[gxigzigxigxi]

Hrm. It is different. Google going against fake news is google avoiding the promulgation of falsehoods. That is, in a sense, an effort to change people’s beliefs. But in that sense, anything and everything that google does or doesn’t do would be considered an effort to change beliefs, which makes it a useless statement.

[bzbarsky]

Google has no problems with promulgating falsehoods that are not classified as "fake news". Unfortunately, that definition involves a lot of motivated reasoning, on all sides.

> anything and everything that google does or doesn’t do would be considered an effort to change beliefs

Absolutely. Google (like so many other organizations) is making efforts to change beliefs all the time. That's not a problem per se, except they have so much leverage to _succeed_ at it that it might be worth thinking about the implications a bit. And statements that they don't do it don't help with that step.

[hammock]

>promulgation

Did you mean proliferation? (just trying to avoid falsehoods on HN)

[gxigzigxigxi]

No, I meant what I said.