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Facebook strengthen control of “conspiracy theory” sites: It is an admitted fact that the Internet has gone beyond mass media.
There is a move in which the ruling elite
try to remove inconvenient information as fake news. They have a sense of
crisis because they failed to manipulate information with the help of mass
media and Trump achieved victory thanks to information on the Internet. Facebook
founder Zuckerberg, as is the case with fraud sites, has announced that the
company will penalize fake news sites. The problem is who will determine which
information is true or false. Facebook
says that they rely on “trusted third parties.” Form their viewpoint, such
information that the 9/11 was a staged event and Michel Obama is actually a man
belongs to the “conspiracy theory” and is fake news.
In a word, this is an attempt for the one
percent ruling elite to crack down on all news disadvantageous to them on the
grounds of fake news. A list of sites said to offer fake news include many
trusted sites on the Internet. Russian media are undoubtedly included in such
list.
According to the article, “Facebook is ‘looking
into disrupting the economics’ of fake news.” I think they are not looking into
fake news but they are “requesting to do so.” In short, they want to prevent
the news inconvenient to them from spreading by strengthening legal action
against copyright infringement, strictly controlling reprint without permission,
and imposing a severe fine. Information regarding this field will be posted
some day in the future one after another.
December
2, 2016
Masatoshi
Takeshita
Note:
Shanti-phula has indicated some parts of
the following text in black boldface type or in red letters.
Excerpt from a Japanese article: News on the Other Side of the World – November 30, 2016 –
Source:
Mark
Zuckerberg says site has been ‘working on problem for a long time’ and
‘penalizes’ misinformation on news feeds to reduce chances it will spread
November 19 [Guardian]
Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg announced new steps
to counter fake news on the platform on Saturday *(19).
<snip>
“Similar to
clickbait, spam and scams, we penalize
[misinformation] in News Feed so it’s much less likely
to spread,” he wrote.
<snip>
“We do not want to be arbiters of truth
ourselves, but instead rely on our
community and trusted third parties.”
<snip>
Zuckerberg also said
Facebook would experiment with warning labels on stories, and try to better
screen the quality of links in the “related articles” section, where the site
has linked to false conspiracy theories about the September 11 attacks and
Michelle Obama, among others.
He also said the
company was “looking into disrupting the economics” of fake news, conceding that misinformation was driven, at least in
part, by people profiting off of Facebook’s ad
mechanics.
<snip>
On Thursday *(17), Obama told reporters
that the discrediting of news organizations and spread of misinformation
threatened institutions.
<snip>
Note:
Numbers in parenthesis above are added to
make clear the dates.
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English translation of a comment of the
above site administrator
It seems that announcement
of the direction of information control on Facebook is largely due to the fact
that the media supporting Clinton lost information warfare on the Internet and Mr. Trump has been
elected as the next president.
According to some mass media, Trump opponents claim that fake information (which was a
factor of Trump’s victory) should be cracked down on, which led to
condemning the sites which provide fake information.
<snip>
However, election results clearly show that
the information from some mass media in the U.S., which
cried out saying “Clinton enjoys predominance in popularity” to the last, was
actually “fake information.” It seems that their definition of “fake
information” is different from my definition.
Personally, I think that it is apparently more
malicious “fake information” not to report specific information intentionally
and in that sense, the mass media which never intentionally release
information, though making some mistakes, is not so malicious.
<snip>
Some “sites providing fake information”
according to them, is listed here:
<snip>
GlobalResearch.ca
Seeing the list, I thought that this is not a list of “media which try to give
people wrong impression” but rather correctly a list of
sites disadvantageous to the elite.
<snip>
I think that every individual differently
judges on which information is true or false. I
wonder how an organization to determine the authenticity of information can
judge which information is right or wrong.
<snip>
I hear that Russian media is still “propaganda”
to some conservatives and Russian media which gain
great popularity also in Europe are likely to be criticized more than ever.
<snip>
As I stated above, it
is predicted that information on the Facebook will be severely controlled.
Furthermore, skillfully manipulated fake information which makes us
uncomfortable runs wild (both in mass media and on the Internet). Please be
careful.
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