Posted on 03/04/2020 8:56:01 AM PST by rktman
The New York Times sees YouTube purges as a start, but still not good enough.
“YouTube’s efforts to curb conspiracy theories pose a major test of Silicon Valley’s ability to combat misinformation,” The Times wrote in its March 2 coverage. It cited the findings from a University of California Berkeley study which concluded YouTube spreads fewer conspiracy theories than before, but still has a long way to go.
The Times’ coverage observed that “other falsehoods continued to flourish in YouTube’s recommendations, like claims that aliens created the pyramids, that the government is hiding secret technologies and that climate change is a lie.” Apparently, being skeptical about climate change is the same as believing in alien conspiracy theories if you’re The Times.
Other conspiracy theories the study cited as harmful included believing that “the media are acting against the interests of the United States” or how “1.5 million people gathered on a Facebook group pledging to run onto the military facility Area 51 in a quest to ‘see them aliens’, forcing the U.S. Air Force to threaten them with the use of force.”
The study alleged that a Fox News clip “The truth about global warming,” was recommended 15,240 times, which The Times says “illustrates YouTube’s challenge in fighting misinformation.”
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The NY Times is against free speech, big surprise.......
“Too much free speech goin’ on heyah!” - NYT
By Election Day, all content creators who openly support President Trump will likely be banned from YouTube. They are about to tighten the clamps to maximum strength.
From the people who spent 3 years promoting the Russian Conspiracy. Look in the mirror!
Because those who dont trust the lefty clinate kooks are no different than people who beleive that aliens built the pyramids.
Clumsy, NYT, clumsy.
LOL, linking UFO’s and climate change skepticism....bravo NYT...bravo...
Hitler would be so damn proud of this propaganda!
Liberals are so dumb they don’t realize “curbing” or shutting them down only makes them more believed.
Or maybe they do know it and like the loonies to think about all this nonsense so they won’t think about how crazy the libs are.
NYT is not in the news business any more. They are in the selling advertising business.
I tried to find the clip of Bloomberg telling a Mexican-American reporter that “Tejas is Spanish for Texas” on you tube yesterday... Was NO WHERE to be found.
I looked on DuckDuckGo and it had five listing on the first page.
Google is ALREADY censoring, HARD to help the Democrats.
Next thing you know, they’ll call to ban the National Enquirer and other checkout tabloids.
Sasquatch hardest hit.
And they will regret that decision because the Trump supporters will get creative set up pro-Trump video sites.
The Times doesn’t want any rebuttal of their misinformation and lies.
Climate Change Skepticism. How is that a conspiracy? It is just good common sense!
Not very common any more.
I found a few clips and articles about the ‘Tejas’ incident all over the 1st page on Google. Just searched for “Bloomberg Tejas is Spanish for Texas”
A little history......"The Quaternary Glaciation / Quaternary Ice Age started about 2.58 million years ago at the beginning of the Quaternary Period when the spread of ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere began. ... The earth is currently in an interglacial, and the last glacial period ended about 10,000 years ago.
...the earth is currently in the last glacial period....we have earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, floods, weather in general...always changing.
At one time the powers to be thought the world as round was fake when everyone knew it was flat......
So does that mean that they want to shut down The History Channel as well?
Such rubbish -- historically, concern about human activity ruining the planet is practically diagnostic of the nuttery of people who turn their purported alien abduction into an alternative lifestyle. Yeah, the ETs traveled at least 6 light years and stuck insruments up your hoo-haw out of concern of Earthly atmospheric pollution, morons. It is of the NY Slimes the society needs to rid itself.
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