Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Tuesday, April 16th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, YouTube's algorithms are abhorrent in a new way, details on the next PlayStation console,

Google makes nice with developers, and three interesting sides to the Tik-Tok story.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Yesterday during the live streaming video coverage of the tragic Notre Dame Fire,

if you watched on YouTube underneath the video you saw a panel linking to an

article about the 9-11 attacks on New York City in 2001, an article from Encyclopedia Britannica.

Now this is not me trying to find a tech angle to a big story.

There's a real point to be made here.

The panel below the video was there because it's part of YouTube's fact-checking efforts

to fight misinformation and conspiracy theories on the platform.

So of course there is no small amount of irony here that the thing that YouTube has

implemented to fight misinformation could have in the early hours of a major news

event when no one knew the cause of the fire could have led people to jump to the conclusion that this was

a terrorist incident like 9-11 was.

Quote, these panels are triggered algorithmically and our systems sometimes make the wrong call a YouTube spokesperson said.

As Ryan Broderick said on Twitter, quote, I'm not sure there's a better metaphor for the state of the tech industry right now than an American social platform slapping an

algorithmically generated related article about an American terror

attack on a live stream about a completely unrelated French news story and quote

and Casey Newton tweeted, quote,

it's also a powerful symbol of the degree

to which YouTube is not actually under YouTube's control,

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