On Monday, the Aspen Institute released Report of their information barrier committee (Yes, that’s true) They propose “structural changes” to “reduce information confusion.” Some of these suggestions are here:
At first glance, this reads like an attempt to make progress before the expected reform of Article 230 and/or anti-competitive behavior
Big Tech provides “mea culpa” suggestions. https://t.co/6jszpAIjN9-Capital Research (@capitalresearch) November 16, 2021
Whenever an organization starts talking about creating a new norm to have consequences for violations, it is best to investigate who the organization is. This is where the purity of the Information Barrier Committee and its agenda begins to fall apart.
The co-author of the Aspen Institute report on false information hyped the Jussie Smollett scam, even after it became clear that it was a scam. Examples of his tweets. https://t.co/4R37w4l3Hn pic.twitter.com/bxI1W42QWg
-Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) November 16, 2021
Well, this is not ideal.The fact that the committee is co-chaired by “award-winning journalist Katie Couric” is not the case-she is no stranger to false information lately Optional editing of SCOTUS Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s comments To adapt to the anti-NFL narrative.
The Twitter executive responsible for blocking stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop is one of several advisors to the Aspen Institute’s Disinformation Committee.
Yoel Roth is one of several questionable advisors to the Aspen Information Disorder Committee, which released the highly anticipated report. Committee members include Katie Couric, who recently recognize In an interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2016, she edited comments on the national anthem protests to safeguard the reputation of justice among liberals. Another commissioner, Rashad Robinson, contributed to the hate crime scam by actor Jussie Smollett.
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Roth, head of Twitter site integrity, Block access By October 14, 2020, New York Post Article about the email from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop. Ross told the Federal Election Commission that he blocked the story partly because the intelligence community told him that foreign governments might release hacked materials before the election. There is no evidence that Biden’s laptop was stolen or hacked, and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has since admitted that the company should not block the link to the story.
The Aspen Commission’s report criticized Twitter and other social media companies for failing to control false information, but did not cite Twitter’s review of Biden’s articles.
Industry fact checkers are actually the worst abusers of facts, and this has become so common that it seems that every day a new article details their abuses.One of the most surprising examples is that this work comes from BuzzFeed accuses the co-founder of Snopes of plagiarizing news articles At the same time, he called his work a fact check. The use of news reports for fact-checking news reports seems to be problematic.
David Mickelson The co-founder of the fact-checking website Snopes has long positioned himself as an arbiter of online truth and a bastion against rumors and fake news.But he keeps lying Tens of millions of readers of the site: A BuzzFeed news survey found that between 2015 and 2019, Mickelson wrote and published dozens of articles containing plagiarism from news media such as The Guardian and Los Angeles Times.
After inquiry by BuzzFeed News, Snopes conducted an internal review and confirmed that Mickelson had written and published 54 plagiarized articles under a pseudonym, Snopes’s signature, and his own name. These articles included topics such as same-sex marriage certificates and the death of musician David Bowie.
Although most Americans are beginning to understand that prejudice is so entrenched that it has the ability to establish friendly committees to give people a sense of oversight, online censorship is still very common; and may continue until Congress begins to take them seriously in addressing tech giants and progress. The role of the alliance of professionals in anti-competitive practices. This tweet by Senator Ron Johnson on Tuesday is just one of the latest examples of how “fact checking” works in practice.
For the fifth time this year, @YouTube I can’t tell you the truth under review.
This time they don’t want you to hear the 3.5-hour story of doctors, scientists, and vaccine injuries.
At least you can watch it by yourself @rumblevideohttps://t.co/IBOcjxZyu9
-Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) November 13, 2021
Now with the Aspen Institute report, efforts to make this version of “fact checking” a best practice standard are in full swing. It is best for Congress not to accept the recommendations of the Institute and try to find its own solutions to solve the online censorship problem.
