Thursday, February 4, 2016

BREAKING: Obama Just Quietly Signed the TPP

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Obama just quietly signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership, one of the biggest multinational trade deals in history.

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Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Google To Show Wrong Search Results To Combat Terrorism

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A senior Google executive has announced that the search giant will start delivering the wrong search results to jihadi sympathizers as a counter-terrorism measure. The Daily Mail reports: As part of a pilot scheme, the search engine will show anti-radicalisation links when would-be jihadists type in words related to extremism. The announcement was made by Dr Anthony House, a senior Google executive, while giving evidence to MPs in the UK parliament. ‘We are working on counter-narratives around the world. This year one of the things we’re looking at is we are running two pilot programmes,’ said Dr House. ‘One is to make sure these types of views are more discoverable. ‘The other is to make sure when people put potentially damaging search terms into our search engine they also find these counter narratives.’ Google has yet to respond to DailyMail.com on details of the pilot scheme, and whether it will be rolled out globally. Dr House says the counter-narrative messages will appear in the sponsored links which are returned at the top of a Google search, rather than in the search results. ‘We offer Google AdWords Grants to NGOs so that meaningful counter-speech ads can be surfaced in response to search [...]

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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Now There’s a Math Formula for Disproving Conspiracy Theories

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Human beings are pretty unpredictable. It's not like you can come up with a mathematical formula for predicting how long it would take for a conspiracy to unravel, right?

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Doom Porn: The Benefits of Friends Who Don The Tin Foil Hat - - Richard Masta

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