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Microsoft forms coalition to censor “disinformation” online
reclaimthenet.org ^ | February 22, 2021 |  Rick Findlay

Posted on 02/22/2021 6:06:33 PM PST by lowbridge

Together with a few other tech and media corporations, Microsoft has formed a coalition focused on fighting “disinformation” and fake news. The other founding members of the coalition are Truepic, Intel, BBC, Adobe, and Arm.

Disinformation and fake news have become prevalent buzzwords to create a justification to censor in this digital age.  It’s now very easy for people to formulate and spread falsehoods, according to the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity.

“There’s a critical need to address widespread deception in online content — now supercharged by advances in AI and graphics and diffused rapidly via the internet. Our imperative as researchers and technologists is to create and refine technical and sociotechnical approaches to this grand challenge of our time. We’re excited about methods for certifying the origin and provenance of online content. It’s an honor to work alongside Adobe, BBC and other C2PA members to take this critical work to the next step,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post announcing the coalition.

According to Microsoft, the C2PA will “develop content provenance specifications for common asset types and formats to enable publishers, creators and consumers to trace the origin and evolution of a piece of media, including images, videos, audio and documents.”

Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates has been a big supporter of modern moves to censor more on social media.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigtech; freespeech; internet; lol; microsoft; narrativeenforcement; technotyranny
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1 posted on 02/22/2021 6:06:33 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge
'1984' WAS NOT A TRAINING MANUAL!
2 posted on 02/22/2021 6:07:52 PM PST by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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To: lowbridge

They constantly misuse the word “misinformation”. But they don’t really care because it isn’t about information at all, but rather what Orwell would call a “thoughtcrime”.


3 posted on 02/22/2021 6:11:13 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: lowbridge
Image result for Chernobyl meme
4 posted on 02/22/2021 6:11:52 PM PST by KC_Lion
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To: Lazamataz

Heh, one must pass a 1984 test before even being considered for Google/Facebook, and the lowest of them all, Twitter.


5 posted on 02/22/2021 6:11:58 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: monkeyshine

This is an attack on Duck Duck Go.


6 posted on 02/22/2021 6:12:20 PM PST by dalight
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To: lowbridge

“Disinformation” is any information that undermines the official narrative.


7 posted on 02/22/2021 6:14:05 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The FBI used to go after communists. Now it is run by communists. The American Stasi.)
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To: lowbridge

This has nothing to do with censorship.

This initiative is to provide publishers with the means to ensure their product is traceable and any alteration can be detected.


8 posted on 02/22/2021 6:14:32 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: lowbridge
Who the hell made Microsoft and its cronies arbiters of "disinformation?"
9 posted on 02/22/2021 6:16:18 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Lazamataz

bttt


10 posted on 02/22/2021 6:16:55 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: lowbridge

Techno totalitarianism.

Microsoft is a little late to the table.

But it’s easy because all these companies developed it for China over the last couple decades.


11 posted on 02/22/2021 6:20:17 PM PST by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: lowbridge

Libtard socialist orwellian memory hole coalition


12 posted on 02/22/2021 6:20:28 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BenLurkin

hilarious the Beeb is in on it.

straight out censorship.

only FakeNewsMSM allowed.

Orwellian.


13 posted on 02/22/2021 6:21:29 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: lowbridge

Truth and conservative opinion are each disinformation. Progressive opinion is legitimate information. Got it?


14 posted on 02/22/2021 6:21:54 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (RISE UP O MEN OF GOD. BE DONE WITH LESSER THINGS.)
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To: lowbridge

Dissenters now == fake news

These people have no authority to determine fake news or disinformation

They are not the arbiters of truth


15 posted on 02/22/2021 6:21:58 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Mariner

“This initiative is to provide publishers with the means to ensure their product is traceable and any alteration can be detected.”

Provide the quotes or documentation for this. The quotes in this excerpt sure did not say that.


16 posted on 02/22/2021 6:22:42 PM PST by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Lazamataz

For the Right, you are right.

That doesn’t address the Left, who are all in.

If you look at the large areas of the planet that were in
the book, you see similarities there also.

Europe, the Americas, others too I believe.

It’s uncanny how that book is becoming reality.

Course no one has read it from this generation.


17 posted on 02/22/2021 6:22:49 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: lowbridge

Communist Thought Police Have Joined The Communist Purge & Nothing Is Being Done About Any Of It!

18 posted on 02/22/2021 6:26:19 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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To: Da Coyote

For Twitter, “failing” a drug test is passing it.
Microdose acid, then ban conservatives.
Go home and boot a little heroin.
Wake up with an eight ball, repeat.


19 posted on 02/22/2021 6:29:47 PM PST by EEGator
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To: lowbridge

This is nothing new.
Oligarchs used to have a “company paper” in their realms.

It said what the local oligarch wanted said, and nothing else.


20 posted on 02/22/2021 6:33:01 PM PST by mrsmith (US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
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