Posted on 08/20/2018 8:24:37 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Today, we are announcing the Mozilla Information Trust Initiative (MITI)—a comprehensive effort to keep the Internet credible and healthy. Mozilla is developing products, research, and communities to battle information pollution and so-called ‘fake news’ online. And we’re seeking partners and allies to help us do so.
Here’s why.
Imagine this: Two news articles are shared simultaneously online.
The first is a deeply reported and thoroughly fact checked story from a credible news-gathering organization. Perhaps Le Monde, the Wall Street Journal, or Süddeutsche Zeitung.
The second is a false or misleading story. But the article is designed to mimic content from a credible newsroom, from its headline to its dissemination.
How do the two articles fare?
The first article—designed to inform—receives limited attention. The second article—designed for virality—accumulates shares. It exploits cognitive bias, belief echos, and algorithmic filter bubbles. It percolates across the Internet, spreading misinformation.
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They’ve already explained their algorithm: if it comes from CNN or other mainstream media, it’s legit. If it comes from anyone who goes against the prevailing narrative of the mainstream media, it’s fake news. Sick of these leftists censorship scum.
Let them know about it...
https://qsurvey.mozilla.com/s3/FirefoxInput/
They have already been lying and covering for years about how they share data and information with the Ford Foundation and others, and now they are going to get into the censorship business?
Absolutely WRONG and totally against their own advertised message for years now...
Were do we go from here? Chrome is doing data mining uploads to Google, MS is self evident, Even Brave as good as it sounds has some unsavory personnel connections including Bilderbergers and is probably also being deceptive about data mining.
Ministry of Truthiness
An absolutely great idea that is well overdue... Someone got to these guys and making them flip their policies no matter what they say... Wish I was better at that stuff or I would build one and give it to everyone I could...
could this benefit FreeRepublic?
From link above:
Reward Your Favorite Publishers
Earn rewards and give back to your favorite publishers.
Support your favorite sites with micropayments. Brave features blockchain-based tokens which can be used to reward content creators.
I stopped reading the referenced Mozilla.org article at the indicated point.
Wow, thank you. Switching now.
I use Firefox and Gmail (Windows 10). Anyone know what Oops, error 72130 is all about? It keeps ticking down and causes delay after delay. I’ve tried to search for an answer and there is none.
Is it a Firefox issue or the two of them, Firefox and Gmail, playing together in their attempt to mess with whomever they want?
If anyone knows how to stop the Error Code 72130, please let me know.
Currently testing this browser that looks very promising and will update how it does. It is called Vivaldi and was created by the original CEO of the Opera browser.
From what I am reading it takes the best elements of Chrome, Opera and Firefox with a few other GREAT handy features of their own. It is what Chrome, Opera and Firefox used to be... YOURS, not theirs.
So far I LIKE it, but more testing needs to be done before I can fully recommend it. Give me a few days...
I would be curious what the FR raw server logs show and list my current user browser access to be using this Vivaldi?
Just installed it. Thanks.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The first step to checking news integrity is for every citizen to take the initiative to make sure that all official domestic actions of the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification feds that are reported in the news are reasonably justifiable under Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
This is actually easier than it sounds since Congress’s Section 8-limited powers can easily fit on two pages with white space left over. Most citizens should have Congress’s Section 8-limited powers memorized in a relatively short time.
Consider that where domestic policy is concerned, citizens can bet that if a federal domestic program or policy is not reasonably related to the US Mail Service (1.8.7), then the program is unconstitutional and probably be right most of the time.
In other words, most domestic policy laws and actions of today's unconstitutionally big federal government are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated state revenues, such revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.
In fact, note the following clarifications of the fed’s constitutionally limited powers, including limited power to appropriate taxes, by previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices and a constitutional lawmaker.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
The remedy for unconstitutionally big federal government …
Patriots need to finish the job that they started when they elected Trump president.
More specifically, patriots now need to be making sure that there are plenty of state sovereignty-respecting, Trump-supporting patriot candidates on the 2018 primary ballots, and pink-slip career lawmakers by sending patriot candidate lawmakers to DC on election day.
As I dig through the settings I like how many personal tweaks there really are.:)
Had to go to themes right away and change that brown though... lol
Did you see the “Notes” feature yet? Fantastic idea! About to go test it.
Next I am going to go look at plugin downloads for any ad blockers available for it...
If you would like to collaborate and share experiences with this mutual testing please feel free to PM me. :)
Et tu, Mozilla?
They are clearly angling to get on the Silicon Valley news censorship bandwagon.
And you somehow don’t think conservatives will be targeted?
I did too... Any time someone even hints at relying on third party “stewardship” to “adjust” my content I am done and gone...
Man this thing is FAST. I have Linux so I downloaded the linux version. This is faster than Firefox...
“And you somehow don’t think conservatives will be targeted?”
not by the browser itself, no. that would be the kiss of death for ANY brower to censor the web ... maybe an optional “snowflake” addon or some such, but not the base browser itself ... firefox is already losing out big time because the jerks at mozilla refuse to listen to their users ... many metrics show FF usage currently below 10% and sadly heading towards irrelevance anyway, so builtin censorship that couldn’t be disabled would completely finish off FF once and for all ... with IE dying and Edge totally stillborn, we may end up with only a single browser, namely google’s chrome, and a browser monopoly like that would be EXTREMELY bad news ...
But that is exactly what they have stated they are going to do: label and limit news they consider more fake than news they consider to have authority.
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