Multiple news reports state that the Department of Justice is planning an antitrust investigation into the world’s most popular search engine: Google. Google has been under scrutiny for allegedly skewing its results, often to favor liberal interests and to the detriment of conservative interests. Google has denied those claims. Google is a subsidiary of the […]
Fact Check: Slate.com Vaccines-Autism Claims
A recent Slate.com article took on Google’s decision to develop new search engine algorithms to filter out what it views as “inaccurate” websites. The authors are David Weinberger, a senior researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Center, and Dan Gillmor of Arizona State University and author of Mediactive. The authors chose to begin their article using the example of the vaccine-autism controversy. […]
