Posted on 01/23/2022 9:22:39 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Five-time Emmy award-winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson said she has seen an increased effort to manipulate the public to appreciate censorship and disapprove of journalism. One of the strategies that has been employed is the use of third-party fact-checkers, she said.
“Nearly every mode of information has been co-opted, if it can be co-opted by some group, [and] fact-checkers are no different,” Attkisson told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders.”
“Either they’ve been co-opted, in many instances, or created for the purpose of distributing narratives and propaganda,” said Attkisson. “This is all part of a very well-funded, well-organized landscape that dictates and slants the information they want us to have.”
Attkisson said she first started to notice news being controlled in the early 2000s when the media company she was working for was actively trying to suppress certain stories.
“The pushback came to be more about keeping a story from airing or keeping a study from being reported on the news, not just giving the other side, not just making sure it was accurately reported,” she said of pharmaceutical company stories she was covering at the time.
In 2016 Attkisson heard former President Barack Obama say news needed to be curated, after which mainstream media outlets started to consistently use the term fake news to describe mostly conservative news stories that they deemed untrue.
“And I remember thinking that was such a strange thing to say, because there was no big movement among the public, that people needed to have their information curated, that someone needed to step in and tell us what to think, curate what was online. But … after that, if you look at the media, day after day, there were headlines about fake news and curation of what should and shouldn’t be reported.”
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Fact Checker job description: “Ensure the truth never sees the light of day.”
Yes - whenever I see or hear the words “fact check”, I know that I can immediately stop reading or listening right there.
If you believe these factcheckers, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
Every “fact checker” does nothing but provide a left-wing opinion about something.
Yup.
Fact checkers employed by the Ministry of Propaganda is still just propaganda.
So according to her, what exactly is the touch stone to test the truth?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchstone_%28assaying_tool%29
What do we use to test the truth?
What should we use to test the truth.
What should we use to test the truth.
There's really no substitute for your own independent experienced brain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchstone_%28assaying_tool%29
What do we use to test the truth?
What should we use to test the truth.
IT'S NOT THEIR JOB TO "TEST THE TRUTH!!!"
That's what the First Amendment is all about!!!
If they want to “test the truth” they are legally a publisher and can be sued for content.
If they don’t “test the truth” they are legally a platform and can’t be sued for content.
But they want it both ways.
There’s really no substitute for your own independent experienced brain.
But I understand your point, always test.
The truth is a rare commodity.
define truth, define rare, define commodity.
Fact Check is a tell. Letting me know someone is ready to lye to me. e.g. Biden won the 2020 election. YouTube told me so.
Thanks anyway Sheryl.
“We Report,
YOU DECIDE.”
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Where have I heard that?
I am not the least bit confused by fact checkers. I pay them no mind whatsoever.
My ex-best friend chose a left-wing fact check opinion about the Georgia election theft over our friendship.
Here is the narrative. We can't report the other side of the argument because following our policy of no providing disinformation we fact checked it and discovered that it has been debunked.
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