“Ethical Markets agrees with the many new calls for closer examination of the dominance of these new social media giants, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and others that are now such a dominant force in our societies, with little accountability.
We have called for monitoring of all algorithms to assess their assumptions and possible biases, as well as for an expansion of the legal tradition of “Habeas Corpus” since 1215 in Britain, to include the new “Information Habeas Corpus” (since we not only own our bodies, but also our heads, our brains and the information we produce). See our editorials “The Idiocy of Things” and “Artificial Intelligence+ Algorithms = Assumptions” and our TV shows at www.ethicalmarkets.com ~~HazeHenderson, Editor”
Stop Google from Suppressing Independent Media
A few weeks ago, AlterNet put out an SOS. We were getting slammed by Google’s new algorithm intended to fight “fake news.” We were losing millions of monthly visitors, and so was much of the progressive news media. Lost readership goes directly to the bottom line.
Our readers responded magnificently. More than 2,000 donors have joined the fight for independent journalism.
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We are fighting an inaccessible behemoth, with a complete lack of transparency.
It appears that Google has pushed popular, high-traffic progressive websites to the margins and embraced corporate media. Some speculate Google is trying to protect itself from critics of fake news at the expense of the valid independent outlets.
Just take a look at the numbers of readers Google has sent us—something has gone seriously wrong:
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