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Belafon3/07/2015 3:53:27 pm PST

re: #226 Nyet

That doesn’t seem like a wise idea by Google. Truth-deciding algorithms? Yeah, sure.

Not everything has a “truth” but for those things that do, like climate change, it wouldn’t be that hard for an algorithm to determine it. Take a page that claims to deny global warming. The pages that go along with the junk will tend to point towards known junk sites, while those that link to it debunking it will fall from paths that generally tie to some kind of scientific site. If you start from a few known scientific and junk sites, you can find those that are considered more accurate, which is not saying the same thing as truth.