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In March, the United States Special Operations Command, the section of the Defense Department supervising the US Special Forces, held a conference on the theme of "Sovereignty in the Information Age." The conference brought together Special Forces officers with domestic police forces, including officials from the New York Police Department, and representatives from technology companies such as Microsoft.
This meeting of top military, police and corporate representatives went unreported and unpublicized at the time. However, the Atlantic Council recently published a 21-page document summarizing the orientation of the proceedings. It is authored by John T. Watts, a former Australian Army officer and consultant to the US Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security.
[...] The private sector, therefore, must do the dirty work of the government, because government propaganda is viewed with suspicion by the population. "Business and the private sector may not naturally understand the role they play in combating disinformation, but theirs is one of the most important.... In the West at least, they have been thrust into a central role due to the general public's increased trust in them as institutions."
But this is only the beginning. Online newspapers should "consider disabling commentary systems—the function of allowing the general public to leave comments beneath a particular media item," while social media companies should "use a grading system akin to that used to rate the cleanliness of restaurants" to rate their users' political statements.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/05/pers-o05.html
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday October 09 2018, @05:19PM (1 child)
Netflix recently cut the comments section for each movie. Now, you can only give a movie a thumbs up or a thumbs down. I'm sure that helps cut down on the cost of moderating the comments, but I can help feeling like that's not the right way to go.
Nowadays, the news is so biased, it's hardly worth listening to. It's best to just note major events, form your own opinion, and move on. Generally, they aren't giving you a lot of real information. Instead, they're mixing 90% opinion with 10% fact and as little of the latter as possible. Sure, doing real research is hard, but isn't that what a real journalist is supposed to do? Perhaps, they're trying to patch a leaky ship that's being bombarded by social media platforms like Facebook, but turning into Facebook won't save a news organization. It will just lose them the people who actually cared about getting real news.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @05:26PM
Thumbs up or Thumbs un-up.
It's double-plus ungood, comrade.