A group of the biggest technology companies in the US say they have banded together in a commitment to fight coronavirus-related fraud and misinformation. The group includes Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube. All seven companies sent out a joint statement Monday evening announcing the effort.

“We are working closely together on COVID-19 response efforts,” the joint statement reads. “We’re helping millions of people stay connected while also jointly combating fraud and misinformation about the virus, elevating authoritative content on our platforms, and sharing critical updates in coordination with government healthcare agencies around the world. We invite other companies to join us as we work to keep our communities healthy and safe.”

Nice, they care for us. May be. But most probably not.

Google will start indexing all websites by their mobile versions beginning in September. Google was already using mobile-first indexing for new domains, but this change will apply the phone-friendly indexing to all domains.

Most people do not understand that Google ranking is now among main forms of censorship. And forcing "mobile friendly" will lead tens of thousands of nice useful sites to be ditched and SEO made land pages and easy generated content will go up.

We already can see how Google algorithms lead to much worse content quality, as they are dump as hell, even total idiot will rank content 100x better.

New twitter feature coming

Hope this Twitter will die in pain very soon.

And @Vitaliy...where did the above quote originate ?

Youtube blog post, latest.

I have no idea what u mean by "Most very frequent searches on google are... manual" ?

I explained, they specially modify algorithms, pull results to top pages and even add completely absent results to form necessary first and second pages.

@kurth

Most very frequent searches on google are... manual. With special algos modifications and just bare results inserts that otherwise will be on 1007 page.

Political news and events can be subject to misinformation, so the availability of quality information sources is crucial. That’s why we raise up authoritative voices, including news sources, for news and information in search results and “watch next” panels. Millions of search queries and recommendations are getting this authoritative ranking treatment today, and we're continuing to improve and expand our systems.

Wanted your shitty major TV outlets on Youtube? No? Bad for ya.

Facebook (FB.O) said on Saturday it had issued a correction notice on a user’s post at the request of the Singapore government, but called for a measured approach to the implementation of a new “fake news” law in the city-state.

“Facebook is legally required to tell you that the Singapore government says this post has false information,” said the notice, which is visible only to Singapore users. The correction label was embedded at the bottom of the original post without any alterations to the text.

The Singapore government said on Friday it had instructed Facebook “to publish a correction notice” on a Nov. 23 post which contained accusations about the arrest of a supposed whistleblower and election rigging.

Facebook often blocks content that governments allege violate local laws, with nearly 18,000 cases globally in the year to June, according to the company’s “transparency report.”

And now, imagine this all this posts happen across 1000-5000 independent communities, lot of problems to do same.
This is why all major media told you each minute to come to Facebook for years.

Slow preparations and privatization of everything

On June 30th, ICANN, the non-profit that oversees all domain names on the internet, agreed to remove price caps on rates for .org domain names — which were previously pretty cheap.

Public Interest Registry (PIR), which maintains the .org top-level domain, announced that it will be acquired by Ethos Capital, a private equity firm.

Why it is required? It makes it much simpler to censor sites in .org domains.

@bradneffphoto

Sometimes if you can't respond at the proper level people try personal attacks to undermine opponent. It is bad approach. Spend time reading and return to talk on proper level instead.

@bradneffphoto

Let's focus on content and topic title. No such way as "government censorship" exist in abstract. as government acts in the interest of classes.

Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism - ruling class organization against you

The new, independent GIFCT will integrate its existing work to develop technology, cultivate strong corporate policies and sponsor research with efforts to fulfill commitments in the nine-point action plan released after the Christchurch Call. More importantly, it will institutionalize the spirit of shared purpose that the Call represents. GIFCT has made significant achievements since it was founded in 2017, and worked closely with a range of governments, particularly under the auspices of the European Union Internet Forum, but the horrific terrorist attack in Christchurch and the extraordinary virality of the attacker’s video online illustrated the need to do even more. We believe these next steps are best executed within an industry-led framework with deep input from both civil society and governments.

Youtube

Because of this ongoing work, over the last 18 months we’ve reduced views on videos that are later removed for violating our policies by 80%, and we’re continuously working to reduce this number further.

It is time to make some other video platform, without Google.

YouTube must leave up some videos that are “controversial or even offensive” in order to remain an open platform, said YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki .

Wojcicki outlined a new way that YouTube is framing its existing set of goals to keep the platform a positive, healthy space. She calls them the four “R”s: removing prohibited content quickly, raising up authoritative voices, reducing the spread of problematic content, and rewarding proper aka "trusted" creators

Nicer and nicer.