YouTube thinks Notre Dame burning down is footage of 9/11

Rob Beschizza 11:13 am Mon Apr 15, 2019

This ain't it, chief.

Previously: Fire at Notre Dame cathedral

UPDATE: Ryan Broderick points out the plain fact: YouTube's little truth widget is algorithmically-generated fake news.

I'm not sure there's a better metaphor for the state of the tech industry right now than an American social platform slapping an algorithmically-generated related article about an American terror attack on to a live stream about a completely unrelated French news story. pic.twitter.com/KLWGlg5NEc

— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) April 15, 2019

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