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YouTube’s algorithm is hurting America far more than Russian trolls ever could

sudshr47 February 22, 2018

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Remember when we used to think the greatest threat we faced from Artificial Intelligence was that it would become Skynet and launch our entire nuclear arsenal, wiping out the human race? 

Good times. 

But on the evidence of YouTube’s latest mess, AI doesn’t even need to bother blowing us up — it can just dumb us down and push endless conspiracy theory videos on us. That way we’ll get so confused about the truth, we won’t take any action to stop killing ourselves.

What YouTube mess do I mean, exactly? Oh, just the fact that the Google-owned video company has pushed videos about the Parkland shooting survivors — specifically, a clip created to support the outrageous lie that one student is a “crisis actor” because he showed up in a news segment in California some months back — to the very top of its influential Trending section.  Read more…

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George and Amal Clooney just made a huge donation to Florida school shooting survivors

sudshr47 February 20, 2018

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In less than a week, Parkland, Florida, has transformed into the grounds for a new movement  helmed by teenagers who have made it their mission to shift the conversation around gun control and put an end to mass shootings.

These students, survivors of a school shooting that claimed 17 victims from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, have been organizing on social media and in real life. A rally, March for Our Lives, will take place on March 24— and it just got a major donation boost from George and Amal Clooney. 

“Amal and I are so inspired by the courage and eloquence of these young men and women from Stoneman Douglas High School,” reads the note, tweeted by Stoneman Douglas student and survivor Sarah Chadwick.  Read more…

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