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Google’s Benevolent Interfaith Big Tent

By Lucia Hulsether

…hi, to tracking the arrival of Yusuf’s flight from Pakistan—is premised on Google’s unbounded access to data. Google has so much information, that it almost seems to read the granddaughter’s mind. But who can fault them for it? If benevolent big data can heal partition, who are we to protest? All this places a new spin on recent disclosures that Google harvests its users’ information and sells it to advertisers, not to mention the revelation that…

The Google Question of Evil

By Michael Schulson

…oogle mean by evil? And how will Googlers know when Google has overstepped Google’s Google-imposed boundaries? Silicon Valley is not known for excessive concern about moral dilemmas (Bogost, a writer and video game designer, lives in the South, where moral angst is de rigueur). Still, Google has tried to answer these Big Questions. In a passage that will be illuminating for the religiously-inclined, Bogost discusses how Google chairman Eric Schmid…

Are You There God? It’s Us, Googling

By Michael Schulson

…ance to get their answer into your theologically-inclined field of vision. Google tailors search results to individual users based on past searchers and other tracking data. So when you ask Google about, say, the fundamental nature of evil, the first answer you get is determined not by centuries of hermeneutic tradition and theological reflection, but a combination of personalized algorithms and the vagaries of search engine optimization. So, whic…

Google-Phonics, Or, ‘What Is the Sound of a Thousand Tech Workers Meditating?’

By Kevin Healey

…idn’t know that I’d soon be asking a pointed—perhaps indignant—question to Google’s in-house mindfulness guru, Chade-Meng Tan. Arriving late at the Marriott Copley Place, I sat in the back of a seminar room and settled in for one of the few presentations that offered a critical analysis of corporate mindfulness programs. One slide referenced my own critique of the integrity bubbles that have come to characterize Silicon Valley’s spiritual meritocr…

Rage or Courage?: YouTube Terrorism Take Two

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…as the ironic function of providing, then patrolling, what is available on Google-owned YouTube. Google’s policy is to remove content only if it is hate speech, which violates its terms of service, or in response to valid court orders or government requests. After determining at first that, under its own guidelines, the offensive video was not hate speech, Google eventually announced that, “given the very difficult situation in Libya and Egypt we…

Claiming That ‘We Birthed a Nation From Nothing’ CNN’s Rick Santorum Gives a Master Class in Christian Nationalism: An Open Letter to CNN

By Andrew L. Seidel

…d against the Pequots—one of the genocides of indigenous peoples that Santorum brushes aside. The Puritans waged a holy war on the Pequots, setting fire to a village on the Mystic River, killing 700 indigenous men, women, and children, and selling the survivors into slavery. As I’ve written elsewhere, the genocide was like something out of the Book of Joshua. The Puritans certainly saw it that way. John Mason, the Puritan militia commander and an…

Scope Bacon, Twttr Hoaxes & Joel Osteen’s Big Reveal

By Deborah Whitehead

…ianity News” channel that featured screenshots of the website and doctored CNN and Drudge Report headlines appearing to confirm the news played over ominous-sounding music. A “Christianity News Texas” blog post on April 2, written by Tribble, reported on the “Special Announcement.” The combination of these interlocking, seemingly credible sites and the shocking nature of the story itself generated a large amount of attention in just a few days. T…

CNN Editor Leaves Over Tweet on Hezbollah ‘Giant’

By Hussein Rashid

Octavia Nasr, CNN’s senior Middle East editor, is no longer with CNN. Her departure from CNN shows a continued lack of consistency when it comes to issues of Arabs and Muslims in the mainstream media. She left for a tweet that said nothing except that she was human. Nasr is of Lebanese descent and proud of her birth land. Because of her professional and personal knowledge of the country, she expressed a sentiment over the death of Marja’ at-Taqli…

“Even the Rich Suffer”: An Interview with Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Chade-Meng Tan

By Max Zahn

…ed States. You still have problems. You don’t have enough money for infrastructure. If you did have enough money for infrastructure, you wouldn’t have enough for poverty alleviation or for libraries, and so on. But maybe what we have in America is just about right: a system near the middle, trending towards the capitalist end. Then we can rely on inner development to create more equity in society. But even in the United States there’s a poverty ra…

CNN’s Disastrous ‘Town Hall’ with Trump Put the Country at Risk

By Robert P. Jones

…litics, compared to only 14% of Americans. Notably, only 2% say they most trust CNN. Most do not blame Trump for the violence on January 6th, and one-third believe our current political and cultural context may justify political violence: Only 15% believe Donald Trump bears a lot of responsibility for the violent actions of the rioters who took over the U.S. Capitol building on January 6th, compared to a majority (56%) of Americans (PRRI survey, 2…