{"id":55772,"date":"2020-11-27T07:14:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T12:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55772"},"modified":"2020-11-27T07:14:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T12:14:41","slug":"demanding-silicon-valley-suppress-hyper-partisan-sites-in-favor-of-mainstream-news-the-nyt-is-a-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55772","title":{"rendered":"Demanding Silicon Valley Suppress \u201cHyper-Partisan Sites\u201d in Favor of \u201cMainstream News\u201d (The NYT) is a Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Demanding Silicon Valley Suppress \u201cHyper-Partisan Sites\u201d in Favor of \u201cMainstream News\u201d (The NYT) is a Fraud<\/a><\/h3>\n

The corporate news organizations masquerading as reliable and non-partisan are, in fact, as hyper-partisan as any sites on the internet, and spread as much misinformation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The most prolific activism<\/strong>\u00a0demanding more Silicon Valley censorship is found in the nation\u2019s largest news outlets: the media reporters of\u00a0CNN<\/em>,\u00a0the \u201cdisinformation\u201d unit of\u00a0<\/a>NBC News<\/a><\/em>, and especially the tech reporters of\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>. That is where the most aggressive and sustained pro-internet-censorship campaigns are waged.<\/p>\n

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Due in part to a self-interested desire to re-establish their monopoly on discourse by crushing any independent or dissenting voices, and in part by a censorious and arrogant mindset which convinces them that only those of their worldview and pedigree have a right to be heard, they largely devote themselves to complaining that Facebook, Google and Twitter are not suppressing enough speech. It is hall-monitor tattletale whining masquerading as journalism: petulantly complaining that tech platforms are permitting speech that, in their view, ought instead be silenced.<\/p>\n

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In Tuesday\u2019s\u00a0New York Times<\/em>, three of those censorious tech reporters \u2014 Kevin Roose, Mike Isaac, and Sheera Frenkel \u2014\u00a0published an article<\/a>\u00a0on Facebook\u2019s post-election deliberations over how to alter its algorithms to prevent the spread of what they deem \u201cmisinformation\u201d regarding the election. The most consequential change they implemented,\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0<\/em>explained, was one in which \u201chyperpartisan pages\u201d are repressed in favor of promoting \u201ca spike in visibility for big, mainstream publishers like CNN, The New York Times and NPR\u201d \u2014 a change the Paper of Record heralded as having fostered \u201ca calmer, less divisive Facebook.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Demanding Silicon Valley Suppress \u201cHyper-Partisan Sites\u201d in Favor of \u201cMainstream News\u201d (The NYT) is a Fraud The corporate news organizations masquerading as reliable and non-partisan are, in fact, as hyper-partisan as any sites on the internet, and spread as much misinformation. The most prolific activism\u00a0demanding more Silicon Valley censorship is found in the nation\u2019s largest […]<\/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":[9336,30503,120,145,1493,5437,1339,9419,496,1426,14545,3209,1921,655,9252],"class_list":["post-55772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-big-tech","tag-big-tech-censorship","tag-censorship","tag-cnn","tag-facebook","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-internet","tag-internet-censorship","tag-mainstream-media","tag-misinformation","tag-narrative-control","tag-nbc","tag-new-york-times","tag-propaganda","tag-silicon-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55772","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=55772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55773,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55772\/revisions\/55773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}