Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by xnx on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:09AM (#25714739)

One of Trump's greatest successes has been to co-opt the term away from it's first popularized meaning: fabricated articles created (e.g. by a teenager in Macedonia) for the primary purpose of capturing views and add clicks.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by refurb on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:59AM (#25715183)

Ignoring whether Trump was abusing the term "fake news" or calling out something no one has before, it's kind of amazing how that term has taken off.

I'm not in the US and people are incorporating that term in their everyday language.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by trident5000 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:36AM (#25714963)

Any institution small or large is capable of fake news or lying by omission. Many of the large institutions are at the will of their corporate sponsors or the political leaning of their consumers/subscribers. The bottom line is all that matters.

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