News Brief: NATO-Aligned Think Tank Will Help Curate Truth For Facebook
Added 2018-05-30 19:20:11 +0000 UTCHi all, we are off this week but wanted to post this News Brief for our patrons. Thanks again for your support!
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On this News Brief, Adam and Nima discuss the recent announcement that Facebook will be partnering with The Atlantic Council, a DC think tank funded primarily by foreign governments, NATO and the arms industry, to "monitor" the internet "for misinformation and foreign interference."
Media Ignore Government Influence on Facebook’s Plan to Fight Government Influence - Adam Johnson, FAIR (5/21/18)
How the “Fake News” Scare Is Marginalizing the Left - Julianne Tveten, In These Times (10/11/17)
How Think Tanks Amplify Corporate America’s Influence - Eric Lipton and Brooke Williams, The New York Times (8/7/16)
Atlantic Council and Corporate Donors - Interactive, The New York Times (8/7/16)
Foreign Powers Buy Influence at Think Tanks - Eric Lipton, Brooke Williams and Nicholas Confessore, The New York Times (9/6/14)
Chuck Hagel's Think Tank, Its Donors, and Intellectual Independence - Ken Silverstein and Brooke Williams, The New Republic (2/12/13)
Comments
bloody hell...
sensorsweep
2018-05-31 23:37:24 +0000 UTCYou guys should do an episode on the various internet astroturfing schemes done by state propagandists. For example, I have never spoken with a pro-Israel person before who didn't resort to Wikipedia for information on the conflict, and when you check the sources they're all Jewish News Agency, Jeffery Goldberg, AEI propaganda etc. I believe that the Guardian had a report on "zionist Wikipedia editing sessions" some years back.
excellent minaret
2018-05-31 08:18:20 +0000 UTCAlso, in case you don't see it in your Twitter mentions: <a href="https://twitter.com/bjorn/status/1001918294918545408" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/bjorn/status/1001918294918545408</a>
2018-05-30 22:36:16 +0000 UTClol
Citations Needed
2018-05-30 22:15:39 +0000 UTC
