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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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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday November 20 2016, @06:11AM
Political correctness is not a bad thing as it was originally intended, which is to prevent the use of phrases like "Chinese fire-drill."
The problem with the progressives and PC is what is the problem with is with damn-near every movement which goes to shit -- being co-opted by extremists who thrive on division by exacerbating non-issues and tearing at the scabs which are there.
Before it was merely annoying. Now, huge interests which reach far beyond any one nation are stoking discord in America, attempting a color revolution. Modern PC is not about saving feelings from being hurt, rather, it is a means to stifle debate and shout down or otherwise intimidate reasonable and alternate points of view with hyperbolic comparisons. It is an indirect means of censorship though compulsory self-censorship, and, more disturbingly, has advanced into violence against those with alternate viewpoints.
The good news is that these "movements" are planned by those who are out of touch with reality, and so cannot predict accurately if their movements will succeed. Additionally, since the movements are hypocritical and illogical (racism is the most evil thing in the world, but racism against White people is good) they will have the effect of pushing the moderates away from them.
The bad news is that the movements are well-entrenched in academia and the media and the globalists are doubling-down in their efforts of censorship and intimidation rather than accept defeat. What you experienced during the election was not even close to their ultimate strength or final form -- which means that those in favor of liberty and free speech are potentially facing a larger battle.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @07:32AM
I think it is actually the start of the end.
It's much like when a protest starts and people gather only to realize they aren't the only ones pissed off; Trump's election is the start of dismantling the excesses of the left, and if they're not careful, being obliterated from political life for a decade or more.
Google can afford to be partisan now, but 8 years from now? Time will tell.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday November 20 2016, @07:50AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @08:00AM
This isn't about Republicans per se, but the strident PC aspects of the left.
The Republicans can lose everything tomorrow and it won't matter to the people who are sick to death of the left. They know now they have the political clout to even get Trump elected, and that is the death knell of PC culture.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday November 20 2016, @04:04PM
The Republicans can lose everything tomorrow and it won't matter to the people who are sick to death of the left. They know now they have the political clout to even get Trump elected, and that is the death knell of PC culture.
Well, the other side might not go gently into that dear night. And they have a stronghold in academia which probably isn't going away any decade soon.