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Facebook’s 'anti-Fake News' Plan Looks Like Effort to Curb Alternative Media

18-12-2016 < Red Ice Creations 72 147 words
 
Facebook’s 'anti-Fake News' Plan Looks Like Effort to Curb Alternative Media There are serious concerns over a social media giant's plans to debunk spurious news stories. And many are puzzled about the real agenda at play. You don’t need to worship at the altar of George Orwell to see where this is going. Under tremendous assault from the American establishment media over the proliferation of what they define as ’fake news’ on the platform, internet behemoth Facebook has finally caved in and agreed to regulate content. While, in principle, the concept sounds relatively noble, the manner in which it's proposed to implement it merits many questions. Among them are the continuing dangers of American domination of the world wide web and the liberal bias of that country’s popular press. But most worrying is the uncharted territory we are entering. Because there has never…
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