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Bozell: 'Zuckerberg Assured Me His Express Aim Is to Eliminate Only Patently False News Stories'
Cybercast News Service ^ | December 16, 2016 | 10:18 AM EST | Michael W. Chapman

Posted on 12/16/2016 8:41:22 AM PST by Olog-hai

In reaction to the news that Facebook is partnering with the Associated Press, ABC News, and Snopes, among other apparent “fact checkers” to tag and weed out “fake news” on the popular social site, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg assured him that “his express aim is to eliminate only patently false news stories from Facebook.”

“I have been in communication with Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook since he announced their new ‘fake news’ initiative,” said MRC President Bozell in a Dec. 16 statement. “I expressed grave concern with this decision and the liberal ‘fact-checking’ organizations Facebook has chosen.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abcnews; associatedpress; bozell; facebook; fakenews; realpropaganda; snopes; zuckerberg
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1 posted on 12/16/2016 8:41:22 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I find this media “story” to be Fake News.


2 posted on 12/16/2016 8:43:33 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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So like any story for example that questions climate change even tangentially kind of “fake”?


3 posted on 12/16/2016 8:44:11 AM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Olog-hai

Eliminate?

Sure didn’t take him long to move past “flag”


4 posted on 12/16/2016 8:44:24 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Olog-hai
"...Facebook is partnering with the Associated Press, ABC News, and Snopes..."

And there you have it. I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see it, but there it is. Snopes of all things. That tells you all you need to know.

5 posted on 12/16/2016 8:44:46 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Olog-hai

Well, I feel so much better now.


6 posted on 12/16/2016 8:45:19 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Paladin2

So Zuckerberg actually didn’t give Bozell false assurances?


7 posted on 12/16/2016 8:45:43 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: dsrtsage

If that was the case mr Bozzel how come there are no conservatives on this taskforce


8 posted on 12/16/2016 8:46:54 AM PST by Vlaxo
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To: Olog-hai

Not False News, just one of the many forms of Fake News. In this case Zuckerberger claiming to stomp out “Fake News”.


9 posted on 12/16/2016 8:48:22 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Olog-hai

Zuckerberg doesn’t deserve this much power. He just happened to steal a good idea

Free speech will not be stifled and the market is clamoring for a new “go-to” social media site

Most likely off-shore and away from the reach of the oligarchy


10 posted on 12/16/2016 8:48:27 AM PST by varyouga
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To: Olog-hai

Then the NY Times must be first on his list of banned websites.


11 posted on 12/16/2016 8:49:19 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: Olog-hai

I hope Brent is right. But of course these leftist “fact” checkers are going to brand anything with a conservative viewpoint as “patently false”.


12 posted on 12/16/2016 8:50:02 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Olog-hai
New Zuckerpedia entry:

Fake News: Patently Flase News Stories as well as stories that clearly violate the Politically Correct Terms and the Politically Correct Conditions of Facebook.

13 posted on 12/16/2016 8:50:03 AM PST by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
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To: Olog-hai

They are going after the Macedonians first. Legimate partisan news is okay for now.


14 posted on 12/16/2016 8:50:23 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: Olog-hai

Never trust a Secular Progressive Capo! They are nearly as bad as Muslims when it comes to lying.


15 posted on 12/16/2016 8:50:49 AM PST by vette6387
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To: Olog-hai

“I will accept in good faith his commitment to address our concerns on this matter,”

Sorry, Zuckerberg squandered any “good faith” he might have had long ago.


16 posted on 12/16/2016 8:51:06 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Olog-hai

Lies.


17 posted on 12/16/2016 8:51:30 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: varyouga
Free speech will not be stifled and the market is clamoring for a new “go-to” social media site Most likely off-shore and away from the reach of the oligarchy

Exactly. Young people left facebook when older people started using it. After a while of this insane move the only ones using facebook will be leftists.

18 posted on 12/16/2016 8:51:30 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Olog-hai

Information is power.


19 posted on 12/16/2016 8:52:42 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (Where's Hillary?)
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To: Olog-hai
Would they classify a story claiming that "the Obama presidency was scandal-free" as "patently false"?

Would they classify a story claiming "our government planned 9/11" as "patently false"?
20 posted on 12/16/2016 8:53:37 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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