Google filed a patent for a machine-learning tool intended to detect so-called mis- and disinformation but the company’s history of leftist bias does not inspire confidence in the new tool which could easily be abused for censorship.
According to the patent application, the tool would analyze social media posts and assign the content a score and category based on the predicted probability that it contains alleged misinformation and disinformation. Google even cited Facebook® postings, Twitter® tweets, [and] LinkedIn® posts)” as potential sources of content for the tool to analyze. However, with Google’s sordid history with biased algorithms, many fear yet another way for Google to censor those it disagrees with
The tool would specifically look for “information operations” of interest or “the dissemination of disinformation and/or other…
