Posted on 05/20/2017 8:09:02 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Following yesterday's exploration of the #BrockGate documents and our look at Media Matters' "Trump War Room", new findings indicate that Media Matters has access to the raw data of numerous social media platforms, plus the power to influence their understanding on what is and isn't "fake news."
The following is an excerpt from page 10 of the #BrockGate document:
"Media Matters has already secured access to raw data from Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites. We have also put in place the technology necessary to automatically mine white nationalist message boards and alt-right communities for our archive.
We will now develop technologies and processes to systematically monitor and analyze this unfiltered data."
Media Matters goes on to describe how they found a way to manipulate these social media platforms into thinking that they need their help. In fact, the following excerpt from the #BrockGate document speaks to this concern with precision:
“Out lets that push fake news are completely dependent on Facebook to spread their lies, and ad networks like Google to fund them.
Media Matters has unique insight to help fix the problems in this part of the media landscape.
After Facebook responded to our campaign by acknowledging the problem of fake news and agreeing to do something about it, we began a dialogue. It became clear form these conversations that Facebook needed our help in fully understanding the problem and identifying concrete solutions. Further, it also became clear that we had information and insight that they didn’t have that was helpful in educating them on the full scope of the problem. For example, Media Matters had a detailed map of the constellation of right-wing Facebook pages that had been the biggest purveyors of fake news – as well as insight into the food chain of fake news and how it was moving through the Facebook ecosystem.
Similarly, after Google revised their terms of service in order to prohibit so-called fake news sites from using their advertising network, it was Media Matters that had the information necessary to identify 40 of the worst fake news sites to which this policy applied.”
The following is a brief of summary of the findings in the document:
In the document, the group claims that they will push the Russia narrative forward, they assert that they will steal the best talent from the other left-wing outlets and consolidate them into Shareblue (they will convince "top editorial and writing talent [to] leave competitors to join Shareblue"), they propose a paid "Twitter-like" social network for the "opposition" to collude, they discuss their "Antidote to Breitbart" and their goal of controlling platforms like Google and Facebook, and they also mention a "Trump War Room" and their goal of keeping President Trump "unpopular" and how they are actively trying to portray President Trump as a "weak, think-skinned [sic] 'loser' vulnerable to goading". In all, this is a comprehensive three-year game plan that the left hopes to implement to great effect in their effort to win votes in 2018 and take the White House in 2020.
For more information on the "Trump War Room":
They send their bots and shills to the conservative sites and vlogs in order to downvote, post defamatory comments or dox the content provider.
FB/Twitter are not mandatory, but if you join them, they demand the right to dictate what you say. They try to destroy anyone who disagrees.
How powerful is that? These people are bullies.
Anyone can _say_ anything. There isn’t an app to see into people’s minds and hearts or to determine the quality of their soul. Yet.
There are services that will erase you from the internet.
Trust but verify....
‘There are services that will erase you from the internet.’
I wonder about that when my private search engine, Ixquick, started using Google to perform its searches.
I used facebook for a few days and then removed the damned thing. Called my sister and chewed her out for showing photos of her then young children. My old girlfriends are all grannies now and I have never felt so old. Lot of memories though.
I am happy to kick in a few bucks from my massive disability check, I’d just waste it on food anyway.
Worldwide censorship.
Agreed, it should be a matter of choice. In general, I think it is. Anyone can read Google/Apple/MS privacy policies. Most don't bother.
A very cursory search turned up ways to do it yourself or to confuse accounts that won’t delete and a complete paid service (Albine) that is about $130/year and will check every few months to keep you private. I imagine there are other paid services. Depends on how much time you have.
StartPage also is “enhanced by Google”, but doesn’t archive your searches.
I do use Google for short translations. It’s just faster, as the translate boxes simply appear at the top of the search.
Spokeo and the other sites that show location and relatives are the ones I’d eliminate first. Most people curious about someone aren’t so curious they’ll pay for extended search.
AdBlockPlus and the non-archived searches mean I don’t even see many ads when AdBlock is disabled, as some sites now require.
Media Matters IS fake news, they selectively redacted quotes by conservatives for years to spin something they said as being the opposite of a point. Taking things out of context.
Libtard despots and propagandists.
Thanks! I will check them out. Glad I asked, there is always someone smarter than me on FR.
“...that appear as posts from...”
See: Daily Mail: Barack Obama has 19.5M Fake Twitter Followers [Analysis from 2013]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3553932/posts
Excerpt: Of the president’s 36.9 million Twitter followers, an astonishing 53 per cent – or 19.5 million – are fake accounts
Twitter has been a scam from day one.
Thanks!!
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