Governments And Corporate Media Conspire With Facebook To Censor Anti-Establishment Speech
By Vin Armani
ActivistPost.com
DECEMBER 23, 2016
Governments around the world are putting pressure on Facebook to censor “fake news”. Meanwhile, the establishment media offers to help identify false stories. “If the Associated Press is the fact checkers, who fact checks the Associated Press?” Armani asks this and more in the video below.
Claire Bernish recently reported Germany To Fine Facebook $500K For Every “Fake News” Post They Don’t Delete:
Germany now says if Facebook refuses to deal with “fake news” in a timely manner, it will fine the social media platform €500,000 (around $525,000) for each false or hate speech item it fails to remove within 24 hours.
Thomas Oppermann, chairman of Germany’s Social Democratic Party, suggests a strict law with concurrent stiff penalty might be the best method of combating the plethora of “fake news” now apparently flooding the interwebs.
“Facebook did not avail itself of the opportunity to regulate the issue of complaint management itself,” Oppermann told Der Spiegel in an interview Friday. “Now market dominating platforms like Facebook will be legally required to build a legal protection office in Germany that is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.”
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