Posted on 11/21/2016 9:02:22 AM PST by John Semmens
Acknowledging that "our knee-jerk notion that freedom of speech should not be stifled may have blinded us to our responsibility to prevent the promulgation of 'fake news,'" Google's chief executive Sundar Pichai said and promised "to do a better job of weeding out erroneous and misleading posts in the future."
Pichai was especially hard on himself "for letting Hillary down. The more established media arbiters at CNN, NBC, CBS, etc. held as firm as they could to protect their viewers from being exposed to bogus news like the Wikileaks documents. But those of us in the Internet zone allowed our users to publish them. That illegally obtained documents would be permitted to poison voters' opinion of Secretary Clinton's honesty and suitability was a travesty. This never would have happened in the days when all the news was filtered through iconic reporters like Cronkite and Brokaw."
The Google executive admitted to uncertainty about "how to fight against ideological pollution," but assured that "we will do whatever it takes to clean things up. However, since we can't guarantee that every fake news story can be effectively blocked ahead of time it would be helpful if penalties could be imposed on those who slip past our safeguards."
Meanwhile, the New York Times—a leading purveyor of fake news—desperately begged readers to stop canceling their subscriptions and promised to cease fabricating the news in the future. Odds-makers are doubtful this strategy will work. "Only a fool would bet on a liar to tell the truth if given a second chance," said one anonymous source.
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=234787.0
The ‘Onion’ has fooled many so-called ‘reputable’ newspapers into printing phony and fake stories and several other pranksters have been doing the same thing for years... Let’s face it... If it looks like a skunk and smells like a skunk, then it’s probably a skunk. If people are too stupid to figure out the difference, that’s their problem and if the NY Times or Washington Post gets fooled... That’s their problem. Google and Facebook determining what’s real and what isn’t... That’s everybody’s problem.
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