Social media's war on "fake news" has some basis in reality, since there is such a thing as fake news, misinformation, disinformation or false information. But it's also being used to censor and remove real facts as well.
YouTube and Facebook are working on initiatives to display the "authoritative" news on their sites in order to defend the mainstream consensus narrative. They are relying on pseudo-"fact-checking" sites like Snopes, Politifact and Wikipedia to overshadow and overrule counter-narrative alternative media news stories from gaining popularity. Information that is counter to the mainstream narrative is considered false and "fake news" and dealt with as such by promoting the official "authoritative" mainstream narrative.
With the blind reliance on these half-assed "fact-checking" sites, informational content that contains actual facts can be targeted as "fake news" and silenced by being censored or flagged and removed from their sites. This is what recently happened to a Paul Joseph Watson article that was talking about a real U.N. paper from 2001.
Watson's article was called Revealed: UN Plan To Flood America With 600 Million Migrants, which might sound like a false claim. BUt he also provided a quote from the document itself, titled Replacement Migration: Is It a Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?
"It would be necessary to have 593 million immigrants from 1995 to 2050, an average of 10.8 million per year. By 2050, out of a United States total population of 1.1 billion, 775 million, or 73 per cent, would be post 1995 immigrants or their descendants."
How is that fake news, when it's a factual statement from the U.N. document itself? No one made that shit up.
Politfact said the document was "not meant to be recommendations in any way, but illustrations of hypothetical scenarios." Therefore, Watson was putting out fake news. Really? But the opening of the UN report says:
The new challenges of declining and ageing populations will require comprehensive reassessments of many established policies and programmes, including those relating to international migration.
Seems like they are writing this report in order to warn of required "comprehensive reassessments". It's not a hypothetical, but a desired outcome to correct this alleged problem they are talking about. The U.N. wants this to happen. It's a plant they want to have happen. Which is what Watson was talking about.
Facebook is blindly targeting factual informational content because they automatically take what a BS "fact-checking" site says is false information. It doesn't matter that it's real information about a U.N. document. The people at Politifact don't care if it's real, they don't want to accept it as real, so they declare it to be false information "fake news".
As a result of Politifact's denial of facts, Facebook's policy to "reduce the distribution of misleading content" means it will reduce the distribution of the "pages of websites that publish or share false news". Those who monetize their content can be denied that ability as a result, all because of a pseudo-"fact-checking" site denying facts. What an Orwellian move that just proves how much these authoritative "fact-checking" sites are not to be blindly trusted, or trusted at all.
Thank you for your time and attention. Peace.
References:
- The 'Fake News' Fallacy Used by the Media Monopoly
- Fake News Fail: Facebook Flags Accurate Infowars Story Citing UN Docs
- Revealed: UN Plan to Flood America With 600 Million Migrants
- Replacement Migration: Is It a Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?
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