<![CDATA[Alternet’s search traffic down 71 % . Consortium News down 72 %, Global Research and Truthdig have seen declines. Situation appears to be growing worse.]]>The reductions coincided with the introduction of algorithms imposed by Google to fight „fake news.“ Google said the algorithms are designed to elevate „more authoritative content“ and marginalize „blatantly misleading, low quality, offensive or downright false information.“ It soon became apparent, however, that in the name of combating „fake news,“ Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are censoring left-wing, progressive and antiwar sites.
–Chris Hedges, columnist, war reporter, activist, truthdig, Thought Police for the 21st Century
Note: For example Consortium News has a LEAST BIAS rating from Media Bias/Fact Check. noting that their Factual Reporting is HIGH.
We believe that a key part of combating extremism is preventing recruitment by disrupting the underlying ideologies that drive people to commit acts of violence. That’s why we support a variety of counterspeech efforts.
–Monika Bickert, head of global policy management at Facebook
Note: Let’s get this straight, Facebook removes anti-war sites „by disrupting underlying ideologies that drive people to commit acts of violence.“ Nice.
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