Clinton’s Salty ‘Fake News’ Tirade ‘Aimed at Censoring Alternative Media’
SputnikNews.com
11.12.2016
On Thursday, in a rare public appearance since her electoral defeat last month, Hillary Clinton called for public and corporate action against the “epidemic of fake news.” Speaking to Sputnik, independent journalist Gearoid O Colmain suggested that Clinton’s words were little more than an effort to silence internet-based alternative media.
In her first public speech since conceding the election, Clinton denounced “fake news,” stressing that it is a “danger that must be addressed and addressed quickly.”
“It’s imperative that leaders in both the private sector and the public sector step up to protect our democracy and innocent lives,” Clinton stressed, referring to an incident that took place last weekend after a man opened fire in a Washington, DC pizzeria after reading an internet story about an alleged child sex slavery ring known as Pizzagate.
Clinton praised government and business leaders for the steps that are already being taken, including legislation being worked on by the US Congress, and efforts by Silicon Valley “to grapple with the challenge and threat [posed by] fake news.”
Clinton’s address was met with heavy criticism by everyone from freedom of speech activists to independent journalists to ordinary internet users, who lashed out against Clinton and the mainstream media’s coverage of her speech.
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