Re:Google featured snippets are worse than fake news
by TuringTest on Monday March 06, 2017 @12:16PM
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> you're evaluating a statement based on its source rather than its merits, which is.. bad.
If you don't know the source, you have no way of knowing its merits, as you won't be aware of how the people came up with that knowledge.
When you're the #1 source of information on stuff in the world, that's an awful lot of power that can be trivially abused (e.g. "let's just blacklist unfavorable coverage of this lawsuit against us").