France is to create a state agency to detect fake news over fears that next year’s presidential election could be hit by a “pandemic” of disinformation.
The National Agency for the Fight Against Manipulations of Information
Manipulations will be defined as whatever doesn’t suit the people running the national agency. It is, therefore, an incumbency protection scheme.
If Orwell was alive today, he’d be making documentaries
Perfect timing. Just as google, facebook etc begin to stop censoring “fake news” about Chinese flu.
@Henry… He did with “1984”… He just didn’t know.
It’s even “Ministry of Truth” translated into French (well, bureaucratic French as bureaucratese always adds a few syllables)
The National Agency for the Fight Against Manipulations of Information
They hope the pen is mightier than Le Pen.
The advertising standards agency and its opinions on masks come to mind
Micron could save a shedload of money by renting some Dominion voter auditing machines.
Will this National Agency investigate Macron’s fake news about the AZ vaccine?
@Henry,
If Orwell were alive today he’d probably say something like: “I warned you, you fucking fools”
Then he’d probably shrug and walk away.
Re BIND
We clearly didn’t listen to Orwell.
Now we’re going to find out who listened to Solzhenitsyn
The fact that they think there is a need for such nonsense is very good news. The bastards are clearly worried indeed.
@ Flubber..
We did… It’s the peeps who treat that particular book as a protocol manual that are the problem…
And the True Enemy.
All sounds consistent with Napoleonic Law
Ofcom is already doing it to UK media.
Given that it’s clearly intended to keep a woman from becoming president, it’s pure misogyny