U.S. Dance Radio Hits
The following is a survey of the most popular songs played on dance radio since 2001. Our mission is to create a central location where you can get a feel for what’s playing on dance radio across the country—regardless of whether there’s a dance station in your area or not. Think of Dance Radio Megamix as the music page of record.
Unlike a radio station’s weekly playlist, our current compilation is a year-to-date listing of the country’s most popular songs played on dance radio (terrestrial, satellite, and Web-only). Dance Radio Megamix is a cumulative index. In addition to each week’s top 30 tracks, we also take into consideration songs that break out gradually from station to station. Since our radio panel is relatively small, we factor in each station’s top tracks throughout the year as well. This is the only survey that includes a number of Internet radio stations.
Never Miss a Beat
You can click on the Play button below and follow our preset links to the two sites that have become a great showcase for music: YouTube and SoundCloud. You can also enjoy streaming audio courtesy of the stations listed in our dance radio directory. To search for specific audio samples on the Internet, your next best bets are official artist Web sites and those operated by record labels and record retailers.
Check out the Music Menu in the sidebar column. And scroll down to see the Megamix Vault Menu. We’d also like to help listeners identify songs heard on defunct radio stations. Here’s a shopping tip: If you click on “Sale” below and find no matching CD results, click on Amazon.com’s Search box, select Digital Music from the drop-down menu, and then press Go.
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| Type | Monitored Stations/Channels |
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| Terrestrial | WZFL Miami, KNHC Seattle, KGHD Las Vegas, KHYZ Victor Valley, Calif. |
| Digital HD | iHeartRadio Evolution (WFLZ-HD3 Tampa, et al.), Channel Q (KNX-HD2 Los Angeles, et al.), KAMP-HD2 Los Angeles (Pulse 87 simulcast), KMVQ-HD2 Bay Area |
| Satellite | Sirius XM BPM |
| Cable | Music Choice Dance/Electronica |
| Web-only | Pulse 87, ElectricFM, Nexus Radio, Radio Danz, Energy 98 |
Megamix
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Megamix 2025
Artist [Alternate Name] [Country] Title (Radio Mix) [Key Lyrics] [Vocal ID] [Play] Shop
AAbove & Beyond & Zoe Johnston [UK] Quicksand (Don't Go) [►] Sale Yolanda Adams Church Doors (Terry Hunter Remix) Sale Afrojack [Nick van de Wall] [NL] Never Forget You [Never regret you] [►] Sale Akon [Aliaune Akon Thiam] Akon's Beautiful Day (David Guetta & Hypaton Remix) [God, thank you for sunshine] [M] Sale Alesso x Becky Hill [Alessandro Lindblad] [SE/UK] Surrender [Baby, give me something to remember] [►] Sale Alok & Clementine Douglas [Alok Petrillo] [BR/UK] Body Talk [Hear your body talking] [►] Sale Alok, Gryffin & Julia Church [Dan Griffith] [BR/US/ZA] Never Letting Go [Again] [►] Sale Anyma Featuring Ellie Goulding [Matteo Milleri] Hypnotized [I feel hypnotized] [►] Sale Anyma, Massano & Nathan Nicholson [Sam Rosbotham-Williams] [US/UK/US] Angel in the Dark [+M] [►] Sale Steve Aoki, Sam Feldt & Xandra With Nile Rodgers & Zak Abel [Sammy Renders/Alexandra Pohl] [US/NL/US] I'm Going Out [M] [►] Sale AR/CO x Punctual x NewEra [UK/IE] Generation Love [M] [►] Sale Arty x Louis III [Artem Stolyarov/Louis Du Sauzay] [RU/UK] Lost in Loving You [M] [►] Sale Audien x Arty Featuring Sara Davis [Nate Rathbun/Artem Stolyarov] [US/RU] One More Thing [►] Sale Avicii Featuring Sandro Cavazza [Tim Bergling] [SE] Forever Yours (Tim's 2016 Ibiza Version) [Tell me I'm forever yours] [M] [►] Sale Avicii Featuring Elle King [SE] Let's Ride Away [►] Sale
BBenny Benassi & Oaks [Marco Benassi/Winona Oak (Johanna Ekmark)] [IT/SE] Never Been Yours [►] Sale Bingo Players x Landis Featuring Justnkayse [Maarten Hoogstraten] [NL/US] Adrenaline [Rush] [►] Sale Blond:ish [Vivie-ann Bakos] [CA] Self Love [►] Sale Blond:ish & Stevie Appleton [CA/UK] Never Walk Alone [Can't do without you] [M] [►] Sale Jonas Blue Featuring Izzy Bizu [Guy James Robin] [UK] Lifeline [Ain't nobody on my lifeline] [►] Sale Jaden Bojsen & David Guetta [DE/FR] Let's Go [We're going to Hi] [+M] [►] Sale
CFelix Cartal & Reve [Taelor Deitcher/Briannah Donolo] [CA] Dancing in a Dream [►] Sale James Carter Featuring CARMA [UK] 2 Days [M] [►] Sale Cash Cash Featuring lovelytheband When I Got You [M] [►] Sale Cheat Codes Don't Leave [My life] [M] [►] Sale Chrystal [Chrystal Orchard] [UK] The Days (Edit, Notion Remix) [Do you think about the days when we sat down] [►] Sale Clean Bandit x Tiesto x Leony [Tijs Verwest/Leonie Burger] [UK/NL/DE] Tell Me Where U Go [►] Sale Coco & Breezy & Aluna [Corianna and Brianna Dotson/Aluna Francis] [US/UK] Sunday Best [In my Sunday best] [►] Sale Joel Corry [UK] Be Alright [Me and you tonight] [M] [►] Sale CYRIL Featuring Maryjo [Cyril Riley] [AU] Still Into You [►] Sale Miley Cyrus End of the World [Let's pretend it's not the end of the world] Sale
DNathan Dawe x Abi Flynn [UK] Here in Your Arms [I'm staying] [►] Sale Don Diablo & MK Featuring Gaby Gerlis [Don Schipper/Marc Kinchen] [NL/US] Next to Me [When you're next to me] [►] Sale Disco Fries x Mintd x Kayrae Never Mine [►] Sale D.O.D Featuring NORTH [Daniel O'Donnell] [UK] Wrap Yourself Around Me [►] Sale Doechii [vs. Gotye] [Jaylah Hickmon] Anxiety [►] Sale Dom Dolla Featuring Daya [Dominic Matheson] [AU] Dreamin [Now I think I'm dreaming] [►] Sale Dom Dolla x Kid Cudi [Scott Mescudi] [AU/US] Forever [I wanna stay forever] [M] [►] Sale Dom Dolla & Tove Lo [Ebba Tove Nilsson] [AU/SE] Cave [I can feel my walls coming down] [►] Sale
EElephante Featuring babyidontlikeyou [Tim Wu] Taste of Your Tongue [►] Sale Empire of the Sun & Eric Prydz [AU/SE] We Are Mirage (Radio Edit) [Are you gonna leave me now] [M] [►] Sale Anabel Englund Zen Cowboy [►] Sale Anabel Englund x Punctual [US/UK] Falling Up [►] Sale
FSonny Fodera & Clementine Douglas [Simon Whitlock] [AU/UK] Tell Me [Will you still love me] [►] Sale
GMartin Garrix & Jex [Martijn Garritsen/Jordan Miller] [NL/US] Told You So [Something in my body] [►] Sale Martin Garrix & Arijit Singh [NL/IN] Angels for Each Other [M+Hindi] [►] Sale Layton Giordani Featuring Linney & Sarah De Warren [Richard Layton Giordani] Act of God [►] Sale Glockenbach & Norma Jean Martine [DE/US] Anthem [For you] [►] Sale Gorgon City Featuring Caroline Byrne [UK] Run It Back [►] Sale Gryffin x Kaskade Featuring Nu-La [Dan Griffith/Ryan Raddon] In My Head [You're still living in my head] [►] Sale GT_Ofice [Caine Sheppard] Someone Else [But you're someone to someone else] [M] [►] Sale GT_Ofice, Matthew Topper & Petie [Peter Palazzolo] Something New [And we're always on the run to something new] [M] [►] Sale David Guetta, Alphaville & Ava Max [Amanda Koci] [FR/DE/US] Forever Young [Just one more time] [+M] [►] Sale David Guetta, Hypaton & Europe [Giorgio Ortenzi] [FR/IT/SE] The Final Countdown 2025 [M] [►] Sale David Guetta & Sia [Sia Furler] [FR/AU] Beautiful People [Say go, go, go] [►] Sale
HCalvin Harris [Adam Wiles] [UK] Smoke the Pain Away [M] [►] Sale Calvin Harris Featuring Clementine Douglas [UK] Blessings [No looking back this time] [►] Sale Hayla [Hayley Williams] [UK] Visions of You [►] Sale Ella Henderson [UK] Filthy Rich (Jay Dixie Remix) Sale Becky Hill x MK [Marc Kinchen] [UK/US] Swim [►] Sale The Hotel Lobby Believe in Me [If you'd only believe in me] [►] Sale The Hotel Lobby Don't Say a Thing [►] Sale HUGEL & Diplo Featuring Malou & Yuna [Florent Hugel/Thomas Pentz] [FR/US] Forever [In my mind] [►] Sale James Hype [James Marsland] [UK] Don't Wake Me Up [If you see me dreaming] [►] Sale
IIllenium & Hayla [Nick Miller/Hayley Williams] [US/UK] In My Arms [I'll hold you in my arms] [►] Sale
JJazzy x CamrinWatsin [Yasmine Byrne/Cameron Watson] [IE] Touching Heaven [►] Sale Jazzy x Kilimanjaro [Josh Kilimanjaro] [IE/UK] No Bad Vibes (GEWAH Edit) [►] Sale JISOO [Kim Ji-soo] [KR] Earthquake (Sam Feldt Remix) [It hits me like an earthquake] [+Korean] Sale
KKaskade & Lipless [Ryan Raddon/Steven Mits] [US/AU] State of Mind [In a better state of mind] [►] Sale Kaskade & Punctual Featuring Poppy Baskcomb [US/UK] Heaven Knows [That I'll be there] [►] Sale Kideko & A-Trak [Ryan Hurley/Alain Macklovitch] [UK/CA] Loving You [It's your love, baby] [►] Sale Knock2 & Naliya [Richard Nakhonethap/Natalie Salomon] [US/CA] Shake!the!City! [►] Sale KSHMR & Izzy Bizu [Niles Hollowell-Dhar/Isobel Bizu Beardshaw] [US/UK] Diamond in the Rough [►] Sale
LLady Gaga [Stefani Germanotta] Abracadabra (Kastra Remix) [Death or love tonight] [►] Sale Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars [Peter Hernandez] Die With a Smile (DJ NEENO Remix) [I'd wanna be next to you] [+M] Sale Lavern Featuring Lilly Ahlberg [Laurens Elshof] [NL] Where Did You Go [I did look] [►] Sale Lavern & Sigala [Bruce Fielder] [NL/UK] Like Sunshine [I will always be there like sunshine] [M] [►] Sale Lisa Featuring Doja Cat & RAYE [Pranpriya Manobal] [TH] Born Again [To be born again] [►] Sale Loud Luxury [CA] Crash [Ooh, I want you so good] [►] Sale Lucas & Steve Featuring Jordan Shaw [Lucas de Wert & Steve Jansen] [NL] Heart First [M] [►] Sale
MMorgin Madison Take Me [Back to eternity] [►] Sale Major League DJz Featuring Jorja Smith [ZA] Come With Me [I need you on your own] [►] Sale Zack Martino, Jayem & Aviella [Justin Mondello/Aviella Winder] Afterlove [►] Sale Mau P [vs. Tame Impala] [Maurits Westveen] [NL] The Less I Know the Better [M] [►] Sale Tate McRae [CA] Sports Car (TELYKast Remix, Kue Remix) [You know what this is] Sale Meduza x Innellea & Genesi Featuring Nu-La [Michael Miethig] [IT/DE/IT] Edge of the World [►] Sale Austin Millz & Kah-Lo [Austin Miller/Faridah Seriki] [US/NG] Hot & Mysterious [►] Sale Mr. Belt & Wezol x Qobra x Alex Hosking [Bart Riem & Sam van Wees] [NL/IT/AU] Keep It Exciting [►] Sale MkX [Michael Kouroubacalis] Want U Bad (Dave Aude Remix) [Every time you talk like that] [M] [►] Sale
NVictoria Nadine & Kygo [Victoria Andersen/Kyrre Gorvell-Dahll] [NO] Can't Get Enough [I'm craving your love] [►] Sale Niiko x SWAE Featuring Jazara [Nikolaus Becker & Mark Manchester] Alarm [The alarms go] [►] Sale Nimino [vs. Rayana Jay] [Milo Evans] [UK] I Only Smoke When I Drink [►] Sale
OEly Oaks [Elias Grauss] [AT] Running Around [►] Sale Ofenbach [FR] Need You the Most [M] [►] Sale Ofenbach Featuring Justin Jesso [FR] Over You [I'm never getting over you] [M] [►] Sale
PParisi Featuring Clementine Douglas [IT] Rain [I can hear you in the rain] [►] Sale PLS&TY [Tommy Leas] Turning Tides [Doesn't really work that way] [►] Sale PLS&TY Featuring x.o.anne Leave the Light On [Back to you] [►] Sale
RMax Rae x Montell Jordan How We Do It (Until Dawn Remix) [This is how we do it] [+M] [►] Sale Rihanna [Robyn Rihanna Fenty] [BB] Friend of Mine [Feel like a friend of mine] [►] Sale Nicky Romero x Vikkstar x Alpharock x Oaks [Nick Rotteveel/Vikram Singh Barn/Jeffrey Lens/Winona Oak (Johanna Ekmark)] [NL/UK/NL/SE] Where Do I Go [►] Sale Rose & Bruno Mars [Roseanne Park/Peter Hernandez] [NZ/US] Apt. (Jeonghyeon Remix) [All you gotta do is just meet me at the] [+M] [►] Sale Rudimental x Khalid [Khalid Robinson] [UK/US] All I Know [Is when the night gets cold] [M] [►] Sale Rufus Du Sol [AU] Break My Love [M] [►] Sale Rufus Du Sol [AU] In the Moment (Adriatique Remix) [This moment is all that I need] [M] [►] Sale
SSadBois & UNDY [Andrea Obeid] Bloom [I'll shine my light for you] [►] Sale Will Sass Featuring Kamille Into the Blue [Run, run with you into the blue] [►] Sale Robin Schulz x CYRIL Featuring Sam Martin [vs. Fatboy Slim?] [Cyril Riley] [DE/AU] World Gone Wild [M] [►] Sale Robin Schulz x FAST BOY [DE] Million Good Reasons [But I never meant to start a fire] [M] [►] Sale Morgan Seatree x Florence + The Machine [UK] Say My Name [Never be afraid again] [►] Sale Ed Sheeran [UK] Azizam [M] [►] Sale Myles Smith [UK] Stargazing (Distant Matter & Laszewo Remix) [Take my heart, don't break it] [M] Sale Snow Strippers Under Your Spell [You keep me under your spell] [►] Sale Sub Focus & bbyclose [Nicolaas Douwma/Sarah Close] [UK] On & On [I can feel the rush] [►] Sale Sub Focus & Katy B [Katy Brien] [UK] Push the Tempo [►] Sale John Summit Featuring Cloves [John Schuster] Focus [Pull my love into focus] [►] Sale John Summit & Paige Cavell [Paige Cavell Williams] [US/UK] Tears [I follow the tears, tears, tears that cascade] [►] Sale Swedish House Mafia & Alicia Keys [Alicia Cook] [SE/US] Finally [I meet you] [►] Sale SZA [Solana Rowe] BMF [Young and fine and dark and handsome] [►] Sale
TTELYKast & Sam Gray [US/UK] Surrender Your Love [I'm not giving up] [M] [►] Sale TELYKast With Moa Lisa [Moa Lisa Hammar] [US/SE] Feel Again [I got that feeling again] [►] Sale Tiesto Featuring Oaks [Tijs Verwest] [NL] I Follow Rivers [►] Sale Tiesto, Odd Mob & Goodboys [Harry Hope] [NL/AU/UK] Won't Be Possible [M] [►] Sale Tiesto & Soaky Siren [Rosina Russell] [NL/BS] Tantalizing [I lose control] [►] Sale Tritonal Featuring Angel Taylor Watch Us Glow [►] Sale 22Bullets & Martin Jensen [Varun Sony] [TH/DK] Pharmacy [M] [►] Sale Twinsick Happy Now [Tell me are you happy now] [►] Sale Two Friends Featuring HRVY All for Me [Take me back to when you were all for me] [M] [►] Sale
VArmin van Buuren Featuring Louis III [NL] Part of Me [Come on and bring your heart to me] [M] [►] Sale Armin van Buuren With Alok, Norma Jean Martine & Lawrent [Alok Petrillo/Laurent Wilthien] [NL/BR/US/FR] Euphoria [Every time we touch] [►] Sale Armin van Buuren & Sam Gray [NL/UK] Dream a Little Dream [With me] [M] [►] Sale Sammy Virji x Issey Cross [Isabella Cross] [UK] Nostalgia [Take me back, rewind] [►] Sale
WFrank Walker & Alexander Stewart [CA] Crossfire [I still get caught in your crossfire] [M] [►] Sale Warren Featuring Lena Sue [IE] What U Gonna Do [To prove your love] [►] Sale
YLola Young [UK] Messy (Laszewo Edit, Tiesto Remix) Sale YouNotUs & Cheat Codes Featuring BARBZ [DE/US] Cinema [I wanna watch you, baby] [►] Sale
ZFaris Zahid [CH?] Outdated Love [M] [►] Sale Bonus Tracks
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Bonus Tracks 2025
Artist [Alternate Name] [Country] Title (Radio Mix) [Key Lyrics] [Vocal ID] [Play] Shop
AAfroSalto x Mednas [Mehdi Nassiri] [NL/MA] [B] All Good Things (Come to an End) [►] Sale Asdis [Asdís Vioarsdottir] [IS] [B] Touch Me [Let your hands do the talking] [►] Sale
BJoe Bermudez & Jenna Drey [B] Halley's Comet (Zillionaire's Remix Radio Edit) [►] Sale
CChloe Caillet & SG Lewis [vs. Aqua?] [Samuel George Lewis] [FR/UK] [A] B Somebody [Who loves me] [►] Sale Cash Cash Featuring KYLE [B] Honest [Let's be honest] [M] [►] Sale CMC$ Featuring Terror Jr [Yael Nahar] [NL] [B] Risk It All [►] Sale Cosmic Gate & James French [James Oliver] [DE/UK] [B] I'm on Fire [Fan my flames] [M] [►] Sale
DDabin x Nurko x Skylar Grey [Dabin Lee/Jack Leech/Holly Brook Hafermann] [CA/US] [B] I See You [It led me straight to you] [►] Sale Dombresky [Quentin Dombres] [FR] [B] Hi Life [You are here to discover the deepest truth about yourself] [►] Sale
EEDX [Maurizio Colella] [CH] [B] Desire [Something called desire it offers anything but help] [►] Sale
FFisher [vs. Exile?] [Paul Fisher] [AU] [B] Stay [With me, lay with me] [M?] [►] Sale
GFrankie Grande [Frank Grande Marchione] [B] Rhythm of Love [It's your rhythm of love] [M] [►] Sale Gravagerz x Kiki Wera [IT/AU] [B] Pool [You only wanna kiss by the pool] [►] Sale
HHogland & Paradigm [Linus Hoglund] [SE/DE] [A] Tell It to My Heart [Love, it don't come easy] [M] [►] Sale
JJADE [Jade Thirlwall] [UK] [B] Angel of My Dreams (The Blessed Madonna Remix, Jax Jones Y2J Remix) [►] Sale
KKouss Featuring Josh Nichols [B] The Moment [Now is the moment I've waited for] [M] [►] Sale Kygo & OneRepublic [Kyrre Gorvell-Dahll] [NO/US] [B] Chasing Paradise [M] [►] Sale
LChris Lake x Amber Mark [UK/US] [B] In My Head [You're dancing in my head] [►] Sale Jared Lee [B] Back 2 Life [You could bring me back to life] [M] [►] Sale Lena Leon [Yelena Leon] [B] Seconds to Sunrise [►] Sale LF System [UK] [B] Meet Me in the Middle [I'll make it simple] [►] Sale Jules Liesl [Jillian Liesl] [B] Cherry (Mousse T. Remix) [Imma teach you how/How to please me now] [►] Sale LUM!X [Luca Michlmayr] [AT] [A] Illusion [But this love is as real as it gets] [M] [►] Sale
MMorgin Madison & Hilyte [US/US-CA] [B] Carry On [For my heart to carry on] [►] Sale Maesic Featuring Bipolar Sunshine [Emeric Boxall] [FR] [B] Better [I can make you better] [M] [►] Sale Mau P [vs. Ini Kamoze] [Maurits Westveen] [NL] [B] Merther [Out in the street they call it murder] [M] [►] Sale
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PPAWSA & Adventures of Stevie V [David Esekhile] [UK] [B] Dirty Cash (Money Talks) [+M] [►] Sale David Puentez [Benjamin Beyer] [DE] [A] Burn [Pull me to the light] [►] Sale
RR3hab, Mufasa & Hypeman, RANI [vs. Bag Raiders?] [Fadil El Ghoul/Shannon Rani Hilversum] [NL/UK/NL] [B] Believe (Shooting Stars) [+M] [►] Sale Rezident & Von Boch Featuring Elissa Mielke [David Roif/Philip von Boch Scully] [DE/US] [A] Hold On [Oh, you need me] [►] Sale Chappell Roan [Kayleigh Amstutz] [A] Pink Pony Club [►] Sale
SWill Sass Featuring Kamille [B] Happiness [I just want happiness] [►] Sale Skrillex [Sonny Moore] [B] Voltage 2025 [M] Sale Oliver Smith & Tailor [Rob Taylor] [UK/ZA] [A] Rely on Me [M] [►] Sale The Solar Syndicate [A] Frankie [All I...] [►] Kia K4 spot [►] Sale Ian Storm x Garabal Featuring Barmuda [Laurens Lemmens/Sergio Garabal] [NL/ES] [A] Bad Dreams [Waiting on the other side] [M] [►] Sale
TTeddy Swims [Jaten Dimsdale] [B] Bad Dreams (Cosmic Dawn Remix Edit) [Waiting on the other side] [M] Sale Tiesto [Tijs Verwest] [NL] [A] Lethal Industry (Rose Ringed Remix) [I] Sale
VDimitri Vegas, Steve Aoki, Ann Lee & Sound of Legend [Dimitri Thivaios/Annerley Gordon] [BE/US/UK/FR] [B] 2 Times [Three times] [►] Sale Index Legend
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Index Legend
All tracks feature female vocals except where noted: M for male vocals, D for dub versions, and I for instrumentals. Instrumentals may contain some vocals and/or spoken words. Alternate name may also refer to an artist’s full name or birth name. An asterisk indicates retail CD or DVD single available (excluding imports). Radio mix is the most popular version played on radio, provided it’s different from the original or album mix. Note that some remixes may not be commercially available. Bonus tracks include regional hits as well as some of our recommendations. For the current year, you can see exactly how each song made the cut.
- [A] – Our pick
- [B] – At least 70 weekly spins
- [C] – Club top 10 and at least 50 weekly spins
Google Shame
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Welcome to the Google Star Chamber
Shame on Google and SCPP for lumping some pages from Dance Radio Post and Discogs (just to name two) with those file-sharing sites. The links on our Megamix pages are kosher unless they have a problem with Amazon.com and Google’s own YouTube. Organizations that represent rights holders need to use better software and a little human verification. Good intention is no excuse for sloppy work and false accusation. And gatekeepers like Google should know better. This search engine had issues between 2003 and 2007; it’s happening all over again (since the mid-2010s). If not for the efforts of Lumen (formerly Chilling Effects), we wouldn’t know the extent of Google’s star-chamber tactics.
#BadAutomation #NoDueDiligence #NoDueProcess #GoogleEpicFail
Here’s more evidence software automation with little to no human oversight is a recipe for disaster. After an investigation by The Times in 2017, major companies on both sides of the Atlantic decided to boycott Google for placing their banners alongside YouTube videos they find objectionable. Meanwhile, serious videos about sensitive subjects are deemed not advertiser-friendly by Google’s software. And during the 2016 election cycle, publishers of fake news claimed to have profited from the Facebook and Google ads displayed on their sites. Yes, programmatic advertising can be problematic. (Check out this “60 Minutes” report on the power of Google in 2018.)
Blind trust in automation is really an industry-wide issue. We wish The Times or some other news organization would start an investigation of Yelp. Most of the so-called suspect reviews look perfectly fine. Yelp’s rudimentary software generates so many false positives that most people who’ve ever posted reviews have some of them tagged. But they wouldn’t know it unless they go back and check each business page where they posted a review days or weeks later. That’s because Yelp’s software doesn’t do its thing immediately after a review is posted. Yelp should do what Amazon.com and other sites do with customer reviews: leave them alone.
E-mail systems also produce false positives in the spam folder. The whole industry should acknowledge there’s a problem and work on eliminating false positives. Using software to discern fake stuff is tricky business. One person’s propaganda is another’s truth. If Facebook is not careful with the detection of fake news, it will end up with a lot of false positives (think satirical sites such as The Onion) just like Yelp.
We’re not saying these companies shouldn’t use software to do part of the work. The Internet is vast; some automation is inevitable as a first pass. But before blacklisting a page or a review, they should exercise some due diligence to verify the results. And they must implement a one-step process for anyone to report false positives.
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