{"id":50665,"date":"2020-01-22T20:01:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T01:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50665"},"modified":"2020-01-22T20:01:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T01:01:51","slug":"on-the-70th-anniversary-of-orwells-death-the-danger-of-third-parties-curating-and-fact-checking-our-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50665","title":{"rendered":"On the 70th anniversary of Orwell\u2019s death: The danger of third parties \u201ccurating\u201d and \u201cfact checking\u201d our info"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sharylattkisson.com\/2020\/01\/on-the-70th-anniversary-of-orwells-death-the-danger-of-third-parties-curating-and-fact-checking-our-info\/\">On the 70th anniversary of Orwell\u2019s death: The danger of third parties \u201ccurating\u201d and \u201cfact checking\u201d our info<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sharylattkisson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-21-at-1.26.25-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9851\"\/><figcaption>Political writer George Orwell, who died Jan. 21, 1950<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a dangerous practice: Government, corporations, universities, news outlets and \u201cexperts\u201d curating our information so that we cannot access, see or believe that which they determine we should not access, see or believe.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If anyone had suggested to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/people\/george-orwell\">Orwell<\/a>, or the American founders, that we would invite this sort of manipulation and control of our information, they wouldn\u2019t have believed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea was first introduced on the national stage by President Obama in October of 2016 right before the presidential election. He&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/obamawhitehouse.archives.gov\/the-press-office\/2016\/10\/13\/remarks-president-opening-remarks-and-panel-discussion-white-house\">insisted<\/a>&nbsp;that somebody needed to step in and \u201ccurate\u201d our information in the \u201cWild, Wild West\u201d internet environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nobody had been clamoring for any such thing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the challenge for those who came up with this bright idea\u2013 in my opinion in an effort to control news and information\u2013 was to convince the public to accept something very un-American: their information being shaped and censored by others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-bYAQ-ZZtEU\">Watch Attkisson\u2019s Tedx talk: Astroturf and Manipulation of Media Messages<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This feat was accomplished in concert with the anti-fake news effort, started in September 2016 through a nonprofit called First Draft. (First Draft was funded by Google, owned by Alphabet, run by Eric Schmidt, a major Hillary Clinton funder and supporter.) The anti-fake news effort was also an effort by special interests to step in and control news and internet information.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a relatively short period of time, they had us.&nbsp;<em>Curate our information<\/em>, we cried.&nbsp;<em>Block \u201cuntrue\u201d news reports and blogs! Fact check political ads and certain politicians! Remove selected social media accounts!&nbsp;<\/em>We invited special interests and political players to control our information under the guise of knowing what\u2019s best for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 70th anniversary of Orwell\u2019s death: The danger of third parties \u201ccurating\u201d and \u201cfact checking\u201d our info It is a dangerous practice: Government, corporations, universities, news outlets and \u201cexperts\u201d curating our information so that we cannot access, see or believe that which they determine we should not access, see or believe.&nbsp; If anyone had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28854,14851,2779,1211,378,1339,927,725],"class_list":["post-50665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-curating","tag-fact-checking","tag-fake-news","tag-george-orwell","tag-google","tag-internet","tag-manipulation","tag-sharyl-attkisson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50667,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50665\/revisions\/50667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}