Big Tech Firms are Using Automation to Censor News About the Coronavirus

Macleod, Alan
http://www.mintpressnews.com/big-tech-firms-censoring-coronavirus-fake-news/265862/
Date Written:  2020-03-18
Publisher:  Mint Press News
Year Published:  2020
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX25124

Big tech is again attempting to define the range of acceptable political discussion on its platforms; this week YouTube announced a number of changes in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic, chief among those being that automated systems, rather than humans, will predominantly be authorizing or removing content in the foreseeable future.

Subject Headings

Insert T_CxShareButtonsHorizontal.html here