Google will restrict non-mainstream content for 2024 elections

The thing that kills me about the below quote…

The mainstream media has been doing this for years and years. Sometimes on mistake, sometimes on purpose — presumably. Sometimes it’s what they thought was the truth, but it turned out to be fake itself. We all just lived through that in 2020.

Ahh, but now the world is filled with AI that keeps filling an already filled world with more junk. Google and the other information controllers don’t just apply these rules to elections, but to most things from data released over the years.

So I say, cheers to 2024 and beyond…

To safeguard our platforms, we have long standing policies that inform how we approach areas like manipulated media, hate and harassment, incitement to violence, and demonstrably false claims that could undermine democratic processes. For over a decade, we’ve leveraged machine learning classifiers and AI to identify and remove content that violates these policies.