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AI Blackmail & Clickbait: Give Us Dirty Laundry
Despite all the hype about AI threatening blackmail, here’s what really happened…
What Are My Recommendations for Reining in/Reforming Google?
Part 10: Here’s one thing: If Google claims Section 230 and DMCA protections but actively moderates or curates content, it is a publisher, not a neutral platform
No Mark Zuckerberg, AI ‘Friends’ Are Not Good for Mental Health
Zuckerberg's proposed AI friends will not alleviate the epidemic of loneliness and depression and I can tell you a few reasons why
Pulling the Strands Together to Chart Life After Google
In Part 9, we begin by looking at how the manipulation directly affects you when you search for information
What Public Policies Can Help Us Achieve a Less Biased Internet?
Part 8: Robert Epstein proposes a number of changes worth considering
How Google Can Control and Manipulate Public Opinion
In Part 7, Robert Epstein, former editor of Psychology Today, offers some disturbing information on how search engines can be manipulated for political purposes
The Last Humanist: What the Digital Age Can’t Replace
My review of Superbloom by Nicholas Carr, perhaps the last critic standing, with thoughts on some of his earlier books
How Google Search Rank Disrupted the Alternative Health Industry
Part 6: Google’s bias is as real as ever, but the firm has deflected it to an impersonal policy that gives an air of objectivity
Google’s Power Over Online Business: Monopolistic and Extravagant
Part 5: To help people understand Google’s power over online businesses, I ask. What if the road on which the local Walmart is located suddenly became a dirt trail?
Becoming a Slave to Google: How It Happens
Part 4: After an update, you always have to second guess what Google did. You become a reverse engineer who never sees under the hood
A Potential Chink in Google’s Armor: Loss of Legal Immunity
Part 3: Currently, Google is legally protected from the consequences of frequent copyright violation
The Utter Dependence of Online Businesses on Google
Part 2: An SEO business needs to please Google or else it is dead in the water
The Evilization of Google—And What to Do About It
Part 1: Understanding Google's dominance over the internet
Wikipedia Cofounder on Wikipedia, AI, Bias, and Human Knowledge
In the podcast, Sanger explains Wikipedia’s early attempts to reflect a neutral point of view, It was, he says, just a dream
US judge finds that Google’s online ad tech monopoly is illegal
Snapchat Has Been Totally Exposed
Employees admit the harms of the camera app
Facebook Ends Fact-Checking, Moves to Community Notes Format
Top executive admits that there was "too much political bias" at Facebook, Instagram, Threads…
Are We Experiencing a Universal Cognitive Decline?
People are increasingly having trouble reading, focusing, and solving complex problems.A new study shows that people are struggling more than ever to read, concentrate, and solve problems. The research comes just a few months after Oxford’s indicative decision to make “Brain Rot” its 2024 “Word of the Year.” Common experience itself lends itself to the conclusion that we are struggling to focus, that our attention is fragmented, and that simply thinking about one issue for more than a few seconds is difficult. The Financial Times reported that intelligence and reasoning capacities have declined since the early 2010s. While the COVID-19 pandemic is commonly blamed for the plummet and is indeed responsible for much of the cognitive decline, the downward trend preceded the crisis according to the study. John Burn-Murdoch reports: Read More ›
