The The New York Times Advocates Censorship Of Fake News
In its lead editorial
on Sunday, The New York Times decried what it deemed “The Digital Virus
Called Fake News” and called for Internet censorship to counter this
alleged problem, taking particular aim at Facebook founder Mark
Zuckerberg for letting “liars and con artists hijack his platform.”
As this mainstream campaign against “fake news” quickly has gained
momentum in the past week, two false items get cited repeatedly, a claim
that Pope Francis endorsed Donald Trump and an assertion that Trump was
prevailing in the popular vote over Hillary Clinton. I could add
another election-related falsehood, a hoax spread by Trump supporters
that liberal documentarian Michael Moore was endorsing Trump when he
actually was backing Clinton.
But I also know that Clinton supporters were privately pushing some
salacious and unsubstantiated charges about Trump’s sex life, and
Clinton personally charged that Trump was under the control of Russian
President Vladimir Putin although there was no evidence presented to
support that McCarthyistic accusation.
Jared Rodriguez (Credit: Truthout/flickr/cc)
