How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News: Exploring the Impacts of Social Media, Deepfakes, GPT-3, and More

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N. GiansiracusaHow Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake Newshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7155-1_6

6. Gravitating to Google

The Dangers of Letting an Algorithm Answer Our Questions

Noah Giansiracusa¹  

(1)

Acton, MA, USA

 

Search engines have come to play a central role in corralling and controlling the ever-growing sea of information that is available to us, and yet they are trusted more readily than they ought to be. They freely provide, it seems, a sorting of the wheat from the chaff, and answer our most profound and most trivial questions. They have become an object of faith.

—Alex Halavais, Search Engine Society

Billions of people turn to Google to find ...