Fake News Guy Robert Parry Wonders: What to Do About Fake News

[MineralMan]

https://consortiumnews.com/2016/11/18/what-to-do-about-fake-news/

Exclusive: A pushback is coming to the Internet’s success in giving the world access to diverse opinions and dissenting information. Politicians, mainstream media and technology giants are taking aim at what they call “fake news,” reports Robert Parry.

By Robert Parry

In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, a hot new issue – raised by President Obama in an international setting on Thursday and touted on The New York Times’ front page on Friday – is the problem of “fake news” being disseminated on the Internet.

Major Internet companies, such as Google and Facebook, are being urged to censor such articles and to punish alleged violators. Also, teams of supposedly “responsible” news providers and technology giants are being assembled to police this alleged problem and decide what is true and what is not.

But therein lies the more serious problem: who gets to decide what is real and what is not real? And – in an age when all sides propagate propaganda – when does conformity in support of a mainstream “truth” become censorship of reasonable skepticism?

The irony of a "journalist" who sold out almost completely to Putin complaining about the outing of fake news outlets on a fake news outlet, Consortium News, is stunning. I just had to share this example of rank hypocrisy.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. I'm sure Parry can offer some good MH17 not fake news for us . Nt

[FBaggins]

2. I'm with you on this one

Hilarious.

I'm beginning to doubt that Putin wanted Trump to win. I think he wanted turbulence here in the U.S. in general. He probably figured that there was no way that Trump could win, so he focused on damaging the next president. There may even be more-damaging material that was being held fire post-inauguration so that he could drive an impeachment process.

Not that he's upset at getting Trump... As now the turbulence won't need any outside help.