Google’s Gemini Adds Fuel To Raging Fire Of AI Culture Wars

With artificial intelligence quickly becoming the hottest commodity in the technology industry, many prominent companies are working on creating, coding, and publishing their own AI services. The most recent entity to throw their hat into the ring was Google when they released their ‘Gemini’ model into the world. One of the main capabilities the model …

Great People Are White People, According to Google

“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”Malcolm X The term, misogynoir, coined by African American feminist and activist Moya Bailey, was developed to describe “the specific hatred, dislike, …

Anatomy of the Alt-Right Pipeline

How YouTube's algorithms have led unsuspecting viewers into the depths of extreme conservatism, and why the problem won't be going away anytime soon "day 12/365" by Shehan Peruma is licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. For the companies behind your favorite social media sights, engagement is currency; hence, their algorithms are designed to encourage …

What is SEO and how does it effect search engines?

Image from Oberlo.com Many people trust that Google or whatever your preferred search engine is will always put the best and most credible sources first. However, this is an assumption that has been proved wrong many times. Why is this? Wouldn’t Google want to give its users credible information first? The internet can be a …

Google AdSense

Mia Len Photo by Benjamin Dada on Unsplash Picture this - you’re on Youtube taking a study break and all of a sudden, in the bottom right corner of the screen, an ad for that Patagonia jacket you’ve had in your online “cart” for weeks appears. You click on it, but at the same time, you are freaked …

The User Data Feedback Loop

The user data feedback loop is revolutionizing modern day internet by using algorithms to make each user's experience - unique. Digital devices track all information entered into the system. This includes one’s digital likes, dislikes, viewings, shares, searches, texts, downloads and even data collected when the device is not actively in use, like GPS data. Media …

The Human Error Behind Algorithmic Mistakes

YouTube error screen (photo courtesy of Brad Reed) The list of times where problematic content has been spread across the internet through manipulation of an algorithm is nearly never-ending. Many examples of this can be found on Facebook. The platform uses its algorithm to create a "Year in Review" highlight video for its users. While …

The Impact of Google on Journalism

Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez; Photograph via Getty Images Google is one of the largest companies in America, and it’s no surprise that it would have an impact on journalism today. There are both positives and negatives to Google’s impact on journalism. Google’s AdSense is one tool that has impacted journalism. AdSense is a way for …

Deciphering Fake News

When we hear the words "fake news" in 2020, our minds often become hijacked by images of a large, orange haired man who spends more time on Twitter than any teenager we have ever met. However, fake news really boils down to something that is beyond unfavorable criticism of our Commander in Chief. According to …