Remember the hysteria following the news that the Russians had swung the 2016 election by placing ads on Facebook, like that meme of Hillary Clinton getting ready to box with Jesus Christ or those coloring pages of a very buff Bernie Sanders doing muscle poses in a Speedo?
Legislators like Sen. Dianne Feinstein warned Facebook and Twitter that they’d better do something about “misuse” of their social media platforms or the government would do it for them. And so Facebook has done us the great favor of popping up a “warning” when you’re about to read something from one of those fake news sites like Breitbart.
Sharyl Attkisson wonders if a few more news outlets could rate a similar warning.
I'm not trying to start trouble, but some criticisms represented as fact in this "warning" that appears on Facebook (such as stories that were misleading, wrong or conspiratorial) could arguably be claimed about many other news orgs– yet they don't say anything of the sort. pic.twitter.com/NqBWbcfoGn
— Sharyl Attkisson?️♂️ (@SharylAttkisson) November 24, 2018
The best part — the text for the warning comes from Wikipedia.
Using Wikipedia or Snopes to help "curate" our news for us is sort of like.. well… Nevermind. https://t.co/AM4VXUCPLh
— Sharyl Attkisson?️♂️ (@SharylAttkisson) November 24, 2018
But all of Facebook is using it as sourcing and references to curate your news for you. https://t.co/apWyUHPfDP
— Sharyl Attkisson?️♂️ (@SharylAttkisson) November 24, 2018
When Facebook provides "info" from Wikipedia on the news sources that appear on my feed, shouldn't it provide "info" on Wikipedia such as: pic.twitter.com/aaqU9i9aG7
— Sharyl Attkisson?️♂️ (@SharylAttkisson) November 24, 2018
We’re old enough to remember an intern from Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s office using Wikipedia to doxx Republican senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee as they questioned Brett Kavanaugh, posting their personal information such as home addresses and phone numbers.
I’m assuming on Huffpo’s it says “they’re called the Breitbart of the left”?
— S R (@srob2247) November 24, 2018
It would be difficult to argue that @msnbc isn’t far-left and the mirror of this warning befitting.
— 40th Street Black (@fortiethstreet) November 24, 2018
#Breitbart is not #FarRight. So, there’s that?
— MLBTrump*WWG1WGA?? (@enlightnup) November 24, 2018
“Journalists that are ideologically driven” can be used to describe 95% of journalists
— jeff (@jeffreybell1990) November 24, 2018
This is because it’s a conservative news outlet. Only “far right” outlets will get a warning like this, the far left ones are the mainstream media.
— Dave (@daveshingle) November 24, 2018
as an early contributor, I can say that this description is from a left wing bias.
It was a forum for free exchange of ideas with ZERO 'thought control'. Indeed, many from the left plied their trade as well. While nominally conservative, it was a free fire zone. Wiki is wrong.
— Trumpster (@Gettingtrump) November 24, 2018
Its only purpose is to "Alinsky" ideological opposition by such labelling. As Andrew Breitbart himself said, it is their Narrative which must be fought: "Feeling the thrill of sending a message to these people that we reject their worldview the way they reject ours".
— M Ryutin (@MRyutin1) November 24, 2018
The old standby of faux journslists; "Widely considered…." "Some say…." or "It has been said….." for baseless accusations.
— Kevin McIntyre ☘ (@IrishGuyKevin) November 24, 2018
"has been called". Slippery wording dodges direct challenge.
— davrola (@davrola) November 24, 2018
Cultural Marxism is winning the culture war in the media. Hope rests in reclaiming churches and primary education. A higher purpose than the State and critical thinking to quickly identify fallacy arguments. Today’s teens will define our future. Don’t ignore them.
— 5th Column Watch (@sigtruth) November 24, 2018
(An aside: Patent attorney Vanessa Otero’s famous Media Bias Chart lists Twitchy as “hyper-partisan right” and “nonsense damaging to public discourse” — she recently raised $32,000 to help her maintain her awesome chart. So there’s that, too — you’ve been warned. Why not slip her a few bucks for protecting you?)
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