The 'Brand Safety' and 'Suitability' industries have financially crushed the news business by keeping ads away from articles that its 'sentiment analysis' algorithms think will make people sad or upset.

Advertisers Don’t Want Sites Like Jezebel to Exist::The ‘Brand Safety’ and ‘Suitability’ industries have financially crushed the news business by keeping ads away from articles that its ‘sentiment analysis’ algorithms think will make people sad or upset.

  • NickwithaC@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    Honestly if advertising brings about the end of “the worse the better” news media then I’m fine with that.

    There’s too much outrage bait out there and the news needs to remember that it’s job is to inform people and make them enlightened, not give them emotional reactions and entrench them into ignorance.

    • theluddite@lemmy.mlEnglish
      33·
      1 year ago

      Our entire news ecosystem is putrid trash. Even our most prestigious and respected outlets are pumping out a constant stream of genocide apologia right now. Manufacturing Consent is decades old and should’ve ended the New York Times, and that was before they cheerlead our war into Iraq.

      Allowing advertising to decide which content is allowed and which isn’t won’t do anything but punish sites that deviate from mainstream orthodoxy and reward bland corporate friendly bullshit. Here’s what that Internet looks like.