{"id":10702,"date":"2016-03-18T14:30:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/a-google-search-provides-the-appearance-of\/"},"modified":"2016-03-18T14:30:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T14:30:01","slug":"a-google-search-provides-the-appearance-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/a-google-search-provides-the-appearance-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A Google search provides the appearance of transparent and open results \u2013 of freely aggregated content. In reality, it produces \u2018informed\u2019 outcomes which are actually highly selective so that people make choices from among a limited set of options. Linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky wrote in 1989 that in democratic systems \u2018necessary illusions\u2019 with regard to freedom and control \u2018must be instilled in the public mind by more subtle means.\u2019 The \u2018more subtle means\u2019 today lie in \u2018Big Data\u2019 and complex algorithms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/newint.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/11\/google-and-facebook-flip-elections-code-rules-the-world\/\">If Google and Facebook can flip elections does code now rule the real world?<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/azspot.net\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">azspot<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Google search provides the appearance of transparent and open results \u2013 of freely aggregated content. In reality, it produces \u2018informed\u2019 outcomes which are actually highly selective so that people make choices from among a limited set of options. Linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky wrote in 1989 that in democratic systems \u2018necessary illusions\u2019 with regard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2MC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}