Great Moments in Robo-News

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I found this amusing, and it certainly isn’t the first time I’ve seen it: Google News puts its front page together via algorithm, as opposed to human editors. This can produce some, umm, misleading presentations, such as the top-of-page front page article below, in which the face of the smiling, youthful writer of the article is adjacent to an alarming headline about a dangerous escapee from prison.

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