Originally Posted by Pugchief (Post 2261055)

The amount of control these tech companies have over framing your viewpoint is criminal.

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Originally Posted by Pugchief (Post 2261348)

Ah good catch/translation. The spelling and grammar on this board are atrocious.

Originally Posted by Blackbird45 (Post 2261388)

Companies do what is financially in their best interest.
As far as conspiracy theories, there are facts and falsehoods.
People will believe what they have predetermine to be the truth.
If something does not conform to what they already believe it is a conspiracy.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2261481)

I was going along with that post (to be fair) up until the last sentence about CNN NOT being credible. Sorry amigo, but CNN is more credible than Foxie Loxie or all the Russian-initiated so-called NEWS? on those STRANGE far-right channels or wherever they are located.

Originally Posted by roadrnnr (Post 2261495)

And Herein lies the problem when half the population believes Main Stream media is credible and Fall for all the Propaganda.

Originally Posted by JRcorvette (Post 2261466)

Google is the worst offender but other search engines like Yahoo do the same. You could switch to a different browser such as Brave or Mozilla and also use Duck Duck Go.

I believe that Google needs to be broken up like they did to AT&T years ago. :Screen_of_Death:

Originally Posted by Bridget Eichaker (Post 2261468)

CNN total garbage, waste of my time

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2261460)

I personally, LOVE to relax my mind by thinking about grasshoppers - Ah, grasshoppers flying in a golden field of milo in Nebraska, as I concentrate my focus on my dogs working to kick up those "waskelly" pheasants.
..........PS.....Don't you mean A.I. standing for artificial intelligence? Not IA standing for........????? idiots in an audience ???????

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC (Post 2261503)

Very true, objectivity by the media is long gone. Reporters think we really want their point of view. Opinions belong on editorial page nowhere else.

Originally Posted by Susan1717 (Post 2261389)

Try typing in Newsmax first to get any of their articles. They are all I watch now and I feel tell more of a whole story instead of leaving out impirtants facts.

Originally Posted by Bay Kid (Post 2261462)

Getting tired of the same old ads. Google Victoria's Secrets and for the next several days google will show ladies lingerie.

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive (Post 2261479)

Frustrating? Yes. But criminal? Hardly. There really hasn't been a time in our history when information presented to Joe Public, at least to a certain extent, HASN'T been sifted or cherry-picked by media to present a certain face. Search "yellow journalism" for just one example of such activity going back to the late 19th century. But that is just one example among many others, and the yellow journalists of that time faced plenty of opposition from news sources printing opposing views.

The issue here however is not so much that a Google search is apt to yield results heavily skewed in a certain direction (that has been known for quite some time) but that a monopoly on disseminated information means that it has become progressively harder and harder to find information on the internet that might contradict the stuff most readily available in a Google search. This seems to be the case most often when it relates to "social" issues. Try searching Google for any information that contradicts the accepted line du jour on just about any social issue and this will become obvious. The problem is that, when you're the only game in town, you can pretty successfully slam the door on any info. that you might not want Joe Public to see.

Google of course is not the "only game in town" when it comes to the availability of information on the internet. But it is far and away the largest. In 2018 Google handled no less than 90.8% of all internet searches (Jeff Desjardins, "This Chart Reveals Google’s True Dominance Over the Web", visualcapitalist dot com, April 20, 2018) and I doubt that that dominance has shrunk in the past five years. Additionally, Google owns and controls the content of Youtube, "the second biggest social media in the world, with over 2.7 billion active users" (demandsage dot com, February 2023 statistics). Finally, Google and FaceBook, the LARGEST social media platform on theplanet, which though ostensibly independent of one another, have formed a "partnership": ("Facebook and Google announced that they will be partnering to bring Facebook's retargeting platform, Facebook Exchange, to Google's Doubleclick." (bigfootprintdigital dot com, Oct. 25, 2022). All this means that Google, through its search engine and control over YouTube alone, controls what is available to nearly 3 BILLION people worldwide and if one adds in its influence over FaceBook, their dominance is huge--AND scary--AND undeniable.

I have begun collecting print books relating to issues, primarily social, that offer more complete pictures of those issues than what is available online. These will go to my grandchildren and great-grandchildren when that time comes. But even this, due to the surging popularity of e-books, is becoming harder and harder to accomplish. And how long will it take for even these books to be deemed "undesirable" and worthy of censure/destruction?

I don't know. Time will tell, I guess, and there seems to be less and less of that all the time.

Originally Posted by Topspinmo (Post 2261488)

Google in business to make money with information they gather. Same with FB, Wikipedia, and dozens more. If it’s free they are selling your information to other businesses. Do google search on product and you will get adds from other companies almost instantly. Don’t become billionaire’s by offering free service. Nothing free, they underlining profit.

Originally Posted by montysl (Post 2261483)

People really only need to use their eyes, ears and brains to observe the manipulation. Watch any Congressional hearing and/or session on any source. Now granted, one must be willing to do this WITHOUT your own agenda, but, if you do, THEN pose a question to Google using ANY phrasing, ANY word combination of your choice regarding what you have just seen with your own two eyes and heard with your own two ears and determine for yourself the bias level that exists. Then do the same on several other search engines and check the results! It’s a simple experiment but the differences will likely amaze you! I understand that those that desperately want a certain result will use whatever means necessary to justify the obvious bias but that can’t be helped. TRUTH will out.