Google announces hate crime news index

(Seeking Alpha) Google announces the Documenting Hate News Index, a cooperation between Google News lab, Pitch Interactive, and ProPublica to use machine learning to track and report on hate crimes around the country.<p>The project utilizes Google Cloud Natural Language API to scrape the prior six months of Google News for stories on hate crimes, biases, or related abuses and creates a visual tool that makes the information easier for reporters to use.

Hate crimes are nonsense. If something wasn&#x27;t a crime without the hate part, why should it be with it, when hating others is legal.

I don&#x27;t understand is this is meant to be an index of crime-reports (public information) or of news-stories. It sounds like the latter, but if you&#x27;re only focusing on the media and not the underlying incidents it&#x27;s hard to draw valid epidemiological conclusions.

It seems to be a index as in a index in a textbook as opposed to an index like the DOW from what I can see. I&#x27;d like to see something more along those lines for comparisons sake.

Google the gatekeepers, deciding the undecidable.<p>I find this dangerous.