Just going by the article, it really doesn't seem like the nature of what was going on is being articulated here.<p>- The ISIS video was not recommended by random chance, it was recommended because the "algorithm" thought it was <i>engaging</i>. Its a deliberate profit driven choice that Google failed to clamp, not some innocent software bug.<p>- Calling the Google's recommendation engine an "algorithm" is kinda like calling the Apollo program a research project. Its far from some nebulous side feature like they are describing it.<p>- They are also trivializing YouTube's UI design which, again, is a finely tuned engagement machine.<p>Maybe the justices are right about tech not being their area of expertise. But business ethics in relation to that "good faith" clause is precisely their thing... if the lawyers can boil things down to that.