Posted on 08/03/2021 12:31:28 PM PDT by Red Badger
Two of the largest news publications in the country, the Associated Press (AP) and Reuters, have teamed up with one of the leading tech giants, Twitter, in a new partnership to crack down on “misinformation” and “elevate credible information,” the Daily Caller reports.
Twitter confirmed the new alliance in a blog post, saying that the two publications would be responsible for identifying “misleading” information, and to help Twitter expand its efforts to mediate trending stories, “especially where facts are in dispute.” The websites will also help Twitter staff whenever they lack “sufficient expertise or access to a high enough volume of reputable reporting.”
“This program is just part of our ongoing efforts to help people understand the conversation happening on our service,” the Twitter blog post continued. “People experience a range of public conversations on Twitter every day, and we’re committed to continuing our work to elevate credible information and context.”
Tom Januszewski, a spokesman for the Associated Press, said that the AP aims “to expand the reach of factual journalism.” Reuters’ Hazel Baker made the questionable claim that “trust, accuracy, and impartiality are at the heart of what Reuters does every day,” and that “those values drive our commitment to stopping the spread of misinformation.”
Twitter, along with other Big Tech platforms, have significantly increased their efforts to crack down on political dissent in recent months, most notably by permanently banning President Donald Trump in January, while he was still the sitting President of the United States. Other platforms such as YouTube and Facebook have either outright banned, or attached “warning labels” to, content that raises doubts about the 2020 presidential election, the efficiency of coronavirus restrictions, and other controversial subjects.
Well, let’s see... there’s “Disinformation”, the deliberate alteration or falsification of reports and news. There is “Misinformation”, the mistaken misreporting of erroneous or false information, and then finally there is “Schiffinformation”, the wholesale manufacture of fraudulent information in the deliberate and malicious intent to incriminate person or persons that are political enemies. The MSM is guilty of all three. The only thing they have not credibly done, is to report news in an unbiased and complete manner. That hasn’t happened since Tim Russert died.
They started with the excuse of “public health” and went after people who questioned the official party line. I knew it wouldn’t stay with the “public health” lie. The purpose was always to identify dissenters and to punish them.
Look at the use of technology to arrest people who were at the Capitol on Jan 6 and who didn’t break in.
Twitter is one of the biggest scams out there. It doesn’t have millions of individual users; it has millions of leftist bots screaming at other leftist bots.
Ministry of Truth.
or.......
That hasn’t happened since Tim Russert was murdered...................
I am, too. :-)
Titter managed to deep-six all the blistering responses to Valerie Jarret’s plea for people to donate to the Obama library. Now it’s all happy birthday wishes and tweets attacking Republicans. They are hiding the anger people have at the rich Democrats and their rich friends.
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