{"id":23878,"date":"2017-05-05T15:23:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T20:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23878"},"modified":"2017-05-05T15:24:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T20:24:49","slug":"nyt-cheers-the-rise-of-censorship-algorithms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23878","title":{"rendered":"NYT Cheers the Rise of Censorship Algorithms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NYT Cheers the Rise of Censorship Algorithms<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Exclusive: <\/strong>The New York Times is cheering on the Orwellian future for Western \u201cdemocracy\u201d in which algorithms quickly hunt down and eliminate information that the Times and other mainstream outlets don\u2019t like, reports Robert Parry.<\/p>\n

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Just days after sporting First Amendment pins at the White House Correspondents Dinner \u2013 to\u00a0celebrate freedom of the press<\/a> \u2013 the mainstream U.S. media is back to celebrating a very different idea: how to use algorithms to purge the Internet of what is deemed \u201cfake news,\u201d i.e. what the mainstream judges to be \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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New York Times building in New York City. (Photo from Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The New York Times, one of the top promoters of this new Orwellian model for censorship, devoted two-thirds of a page in its Tuesday editions to a laudatory piece<\/a> about high-tech entrepreneurs refining artificial intelligence that can hunt down and eradicate supposedly \u201cfake news.\u201d<\/p>\n

To justify this draconian strategy, the Times cited only a \u201cfake news\u201d report claiming that the French establishment\u2019s preferred presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron had received funding from Saudi Arabia<\/a>, a bogus story published by a Web site that mimicked the appearance of the newspaper Le Soir and was traced back to a Delaware phone number.<\/p>\n

Yet, while such intentionally fabricated articles as well as baseless conspiracy theories are a bane of the Internet \u2013 and do deserve hearty condemnation \u2013 the Times gives no thought to the potential downside of having a select group of mainstream journalistic entities feeding their judgment about what is true and what is not into some algorithms that would then scrub the Internet of contrary items.<\/p>\n

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