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on Saturday November 19 2016, @11:52PM
from the so-when-does-real-news-become-fake-news dept.
from the so-when-does-real-news-become-fake-news dept.
Earlier this week Google announced that its advertising tools will soon be closed to websites that promote fake news, a policy that could cut off revenue streams for publications that peddle hoaxes on platforms like Facebook.
The Verge reports:
The decision comes at a critical time for the tech industry, whose key players have come under fire for not taking neccesary steps to prevent fake news from proliferating across the web during the 2016 US election. It's thought that, given the viral aspects of fake news, social networks and search engines were gamed by partisan bad actors intending to influence the outcome of the race.
What constitutes 'fake' news?
Who decides what is 'fake'?
Who is a 'partisan bad actor'?
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It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @02:03AM
agreed, Alex Jones really does drag PJW down a lot, which is why I only follow him and not the whole of infowars.
the thing though that I really hate is how there is so much contempt for bipartisanship by the MSM, but I suppose that's mostly due to the cultural marxists that control it, along with the advertisers who fuel it. everything has to be "extreme" to generate any emotion now. hell I wouldn't be surprised if in the near future we're holding some battle-royale type thing to decide the winner of an election. though I suppose even that wouldn't be as bad as it is now, at least there could be some credibility and campaign funding wouldn't gain you any advantages.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @03:12AM
> cultural marxists
No wonder you guys are treated to so contemptuously
You are only reaping what you sow
Enjoy the taste of those tears while you can
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @09:20AM
there is no other word best suited to describe them.
(Score: 2) by SanityCheck on Sunday November 20 2016, @03:51PM
I have to agree with him thou, "cultural marxist" is actually very very fitting from what I been able to gather. It is insane the lengths to which the narrative has gone, and everything we see now is the society convulsing after realizing it swallowed this poison. Shit even I started thinking some social equality is good, and then the slippery slope started and now I'm on the total opposite. They scared the shit out of me and turned me into a meritocrat now that I see where the "cultural marxists" will take their arguments once they have their foot in the door.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @04:29AM
PJW? WTF PJW est? SJW en alia nomen? Cui est "Alex Jones"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @11:40AM
Bellatores Pajama.