I see nothing wrong with owners of private platforms refusing to allow their platforms to be used for spreading falsehoods. There's a significant percentage of Americans who are not going to be swayed by facts or evidence. As I mentioned before, the majority of Republicans believe Trump was the legitimate winner of the 2020 election, and that Biden stole the election through voter and election fraud. No amount of facts or evidence will convince these people that they're wrong. The same with covid vaccines. The less falsehoods there are on the internet, the better.
According to Wikipedia, misinformation is unintentionally putting out false information. Disinformation is when false information is intentionally put out.
It's not a matter of any of the claims or reports being not true or accurate. It's a matter of whether or not the claims could be authenticated. If they can't be authenticated, there is no way to know whether or not what was reported is true. According to the experts hired by the Washington Post who examined the data, only a small fraction of what was on the drive could be authenticated.
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Responsible journalists do not print stories that cannot be authenticated. When the NY Post first printed the story, they wouldn't even provide the data to anyone else to examine, which is why no major outlets reported on the story.
No. Again, I'm concerned that he may allow his platform to be used to spread lies and incite violence. I believe Musk said he would allow anything to be posted on Twitter, that is not against the law. That means that Twitter can be used to promote hate, racism, lies, etc..
Yes they are. There's no comparison between the two. It's well documented that Fox News lies on the air repeatedly. They were constantly lying about election and voter fraud on the air, and were forced to go on the air and publicly admit they lied on multiple programs. There is also currently a billion dollar lawsuit against them, for their election lies. They repeatedly lied about the Seth Rich murder, and paid out a multi-million dollar settlement to his family, to compensate them for the lies they told about his murder. Fox News commentators have regularly lied about the covid vaccines. Fox News has mandated that their employees get vaccinated for covid, while at the same time their commentators go on the air questioning the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines. During the 1/6 rioting, Fox News commentators were saying one thing on the air and something very different in private. Their texts have been made public, and while they were texting Mark Meadows to get Trump to tell his supporters to go home, on the air they were blaming Antifa for the rioting. Alex Jones recently lost a $100 million lawsuit for lying about the Sandy Hook shooting, and calling it a "false flag operation."
Rachel Maddow has never been successfully sued for defamation. I don't think anyone on MSNBC news has. OAN sued Rachel Maddow once, and lost, and was forced to pay her legal fees.
Another way to compare the right-wing media to the liberal media is to look at the death rates from covid-19. Most Trump voters get their information from right-wing sources. Most Biden voters don't. In counties where Trump got 90% of the vote or more, the death rate from covid-19 was approximately 10 times higher than the death rate in counties where Trump got less than 10% of the vote. This is what the disinformation from the right-wing media does, and this is why social media platforms should do as much as they can't to prevent their platforms from being used to spread lies and falsehoods. It's not just matter of hurting people's feelings. These lies are killing people.