Posted on 01/22/2017 10:22:19 PM PST by Olog-hai
A Swedish fake fact-checking page reported on by Britain’s Guardian newspaper has been pulled from Facebook after a string of critical articles.
The Mediekollen page, which purported to be a fact-checking website but instead itself pushed propaganda and fake news, was removed from Facebook on Friday afternoon after Viralgranskaren, a fact-checking site run by Sweden’s Metro newspaper, contacted Facebook to complain and wrote an article on the site.
“We noticed that after we wrote the article, they wrote an article saying our article was fake,” Viralgranskaren’s Hugo Ewald told The Local. “I then posted some comments under that article, and five minutes later it was taken down.” …
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Outrageous.
By mid-summer, I expect dozens of hoax attempts each week to draw newspapers and news media folks into a fake story. It’ll become a trend for a long while.
The purge is beginning, Indeed.
And Obama gave control of the internet to info control freaks. Great, now how do we turn that back?
I hate everything Obama ever did to us and I hope he’s made to pay for it some day.
Facebook in December announced that it would start fact-checking stories flagged as fake by users, naming five fact-checking organisations -- ABC News, AP, FactCheck.org, Politifact and Snopes -- as the partners to whom it would send the stories out for checking.
And there you go, a case for an anti-trust prosecution challenging Facebook (without any commenting on any actual merit in such an action, demonstration of actual 'harm,' etc.)
Any any truth-seeker with experience shouldn't need detailed explanation as to the agenda and actual record demonstrated time and again by the groups listed.
Without the ability to define "truth," to start, its highly presumptuous of them to assume these groups have any standard beyond fashion law.
It's really no more than another way for liberals to say "shut up" whenever they are confronted with reality.
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