FSI | Cyber | Internet Observatory – Bing’s Top Search Results Contain an Alarming Amount of Disinformation

https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/bing-search-disinformation

Interesting. Bing searches produce more disinformation than Google. I wonder about some of the search engines, like DuckDuckGo.

«Bing’s importance in the information landscape of the U.S. shouldn’t be overlooked. While its share of the search market in the U.S. might be dwarfed by that of Google, it has steadily increased over»

https://twitter.com/keribla/status/1207165659358081029?s=20

This stems partly from the mentality that prison is for punishment.

Keri Blakinger (@keribla) Tweeted:
«Two months ago I wrote abt Frank Digges, who was beaten to death by guards in a Texas prison. His mom, of course, took it hard. She stopped watching TV & would just stare at the walls, her family said.

Her health deteriorated. This week, she died.»

https://t.co/nl3l29b1GT

Cases involving cops are steered to cop-friendly judges in NYC

https://twitter.com/DrRJKavanagh/status/1206142105158062083?s=20

Thread. The courts are supposed to be impartial arbiters of justice, right?

Rebecca Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) Tweeted:
«We need to reform the system in NYC whereby cases involving police officers as defendants or victims are steered to certain judges who have evidenced very clear pro-police bias.

We know it is almost impossible to get to the point where a police officer is arrested or charged.»

Economic populist arguments vs. racism

https://twitter.com/tomwatson/status/1205898873765613568?s=20

Twitter is so depressing.

Marcus H. Johnson (@marcushjohnson) Tweeted:
In my opinion the biggest takeaway from the UK election is that unabashed economic leftism didn’t win back the white working class from conservatives. That’s what translates most to US politics. It cuts to the heart of the Bernie/socialist argument here. It was race not class https://twitter.com/marcushjohnson/status/1205877973146128384?s=20

Tom Watson (@tomwatson) Tweeted:
The so-called WWC is not coming back. Shouldn’t even be defined this way any more. https://t.co/U20wNf6cu3

The kamikaze battleplan

https://members.tortoisemedia.com/2019/12/13/webster-kamikaze-battle-plan/content.html?sig=CbGXZFVK-FeMBEQNoE2X9jG0w_Vicrf1m9U1e83yXkg

«And so Labour girds itself for yet another leadership election. This one will presumably boil down eventually to a pro-Brexit northerner against a pro-Remain southerner.»

“Remain” is dead, though, isn’t it? Wouldn’t it have to be “Re-join” now?