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Farhad's and Mike's Week in Tech: A Snap and Google Tie-Up?
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 5.8.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, Google, Instagram, marketing, Snapchat
Summary | There is a rumor that Google might be interested in acquiring Snapchat. Instagram copies all features of Snapchat. Facebook has built a huge marketing company with Facebook itself and Instagram. Facebook is also working on improving its artificially intelligent chatbots so that they get better at understanding natural speech.
Image Description | Google and Snapchat logo.
Image Tags | Google, logo, Snapchat
YouTube Sets Policies To Restrict Extremism
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 18.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, marketing, threat, YouTube
Summary | Google has been using artificial intelligence to weed out offensive videos from YouTube and take them down. It is quite good at detecting nudity, graphic violence, and copyright violations. However, other less straightforward offensive material remains on the platform such as cultish sermons by extremist muslims. These are however not being monetized by displaying advertising next to them.
Image Description | An image of the London Tower and a portrait of a man.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Merkel says big internet firms 'distort perception': Chancellor demands Facebook and Google make their algorithms public
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 28.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, Google, marketing, politics, privacy
Summary | Merkel wants Facebook and Google to be more transparent and reveal the algorithms that select stories people see. She claimed that those algorithms distort our perception of reality. Internet giants don't agree with that; they said that viewers have access to a wide range of opinions.
Image Description | Photograph of Angela Merket speaking at a conference, photograph of the Facebook logo with the reaction buttons, and Twitter logo.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), logo, Twitter
Google ad controversy: what the row is all about
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 17.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Google, marketing, misunderstanding, YouTube
Summary | The new automized online advertising sale process is causing problems. Many advertisers are unhappy because their ads have appeared next to inapproproate content. Then YouTube has tried to classify more content as inappropriate. Because this flagging process is also partly automatizes, many videos with LGBT content or other innocent content are being discriminated against.
Image Description | A Getty image of a Google sign and a graphic about how programmatic advertising works.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, Google, male(s)
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