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Poynter Retracts List of 515 "Fake News"

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Letter from the Editor Poynter.org

Dear readers:

On Tuesday, April 30, Poynter posted a list of 515 “unreliable” news websites...

Soon after we published, we received complaints...

...our review found weaknesses in the methodology...

Therefore, we are removing this unreliable sites list...

Read the rest of the story HERE:

At www.poynter.org

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David Pear

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To find the original article and the list I had to go to the "Way Back Machine". You can find it HERE.

Poynter is the same organization that publishes PolitiFact, owned by the Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, FL.

Who checks the "fact checkers": Critical thinking required!

As Chris Hedges says, the danger the US faces is from "Inverted Totalitarianism" whereby democracy is subverted by corporations, rather than directly by the state.

Submitted on Friday, May 3, 2019 at 3:28:57 PM

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Devil's Advocate

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Reply to David Pear:

Yes, PolitiFact. The ones who kept calling the idea that RussiaGate was a farce the "biggest lie of the year" (and promoted here on OEN ad nauseum by Don Smith). Another unapologetic group of shills.

Submitted on Saturday, May 4, 2019 at 10:31:25 PM

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Devil's Advocate

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The whole idea of allowing ANYONE to decide FOR EVERYONE ELSE what is "bad" or "fake" information or "inauthentic behaviour", and have this process DICTATE WHAT WE CAN AND CANNOT SEE OR SAY is imply repulsive.

It's one thing for a site to "police" its own comment section. That kind of "filtering" doesn't really affect the spread of opinion throughout the rest of the Internet or other media. But to allow the entire scene to be filtered in a similar manner is to welcome Orwellian censorship.

Any journalistic organization that even entertains the idea (of a bunch of "fact checking authorities" conducting information blocking operations all over the Internet) has either completely lost sight of what they do, or were never created to further journalism in the first place.

The Internet is literally a product EVERYONE'S connected computers. It is powered by EVERYONE who connects. It belongs to EVERYONE, not to just a handful of corporations, and not to any government that wishes to conceal what its doing, from its People, by co-opting these companies.

Submitted on Friday, May 3, 2019 at 4:40:22 PM

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Daniel Geery

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Not that I can recall ever going there, but I've removed Poynter from my potential list of sites to visit--along with all too many others.

DA has it exactly right. I would add, once more, that the internet is akin to Earth itself sprouting a nervous system overnight, certainly in evolutionary terms and almost timewise in human terms.

That so many psychopaths are already trying to control it is something that should have several billion humans who are online up in arms. I'm glad to see that so many are, but we truly can't let this one get any further into the wrong hands.

Thanks, David, for the update.

Submitted on Friday, May 3, 2019 at 8:07:12 PM

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Janet Supriano

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Making room for NOTHING BUT fake.

Submitted on Saturday, May 4, 2019 at 4:05:11 PM

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Daniel Geery

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Reply to Janet Supriano:

Tragically so.

Submitted on Saturday, May 4, 2019 at 4:38:25 PM

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