Google Executive Says New Algorithm Will Hide RT, Sputnik Articles

Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, announced Saturday that the company will “engineer” algorithms that will make it harder for articles from Sputnik News and RT to appear on the Google News service. “We are working on detecting and de-ranking those kinds of sites — it’s basically RT and Sputnik,” Schmidt […]

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Facebook adds ‘trust indicators’ to news articles to offer publisher info

PanARMENIAN.Net – Since the outbreak of its fake news crisis last year, Facebook has announced several initiatives designed to promote authentic, fact-based journalism. on Thursday, November 16, the company is rolling out its latest: what Facebook calls a “trust indicator”, an icon that you can tap to learn more about the publisher of articles shared […]

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Twitter is now giving everyone 280 characters

PanARMENIAN.Net – Twitter tested extending its 140-character limit in September, and now it wants to assure users that during that test, “the brevity of Twitter remained.” On Tuesday, November 7 afternoon, Twitter — a social network born out of the conceit of 140-character brevity — announced it would expand its character limit to 280 characters […]

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