Google chief Sundar Pichai, who unveiled the updated Google News earlier this month,
said the app now "surfaces the news you care about from trusted sources while still giving you a full range of perspectives on events.According to product chief Trystan Upstill, the news app "uses the best of artificial intelligence to find the best of human intelligence -- the great reporting done by journalists around the globe."
While the app will enable users to get "personalized" news, it will also include top stories for all readers, aiming to break the so-called filter bubble of information designed to reinforce people´s biases.
"Having a productive conversation or debate requires everyone to have access to the same information," Upstill said.There´s been a fantasy of (algorithmic) personalized news for a log time," said New York University journalism professor Meredith Broussard.Nobody has ever gotten it right. I think that news designers and home page editors do a good job of curating already."
Google and Facebook have also been criticized for scooping up most online ad revenues and for enabling false information to spread.Recently, News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson called for an "algorithm review board" that would "oversee these historically influential digital platforms and ensure that there is no algorithmic abuse or censorship.
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