The German Marshall Fund is an influential think tank based in Washington, D.C., named for U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall’s 1948 plan to help European countries resist Communism. What a shame that in 2020 the outfit is promoting political suppression of conservative news, with state media as a recommended replacement.under the headline “New Study by Digital New Deal Finds Engagement with Deceptive Outlets Higher on Facebook Today Than Run-up to 2016 Election.
What are these “deceptive outlets” that most concern the Marshall Fund researchers? In a word, they’re conservative. Engagement with political outlets that “fail to gather and present information responsibly—especially Fox, Daily Wire, and Breitbart—has grown 293 percent,” the report claims. While left-leaning sites are also labeled as deceptive in the GMF methodology, “the top sites are conservative,” the authors say. They add that “Fox News is of particular interest as it garners the most interactions of any of the sites.” Its “irresponsible and misleading claims” include “that social distancing has not stopped the spread of the coronavirus.”
Such outlets allegedly “pose a threat to informed democratic discourse.” Their content reaches readers because it is “often oppositional to ‘mainstream media’ and so-called elite or conventional wisdom.” The horror!
opinion Per Mueller report and recent FBI warnings...Facebook is allowing Russian propaganda/misinformation to influence our elections. QAnon has been labeled as a primary domestic threat. Add COVID misinformation. How about militia groups that have killed police and attempted to kidnap.
opinion Sooo therefore they aren’t deceptive?
opinion So aren’t conservatives bright enough to have their own researchers and highlight what they consider “deceptive outlets”. Or is it easier to whinge, whine and generally complain.
opinion Shucks, all along I thought it was because you weren't even human enough to care about Humanity? .. if the Wall Street Journal editorial page would just change – either one of those and this would be finished, we’d be done with climate, we’d be acting,”
opinion You are EnemyOfThePeople praying every day you go bankrupt
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