Google says in a white paper today that it's "Why this ad?" tool is part of its efforts to fight disinformation because it's "enabling users to understand why they’re presented with a specific ad"

If you saw these, would you understand that "why"?https://t.co/U1OfMZKZ0B pic.twitter.com/MgH23ExGej

— Jeremy B. Merrill (@jeremybmerrill) February 18, 2019

Google has published a white paper on its plans to tackle "...the intentional spread of misinformation across Google Search, Google News, YouTube, and our advertising platforms"https://t.co/9aywd7jFN1 pic.twitter.com/lYg56B5lZ7

— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) February 18, 2019

Google/YT is doing a lot of work on mis/disinfo (see: https://t.co/8soXLQZWM8) but it's not all about keeping "malicious actors" at bay. Sometimes it's about telling the guy with 20 million subs, "hey, maybe don't suggest that 9/11 was an inside job, even as a gag."

— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) February 19, 2019

Google:”Algorithms cannot determine whether a piece of content on current events is true or false...The systems do not make subjective determinations [but] focus on measurable signals that correlate with how users & other sites value expertise, trustworthiness, authoritativeness” https://t.co/gTQ2oGV9cL

— Lewis Shepherd (@lewisshepherd) February 17, 2019

Yesterday Google published a 30 page white paper about how they fight disinformation across Google Search, Google News, YouTube and Google Ads. I read the paper and there's lots of good information in it which I'll summarize in this thread. https://t.co/03SnnL0OBI

— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) February 17, 2019

Reading Google's white paper on disinformation (https://t.co/aTBXlnQmDa), I'm reminded of a hypothesis we put forward last year re: the future of tech platforms amidst novel risks (attached). Arguably companies/platforms like Google are >prepared than others for stuff like GPT-2. pic.twitter.com/yDpkTE7dkw

— Miles Brundage (@Miles_Brundage) February 18, 2019

The whitepaper was an approachable & comprehensive overview of Google's anti-disinformation effort with 49 additional references in footnotes for more detail.

Ads was a bit light & YouTube story was a bit rosier than reality but overall a good effort. https://t.co/JfFiHORy3t

— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) February 17, 2019

Yesterday Google published a 30 page white paper about how they fight disinformation across Google Search, Google News, YouTube and Google Ads. I read the paper and there's lots of good information in it which I'll summarize in this thread. https://t.co/03SnnL0OBI

— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) February 17, 2019

"Google News’ purposes are explicitly narrower than those of Google Search and solely focused on coverage of current events, it builds its own ranking systems and content policies on top of those of Google Search." (From white paper cited in post) https://t.co/8rz1DOELkF

— Aaron Bradley (@aaranged) February 19, 2019

Google says in a white paper today that it's "Why this ad?" tool is part of its efforts to fight disinformation because it's "enabling users to understand why they’re presented with a specific ad"

If you saw these, would you understand that "why"?https://t.co/U1OfMZKZ0B pic.twitter.com/MgH23ExGej

— Jeremy B. Merrill (@jeremybmerrill) February 18, 2019

Google has published a white paper on its plans to tackle "...the intentional spread of misinformation across Google Search, Google News, YouTube, and our advertising platforms"https://t.co/9aywd7jFN1 pic.twitter.com/lYg56B5lZ7

— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) February 18, 2019