FACEBOOK ALREADY BLOCKING LINKS
TO "FAKE NEWS"
Despite Washington Post admitting its "fake news" exposé was based on shoddy research
BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Facebook is already blocking links to so-called “fake news” stories, despite the Washington Post being forced to admit that its own definitive article on “fake news” was based on shoddy research.
A Twitter user revealed how he tried to post an Alex Jones Channel video about ‘PizzaGate’ on Facebook but was blocked from doing so because Facebook characterized the YouTube link as “unsafe”.
This
suggests that more than just blocking alleged “fake news” websites,
Facebook is censoring certain topics from being posted altogether.
@MarkDice @nytimes Facebook's clamping down on Fake News for you New York Times! Tried to post #pizzagate hot tub link today but it's no-go. pic.twitter.com/DYsRMk0LyX— Jock Doubleday (@jockdoubleday) December 8, 2016
The social network giant also appears keen to comply with a European Union demand that all “fake news,” which was listed on a par with hate speech and jihadist propaganda, be censored within 24 hours.
As we reported yesterday,
after pressure from academics, Google is also de-listing information
pertaining to criticism of Islam and information about black people
being over-represented in crime figures (which is an objective fact).
The
notion of social media websites blocking content they arbitrarily
decide to be “fake news” is chilling, especially given that the
Washington Post has now been forced to admit that its vaunted “fake news” exposé was itself fake after massive blow back.
“A
lengthy editor’s note appeared on top of the original article in which
the editor not only distances the WaPo from the “experts” quoted in the
original article whose “work” served as the basis for the entire article
(and which became the most read WaPo story the day it was published)
but also admits the Post could not “vouch for the validity of
PropOrNot’s finding regarding any individual media outlet”, in effect
admitting the entire story may have been, drumroll “fake news” and
conceding the Bezos-owned publication may have engaged in defamation by
smearing numerous websites – Zero Hedge included – with patently false
and unsubstantiated allegations,” reports Zero Hedge.
Given that the first list of “fake news” websites was also completely debunked
as the bias-driven musings of a far-left social justice warrior, what
credibility does the mainstream media have left in lecturing everyone
else as to what constitutes “fake news”?
Get the REAL list of fake news websites right here.
_______________________________________________________Dear mainstream media: Calling everyone apart from yourself "fake news" is kind of a hint that you just want to silence your competition.— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) December 8, 2016
Breaking! Federal Govt. Says Fake News is Espionage; Russians & Alternative Media Being Blamed
Published on Dec 8, 2016
Congress
just passed a bill called the Intelligence Authorization Act to combat
what US intelligence sources are calling fake news and covert
broadcasting by the Russian government and alternative media websites
within the U.S.
