Regulators should investigate the role of Google, Facebook and digital advertising in the spread of fake news, a media body has said.
The News Media Association (NMA), which represents national and local publishers, said the digital advertising supply chain which favours fake news and helps it to thrive was “murky at best, fraudulent at worst”.
In a recommendation to the culture, media and sport committee’s fake news inquiry, the body called for an “urgent investigation” by regulators such as Ofcom and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) into its impact on Google and Facebook.
One part of an industry using whatever to cause problems for a competitive part of said industry?
What about the BBC perpetuating fake news, such as yesterday’s gender pay gap myth?
Christine Hoffman Sommers on the gender pay gap (most of you have probably already seen it):
https://youtu.be/QcDrE5YvqTs
The Guardian and BBC practise “good journalism” – the promulgation of leaked and non-attributable press briefings, sometimes also called unverified gossip – rather than fake news
Examples of good journalism :
“Sources have told us”
“we have learned ”
” Anti-fraud investigators said they had repeatedly warned British customs officials about the scale of the fraud. A spokesperson said”
Barricade the fiction section of libraries!
If they stop Google and Facebook, people will just get their fake news somewhere else. G/F are giving their customers what they want, else they wouldn’t be customers.
Barriers being erected by the incumbents: Uber all over again.
Gamecock,
“If they stop Google and Facebook, people will just get their fake news somewhere else. G/F are giving their customers what they want, else they wouldn’t be customers.”
They (and the cabbies) are basically luddites, fighting against new technology. They think they’re fighting a) Google or b) Uber, but they’re really fighting a) very cheap ways of moving information around b) GPS, mobile phones and cheap CPU cycles. Unless you can uninvent those things, this is the future.
Somebody once telephoned me and insulted me. I WANT BT SHUT DOWN!!!!!