance to suffocating regulation and would hurt the war effort Oceana.
 
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Its only going to to get worse as we regulate everything and take care of everyone. Who needs to be intelligent when there are no consequences to you’re actions?

Hard to learn from you’re mistakes if you don’t even know it was a mistake
 
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