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PapaBearJ
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Apr 07, 2024

Content Choices for MS Start

I hope I am posting in the correct place. Sometimes it is difficult to know if the Edge group or Bing group is the most appropriate. 

I have gone through the MS Start preferences and set them where I want them. To say figuring all of that out is a tad confusing is a bit of an understatement. At one point it prompted me for sources I wat to see, and I chose the ones I wanted. But sources I did not chose regularly come through. It is always difficult, (and I sometimes just give up,) to find how to block sources I do not want to see.

 

Lately there seems to be an explosion of sources that have very little credibility or journalistic integrity, and that lack veracity and/or are biased to the absolute extreme. Additionally, there are sources that are owned, operated, and funded by foreign entities which have been identified as religious cults and that are most assuredly attempting to influence and affect the current election cycle.

 

I personally question the credibility, veracity, and integrity of any news organization that a court of law has found made up everything it said about an event or entity and that admitted it does make up news that meets the expectations of its base so as to not alienate them. But that is just me.

 

I know this is a huge issue right now with Congress and the Supreme Court both considering actions at this point. But at the very least there should be some journalistic standards set which permit the spectrum of political perspectives but also weeds out some of the cooks.

 

An example of this is a source I saw this past week for the very first time called That's Viral Now. Their writers are producing 6-8 stories a day that are crafted from reading other news sources and never a primary source or document. One writer is self-described as "dynamic and viral writer, has taken the literary world by storm with her exceptional storytelling prowess" but definitely does not understand the legal system and attempts to provide legal analysis which would be hysterical if it weren't so tragic. A Bing search comes up with nothing about this individual, so I am not quite certain there is or has ever been a related storm.

 

Bottom line is I look to MS Start for interesting, good, factual credible information and news articles regardless of political persuasion. I trust Microsoft. But what is coming across the feed now is in some cases down-right absurd. Microsoft Start has community guidelines applied by AI which is often a mystery why someth8ing is censored. Microsoft Start similarly should have Journalistic Guidelines for sources wanting to be featured in the MS Start feed.

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    PapaBearJ
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    WOW... the answers are so quiet it's deafening.

    Microsoft, why no response?