I am surprised that any of this talk got as political as it did.
I've only been in the workforce for about 18 years but we always kept politics to a minimum, even in 2016.

I'm glad that Google seems to understand that their algorithms, which just feed people more and more of what they were already searching for, are creating isolated people who don't know what other people are experiencing as well as they used to.
Google seems hesitant to admit that your experience using their products may be different from your neighbors experience because of customized data that they have collected about you and your neighbor. In some ways this is good, but in other ways it is bad. They really should give everybody a switch that allows them to choose when they use Google products with all personalization and when they just use it with none, standard so to speak. That way we can have shared experience with our neighbors. So when I look up something about global warming I get the same top 10 results as my neighbor, for instance, if I choose to turn off personalization for that search.
But I'm disappointed that they don't seem to be looking in that direction they seem to think if they just come up with a better algorithm it will continue to customize stuff without pointing different people in different directions or amplifying stuff that is unreliable or fake. That's never going to happen. There will never be a fake news algorithm. It's going to take a human touch. Companies like Google either need to add a lot more humans to their Workforce to moderate things or they need to dial back all of the customization. Either way it's costly to Google. Costly enough that investigation AI seems cheap to them. But algorithms and AI won't save them.

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