Post by robeiae on Dec 20, 2016 8:00:55 GMT -5
Interesting piece (which is building off Hemmingway's): thefederalist.com/2016/12/19/fake-news-legacy-media-shaking-facebook/
You know, I think he's right on this. That's exactly what will happen. More of this:
But more interesting to me is this idea:
You know, that's all a bit furtive for my tastes, yet the initial point isn't wrong. Fake news only became a "thing" after Trump (we may have to institute a new timeline: BT and AT).
But the rest, well that's not only collusion, but it's also predicting the future. I think it's a little much. But still interesting.
Taken at face value, this “fake news” fix is useless. The same people who flock to read fake news out of a desire to defy the despised Mainstream Media will now go ahead and click on stories flagged as “disputed” out of an urge to defy Facebook and Factcheck.org.
You know, I think he's right on this. That's exactly what will happen. More of this:
Yet for readers of those stories, gaining the official disapproval of Facebook is going to be like being “banned in Boston.” For the right audience, it’s a selling point: “Read the news Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t want you to hear!”
But more interesting to me is this idea:
So from the very beginning, this push to suppress “fake news” is motivated by a desire to suppress undesirable political outcomes.
The decision to defer to the supposed authority of mainstream media “fact checkers” indicates an even wider agenda. The old mainstream “legacy media” is trying to use the hysteria over fake news as an opportunity to reconstitute its old role as the gatekeeper that controlled what news you saw, heard, and read—and collected a lucrative toll along the way.
The decision to defer to the supposed authority of mainstream media “fact checkers” indicates an even wider agenda. The old mainstream “legacy media” is trying to use the hysteria over fake news as an opportunity to reconstitute its old role as the gatekeeper that controlled what news you saw, heard, and read—and collected a lucrative toll along the way.
You know, that's all a bit furtive for my tastes, yet the initial point isn't wrong. Fake news only became a "thing" after Trump (we may have to institute a new timeline: BT and AT).
But the rest, well that's not only collusion, but it's also predicting the future. I think it's a little much. But still interesting.