Timothy Birdnow

Here is a funny story; Google Home Robot has a story claiming Barack Obama is working with the Chinese to engineer a coup to seize power.

According to the U.K. Independent:

" And here's what happens if you ask Google Home "is Obama planning a coup?" pic.twitter.com/MzmZqGOOal
— Rory Cellan-Jones (@ruskin147) March 5, 2017

The problem appears to be a consequence of Google's smart search results. In an attempt to make searches faster, the site pulls small snippets out from various websites that can be shown on the results page – or read out by the Google Home – rather than clicking through to the page and reading it from there.

But because Google is pulling its answer to "Is Obama planning a coup" from the website 'Secrets of the Fed', it answers with the same conspiracy theory. The message is not just read out on the Google Home but shown to anyone who searches for the same question.

"According to details exposed in Western Center for Journalism's exclusive video, not only could Obama be in bed with the communist Chinese, but Obama may be in fact be planning a communist coup d'état at the end of his term in 2016!" anyone trying to find out whether or not Mr Obama is planning a coup will be told."

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Well, my question isn't if Obama is plotting with the Chinese to perpetrate a coup but rather if Google isn't trying to gin up more discussion of "fake news" because the Left lost control of that particular narrative when Conservatives started calling what the mainstream media was doing (that is, lying) fake news. So now they may want to reclaim the initiative on that, which, if you remember, was intended as a way of imposing censorship on the alternative media - outfits like Breitbart.

Google and other gatekeepers of news realized the genie had gotten out of the bottle, that websites were now having real influence and the Left's control of the narrative was slipping. Trump should have lost, by the traditional wisdom, and his victory spoke volumes. Those speaking Truth to Power had to be silenced.

Hence the "fake news" narrative. But it was turned against them.

I wonder if Google didn't do this to make the case for internet censorship. It's just like all the Black Lives Matter fake hate crimes, where they filed false police reports or painted swastikas on walls in dorms to taint the Trump people and the conservative movement, so too I suspect Google may be doing this to taint sites like The Aviary.

Look for more of this kind of thing in the future.

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