salon

Google could launch an effort to keep trolls and bad information at bay, with a program that would rank websites according to veracity, and sort results according to those rankings. Currently, the search engine ranks pages according to popularity, which means that pages containing unsubstantiated celebrity gossip or conspiracy theories, for example, show up very high.

Climate change deniers are freaking out about this.

sir-hathaway

Fox News is also freaking out about this.

lavenderharmony

DO IT GOOGLE

DO IT

FUCKING DO IT

DO IT 

kyraneko

This feels like the moment when Han Solo comes roaring back in the Millennium Falcon and knock’s Darth Vader out of commission to give Luke a clear run at the Death Star exhaust port. “Yeahoo!”

lesyaholmes

PULL THE TRIGGER GIGGLET

silver-tongues-blog

“Let the public decide what’s the truth” sounds like something a dictator would say after convincing the public that he’s not an evil dictator