Self-proclaimed ‘Hack’ Journalist Calls on Social Media to Censor ‘fake news’
Hillary supporters, still reeling over devastating loss, call for censorship of independent media
Adan Salazar
Prison Planet.com
December 6, 2016
Self-proclaimed “hack” and Politico writer Glenn Thrush participated in an MSNBC discussion where the topic of conversation centered around censoring sites like Infowars.com on social media.
Commenting that social media companies should be responsible for restricting “potentially inflammatory incitements of violence,” Thrush questioned why those companies’ CEOs haven’t already developed a strategy to ban “false and hateful content”:
“You’ve got Reddit, you’ve got Facebook, and you have Twitter. Explain to me why, is there a constitutional right to put potentially inflammatory incitements of violence on these sites? Why aren’t Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, and Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook coming up with a more serious strategy for either labeling or banning groups that knowingly push false and hateful contents on their sites?”
Naturally, Alex Jones and Infowars.com were specifically referenced in the conversation.
“The challenge to try to keep up with the pace of this information right now, it’s worth noting that for Reddit’s part, they banned the pizza gate discussion going forward,” host Peter Alexander said.
“I’m curious for your take on this. Donald Trump – obviously Inforwars, we’re familiar with that sort of popular website spewing off a lot of conspiracy theories as well. Even Alex Jones, the founder of Infowars, you know, spoke proudly about how, ‘I said something, and Donald Trump spouted it just a couple days later.’”
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