Parkland: Top Ten Reasons we Know it was a Staged Political Event
(1) It was staged in the immediate vicinity of Mar-a-Lago to as a challenge to President Trump:
Parkland: Top Ten Reasons we Know it was a Staged Political Event
(1) It was staged in the immediate vicinity of Mar-a-Lago to as a challenge to President Trump:
Trump and the Truth: A President Tests His Own Credibility
Since Mr. Trump became a presidential candidate, PolitiFact has evaluated more than 500 assertions and found 69 percent of them mostly false, false or “pants on fire” false. By comparison, it judged 26 percent of the statements by Mr. Obama that it evaluated as false and the same percentage for those by Hillary Clinton.
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Twitter: Designed for Interesting Messaging
Fake news is getting harder to control and social media networks makes it harder to weed out the truth from the lies. Engadget shares how, “Twitter’s Fake News Problem Is Getting Worse” and how tragedy exacerbates the problem. For example, when a crazed shooter opened fired at a high school in Parkland, Florida, social media, including Twitter, helped spread fake news. The fake news misidentified the gunman, the number of gunmen, how a comedian was one of the shooters when it was just a meme, and misidentified missing people.
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Google is filtering news for the wrong reason
Google is trying to minimize threats to its business, to avoid any kind of criticism that could lead to regulation
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Links to His Book & #GoogleGestapo References Below the Fold
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They ignore the biggest threat of all.
South by Southwest Festival Goes From Tech Back-Slapping to Brooding Introspection
Lizette Chapman for Bloomberg
Revelations around the use of Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and YouTube to spread misinformation, influence the U.S. presidential election in 2016 and recruit terrorists have prompted closer scrutiny of social networks and their responsibility to police content on their sites.