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Google autocomplete & conspiracy theories
2022-04-04 18:28:46.323864+02 by
Dan Lyke
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Simon Fraser University: Google autocomplete helps mislead public, legitimize conspiracy theorists: SFU study
In a study published in M/C Journal this month, researchers with The Disinformation Project at the School of Communication at SFU looked at the subtitles Google automatically suggested for 37 known conspiracy theorists and found that, “in all cases, Google’s subtitle was never consistent with the actor’s conspiratorial behaviour.”
How Google Autocomplete Algorithms about Conspiracy Theorists Mislead the Public
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2852
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