Meet the Censored: U.S. Right to Know

7 April 2021 — US Right to Know

“A nonprofit that investigates Genetically Modified Organisms and the origins of Covid-19 is the latest to see its traffic plunge after a search engine update,” writes Matt Taibbi in TK News.

Taibbi reports on the dramatic drop in web traffic U.S. Right to Know experienced after Google’s last core algorithm update in early December – for no reason we can find out, or that Google will tell us.

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When Google decides what news you read

24 February 2021 — USRTK

As tech giants wrestle over content moderation, “their decisions also run the risk of stifling routine reporting,” reports Parker Higgins for Freedom of the Press Foundation. “When content is removed or an algorithm tweaked behind closed doors, news organizations and journalists are often left without any sort of transparency into the process or a clear path to appeals.”

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THE MARCH OF THE FINANCIAL ALGORITHMS

13 October 2019 — theplanningmotivedotcom

MACHINES LEARN, BUT FIRST THEY HAVE TO BE TAUGHT TO LEARN

The world and our brains are analogue, computers are binary. Analogue is infinitely more complex than binary, which cannot be emulated by binary systems including the qubits found in so called quantum computers. Binary systems, because they do not spontaneously form imprints of the external world, need programming. This programming can only be undertaken in the first instance by humans with all their fallibilities.

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