FACEBOOK EMPOWERS FAR LEFT GROUP TO BURY "FAKE NEWS"
Snopes political "fact checker" is a mouthpiece for Hillary Clinton & the Democrats
BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Facebook has announced it will
empower Snopes, an organization with a clear left-wing bias, to bury
so-called “fake news” on its news feed, a move that clearly opens the
door for the outright censorship of conservative content and opinion.
“To
combat fake news, Facebook has partnered with a shortlist of media
organizations, including Snopes and ABC News, that are part of an
international fact-checking network lead by Poynter, a nonprofit school
for journalism located in St. Petersburg, Florida,” reports Business Insider.
This
network will identify stories it deems to be “fake news” and then flag
the URL, ensuring the story is buried in users’ news feeds and seen by
significantly less people.
One of the organizations on the list
tasked with burying “fake news” is Snopes, which represents a clear
conflict of interest given that Snopes is clearly not impartial.
As the Daily Caller reported,
Kim Lacapria, Snopes’ main political “fact checker,” describes herself
as “openly left-leaning” and a liberal. She has previously equated Tea
Party conservatives with jihadists
Lacapria
“regularly plays defense for her fellow liberals,” according to Peter
Hasson, and has betrayed her partisan bias on numerous occasions by
defending Hillary Clinton and claiming that Orlando nightclub terrorist
Omar Mateen wasn’t a Democrat when he was actually a registered
Democrat.
Lacapria even denied that
Facebook’s burying of trending news topics was an issue after Facebook
employees admitted it was happening and Facebook subsequently vowed to
change the policy.
Does this sound
like someone who is impartial? Or does it sound like someone who, given
the power to do so, will exercise bias by burying conservative opinion
as “fake news” even when such content is perfectly legitimate?
Snopes
itself is run by a left-wing couple based out of California. These are
the people who will be deciding what’s “fake news” and what isn’t.
Snopes is run by a couple of far-left liberals in California.These are the people who will be deciding what's "fake news".
Impartial? pic.twitter.com/dzdF41WLjk
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) December 15, 2016
The
list also includes the Washington Post Fact Checker, an inclusion that
will also raise concerns given that only last week the Post had to admit that
it couldn’t “vouch for the validity” of a Russian propaganda blacklist
that a story published by the newspaper was entirely based on.
The Post was subsequently savaged by Glenn Greenwald for promoting a “McCarthyite blacklist”.
Another
name on the list of organizations that will police “fake news” for
Facebook is ABC News, an outlet that still employs Brian Williams even
after he spread the fake news that he was under RPG fire while
helicoptering in Iraq.
Facebook has basically empowered a bunch of highly partisan left-wing mainstream media outlets to bury “fake news”.
Given that the mainstream media is distrusted by around two thirds of Americans, an image blackened further by Wikileaks revelations about innumerable journalists being in bed with the Clinton campaign,
how can an institution with such low levels of trust be handed the
power to flag and bury so-called “fake news” without abusing it?
