Facebook to censor your news
Fakestream media is pushing, along with Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, a story line that you and I must be protected from “fake news” for our own safety. Sounds like the liberal cartel wants to control the news like it wants to control your guns. This is all about power.
The Fakestream media got the 2016 Presidential election, and the Trump win, wrong in so many ways that it is scrambling to keep the truth from those who seek it. We now learn that the neo-Fakestream media, specifically Facebook, has joined in.
Katrina Trinko in her column titled “Facebook’s Reliance on Liberal Fact-Checkers Means Your News Is About to Be Censored” writes:
Facebook doesn’t think you know what’s “fake news” and what’s not.
In an announcement Thursday, the social media giant said it was going to crack down on fake news through a variety of ways, including letting users report what they deem to be fake news.t one item on Facebook’s list of methods to crack down was particularly concerning:
We’ve started a program to work with third-party fact-checking organizations that are signatories of Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Code of Principles. We’ll use the reports from our community, along with other signals, to send stories to these organizations. If the fact-checking organizations identify a story as fake, it will get flagged as disputed and there will be a link to the corresponding article explaining why.
When you look at the signatories on the Poynter list, you’ll find seven from the United States: ABC News, The Washington Post, Snopes, Associated Press, FactCheck.org, Climate Feedback, and Politifact.
Of course nothing can go wrong with this, can it?
Jessica Guynn from USA Today in May, 2016 reported:
… According to tech news outlet Gizmodo, a former Facebook news curator says popular articles from politically conservative outlets on conservative subjects were deliberately left off of the “trending news” sidebar. Among the allegedly verboten topics: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Fox News contributor Steven Crowder.
“I’d come on shift and I’d discover that CPAC [Conservative Political Action Conference] or Mitt Romney or Glenn Beck or popular conservative topics wouldn’t be trending because either the curator didn’t recognize the news topic or it was like they had a bias against Ted Cruz,” the former news curator told Gizmodo.
Facebook denied the report, saying it has “rigorous guidelines” to ensure political neutrality in the distribution of news to its 1.6 billion users around the globe.
The question is who is checking the fact checker? Who is checking Facebook? Will Facebook turn into Fakebook?
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