In the latest unscientific poll at SharylAttkisson.com, nobody said they believe social media and news are “watching out for us” when they censor ideas/info/people. Everybody said such censorship amounts to “trying to manipulate.” When social media/news censors ideas/info/people, it’s: 0% […]
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(Original air date: November 3, 2019) As Congress turns up the heat on companies like Facebook.. they’re facing added pressure. Nearly every state has now joined an anti-trust investigation that could threaten the way the tech giants do business. Lisa
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1. Twitter Astroturf and Manipulation In 2015, Twitter made plans for an #AskPOTUS town hall with President Obama to compete with rivals like Reddit, which was drawing a lot of attention for its interactive Q&A sessions with well- known people.
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Ninety-nine percent (99%) of the 1,172 people who answered the latest unscientific poll at SharylAttkisson.com say social media companies have become politicized. Only a few see social media companies as being just “a little” politicized or not at all. Have
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After widespread complaints about what many see as partisan censorship tactics deployed by Facebook, Twitter, Google, President Trump today signed the following executive order: Read the order on the White House site here. By the authority vested in me as
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The following is a news analysis. I’ve been drawing attention to the increasingly aggressive efforts by political and corporate interests to control the information you get on the new and online. I have often spoken of disingenuous “fact checking” efforts
I dig into the prevailing media narratives about coronavirus, including Facebook “fact checks,” that have themselves been proven false.
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The vast majority of people who responded to our latest unscientific poll at SharylAttkisson.com do not want third parties filtering their information. In one of the most overwhelming votes among our polls, 98% said “hands off” when asked if they
