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Bozell: 'Zuckerberg Assured Me His Express Aim Is to Eliminate Only Patently False News Stories'
Cybercast News Service ^ | December 16, 2016 | 10:18 AM EST | Michael W. Chapman

Posted on 12/16/2016 8:41:22 AM PST by Olog-hai

In reaction to the news that Facebook is partnering with the Associated Press, ABC News, and Snopes, among other apparent “fact checkers” to tag and weed out “fake news” on the popular social site, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg assured him that “his express aim is to eliminate only patently false news stories from Facebook.”

“I have been in communication with Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook since he announced their new ‘fake news’ initiative,” said MRC President Bozell in a Dec. 16 statement. “I expressed grave concern with this decision and the liberal ‘fact-checking’ organizations Facebook has chosen.” …

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abcnews; associatedpress; bozell; facebook; fakenews; realpropaganda; snopes; zuckerberg
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To: varyouga
"Zuckerberg doesn’t deserve this much power. He just happened to steal a good idea."

He just happened to steal a BAD idea that became extremely popular.
21 posted on 12/16/2016 8:55:45 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Olog-hai

“his express aim is to eliminate only patently false news...”

Yeah,,,thats how all censorship starts...

Facebook can do what it wants...its dead to me anyway...but don’t pretend you will get a pass, Bozell...or anyone else from any rightwing leaning site.

This is just a grab for your free speech...


22 posted on 12/16/2016 8:58:36 AM PST by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: Paladin2

Thanks for clarifying. You’re absolutely right, of course. All purveyors of false news are going to steal the phrase “fake news” to make their lies seem like truth, but the truth will persist in spite of Farcebook and already does so.


23 posted on 12/16/2016 8:59:16 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Well if Mark Zuckerberg said it to Brent Bozell then it MUST be true...
24 posted on 12/16/2016 9:01:07 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: varyouga

Yes, the silver lining is that Zuckerman is leaving a wide opening to competition that does not censor their content.


25 posted on 12/16/2016 9:05:55 AM PST by joshua c (Cut the cord! Don't pay for the rope they hang you with.)
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To: Olog-hai

I have only seen one fake news story (except of course all the stories in the MSM every day), the one about Michael Brown, FBI Agent, Murder/Suicide/Fire in Walkerville, MD, reported in the Denver Guardian, reported about 11/4 or 11/5. Turned out to be a fake paper, only had a few web pages, and no person of that name lived in the town, town spelled wrong, no fire, etc. That was true Fake News.


26 posted on 12/16/2016 9:10:39 AM PST by Old_Grouch (69 and AARP-free. Monthly FR contributor.)
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To: Olog-hai

Dear Mr. Bozell: Please tell us you are not that stupid as to believe Zuckerberg.


27 posted on 12/16/2016 9:23:41 AM PST by thoughtomator (Purple: the color of sedition)
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To: Steve_Seattle

No and yes respectively.

Just determine what the truth is, and the opposite of that will be the official “truth”.


28 posted on 12/16/2016 9:24:36 AM PST by thoughtomator (Purple: the color of sedition)
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To: Olog-hai

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Fuckerburg is fake from top to bottom.
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29 posted on 12/16/2016 9:31:32 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Olog-hai

Zuckerberg has turned complete IDIOT!


30 posted on 12/16/2016 9:32:20 AM PST by Renegade
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To: Olog-hai

People have the right to decide for themselves is news is fake or true.

There needs to be another vehicle to replace FACEBOOK.


31 posted on 12/16/2016 9:33:47 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: rlmorel

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Correct!

You can’t get any faker than snopes.


32 posted on 12/16/2016 9:35:42 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Olog-hai

To the extent that this is real I’m fine with it. Most of my FB friends are on the left and there really is a lot of patently false bs that gets trafficked arouns on both sides, and I get sick of seeing it on my feed.


33 posted on 12/16/2016 9:37:33 AM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: Olog-hai

Sez Soro’s buttyboy.


34 posted on 12/16/2016 9:41:15 AM PST by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost, like tears in rain.)
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To: Olog-hai

All of the “fact-checkers” are decidedly left wing. This will morph into blatant censorship of conservative speech in record time.


35 posted on 12/16/2016 9:47:19 AM PST by KyCats
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To: Olog-hai

I thought Bozell had been around for awhile; but according to this article, and the P.T. Barnum maxim about suckers, it would appear that Bozell was born a minute ago.


36 posted on 12/16/2016 10:32:33 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: Olog-hai

The amount of news articles being flagged as false is going to be epic.


37 posted on 12/16/2016 10:39:42 AM PST by Rebelbase (ABC/NBC/CBS/MSNBC/PBS/CNN/FOX are THE LEGACY MEDIA)
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To: Olog-hai

Zuckerberg stole the Facebook idea. He sells everyone’s information. He works with the democrats to undermine our country and did so to Libya and Egypt. Many have died.

Sure you can trust a snake.


38 posted on 12/16/2016 10:55:05 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

He is also complicit in the genocide of Europe.


39 posted on 12/16/2016 11:02:01 AM PST by The Toll
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To: Olog-hai

I’m not a lawyer, and I assume Zuckerberg pays the best, still this seems dangerous undertaking.There are legal consequences-even for a private entity.

“Prominent literary figure H. L. Mencken was arrested in Boston in 1926, after purposefully selling a banned issue of his magazine, The American Mercury. Though his case was dismissed by a local judge, and he later won a lawsuit against the Watch and Ward Society for illegal restraint of trade, the effort did little to affect censorship in Boston. “
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banned_in_Boston
“... won a lawsuit against the Watch and Ward Society for illegal restraint of trade”


40 posted on 12/16/2016 11:11:32 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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