CNN Demands Facebook Ban Infowars — Who’s Next?
by Kristinn Taylor
TheGatewayPundit.com
July 12, 2018
CNN reporter Oliver Darcy, at a Facebook event with reporters on fake news held in New York on Wednesday, repeatedly demanded that Facebook explain why Infowars has not been banned from the site.
CNN’s push to ban Infowars was promoted by CNN and executives and reporters online.
Infowars owner Alex Jones interviewed presidential candidate Donald Trump and Internet news pioneer Matt Drudge, in 2015.
CNN tried in February to get YouTube to ban Infowars.
CNN published Darcy’s report on his effort get Infowars banned by Facebook with the headline, Facebook touts fight on fake news, but struggles to explain why InfoWars isn’t banned.
Excerpt:
“When asked by this reporter how the company could claim it was serious about tackling the problem of misinformation online while simultaneously allowing InfoWars to maintain a page with nearly one million followers on its website, Hegeman said that the company does not “take down false news.”
“I guess just for being false that doesn’t violate the community standards,” Hegeman said, explaining that InfoWars has “not violated something that would result in them being taken down.”
Hegeman added, “I think part of the fundamental thing here is that we created Facebook to be a place where different people can have a voice. And different publishers have very different points of view.”
…Pressed for more answers on its position on InfoWars, Su said at the event that Facebook has thus far chosen to focus on tackling posts on its platform that can be proven beyond a doubt to be demonstrably false.
“There’s a ton of stuff — conspiracy theories, misleading claims, cherry picking — that we know can be really problematic and it bugs me too,” Su said. “But we need to figure out a way to really define that in a clear way, and then figure out what our policy and our product positions are about that.”
Emailed for any additional comment after the event, Facebook spokeswoman Lauren Svensso said questions about InfoWars hit “on a very real tension” at the social media company.
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