UK Government to launch Fake News Rapid Response Unit
Sounds like a comedy sketch written for Benny Hill... or Saturday Night Live...
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Is it fake news when the media state "XXX is expected to announce XXX at a meeting today"? It happens all the time, especially on the 24 hour "news" programmes.
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Control of the media whether it's inaccurate news or not, by the government is setting a dangerous precedent, it's very 'Russia' like. |
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I'll stick with the BBC and Private Eye. Between the two of them I'll get a better idea of what's true. After all the left,right and centre accuse them of bias so as the saying goes they must be getting something right.
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Social media is simply the modern equivalent of two women gossiping over the garden fence . . mind you, that could cause some right kerfuffles in the neighborhood at times :D |
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They need to get rid of the crap that pops up on facebook and them stupid side adds that say "This photo from 1940, Then look what amazing happened next" you click bait it and see it's some crap about nothing
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Getting rid of fake news? I bet rupert murdoch is crapping himself :D
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Not much detail into what they're actually doing. I don't like the idea of the government having much control, if any, over the media.
But let's be clear what fake news is. It is not The Guardian, The Sun, The New York Times or The Daily Mail. All of these are legitimate papers which have an editorial process. They might make mistakes, they might be disingenuous, they might take things out of context and give errorless impressions but they rarely invent news. You'll be hard pressed to find an example of any of them outright making something up with the full knowledge they were doing so at the time. Fake news is literally fake news. It's news spread on social media that was invented by some troll or political agency somewhere. A quote that some Tory said circling on social media that they never said, a report from RT about rigging in the Scottish Election which they made up, Pizzagate or something else like that. The Government shouldn't be deciding if The Sun has been disingenuous or not. It should be trying to stop foreign agents using the internet to spread fabricated stories which sow discord in the country but I don't know how they can do that. |
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