Helen Li

Helen Li is a journalist at Semafor, covering technology and media. She was previously a reporter at The Jakarta Post and Al Jazeera. Her work has been published in South China Morning Post, where she covered the Rohingya refugee crisis in Indonesia.

Biography:  https://www.semafor.com/article/12/28/2023/indonesians-are-protesting-rohingya-refugees

45%

The overall score is a weighted number that takes into account conflict of interest, bias, deception and other practices that undermines the credibility of the source. It is calculated as:
Analysis.OverallConflictOfInterestScore * 0.3F + Analysis.OverallBiasScore * 0.3F + Analysis.DeceptivenessScore * 0.3F + Analysis.ReadabilityScore * 0.1F

A score that takes into consideration the content for flow, interruptions with ads, and overt search engine optimization techniques that makes the content hard to understand

The Daily's Verdict

This author has a poor reputation for journalistic standards and is not considered a reliable news source.

Bias

50%

Examples:

  • Cookies have long been an integral part of the internet
  • Privacy activists and advertising companies are concerned that Google’s changes will simply reinforce its dominance.

Conflicts of Interest

35%

Examples:

  • Advertising representatives say this could create several hours of latency, hurting revenue.
  • Google itself has previously acknowledged that website owners using their new replacement technologies could experience delays in loading user information

Contradictions

50%

Examples:

  • Google plans to eliminate cookies for all its Chrome users by the end of 2024
  • Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari browsers have also placed limits on cookies

Deceptions

40%

Examples:

  • Google has begun restricting the use of third-party cookies by default on Chrome
  • The search giant plans to eliminate cookies for all its Chrome users by the end of 2024.

Recent Articles

Google Kills Cookies for One Percent of Chrome Users Globally on January 4th

Google Kills Cookies for One Percent of Chrome Users Globally on January 4th

Broke On: Friday, 05 January 2024 Google has started disabling third-party cookies for one percent of Chrome users, which is about 30 million people. The company announced that it will kick things off by disabling cookies for a random one percent of Chrome users globally on January 4.