Re:As Google Fights Fake News, Voices on the Margins Raise A...
by ZeroGravitas on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @07:45AM
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I replied to a comment that was attacking fact-checking of news by non-governmental organization as being a conspiracy to suppress right-wing views.
You said, 1984 was "written as a warning of this type of censorship".
If you didn't mean to defend the grand-parent post, then you're the one that's expressing yourself poorly.
What's Orwellian here is the number of people who believe things contrary to fact because politicians repeatedly and brazenly lie on those topics and when fact checked, they attack the whole edifice of Science, the free press, the CBO, what people have seen with their own eyes etc.
You said, 1984 was "written as a warning of this type of censorship".
If you didn't mean to defend the grand-parent post, then you're the one that's expressing yourself poorly.
What's Orwellian here is the number of people who believe things contrary to fact because politicians repeatedly and brazenly lie on those topics and when fact checked, they attack the whole edifice of Science, the free press, the CBO, what people have seen with their own eyes etc.