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
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    11 months 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.