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Government green paper proposes rules for platforms like YouTube to give special prominence to BBC ITV and Channel 4. Aim is to fight misinformation by making public service news easier to find. YouTube told creators new rules could control your feed and require putting some channels above others. Independent voices criticizing government could get less …
Group shopped and insta carted same store and got 4 to 7 diff prices same items. Instacart is trying to find perfect price point and make money above what target prices say. Algorithms are used to determine what people will actually pay. h/t Coastie Patriot
Aleyda Solis has a quick summary on X where she summed up part of the leak: There are 14K ranking features and more in the docs Google has a feature they compute called “siteAuthority” Navboost has a specific module entirely focused on click signals representing users as voters and their clicks are stored as their votes …
The nation’s largest health insurance company pressured its medical staff to cut off payments for seriously ill patients in lockstep with a computer algorithm’s calculations, denying rehabilitation care for older and disabled Americans as profits soared, a STAT investigation has found. UnitedHealth Group has repeatedly said its algorithm, which predicts how long patients will need …
