I'd say that CNN promotes most of the fake news. So this business of "Facebook and google" fighting fake news is already biased.
My advice to every human being - Folks, don't believe what you think!
Whatever you might believe, I challenge you to question it and research and find out if you really are sure about anything you think. I say this using the proverbial "you" - because it's all of us.
We have all been affected by what we assume to be the facts in global politics etc etc. I have found that by researching the simplest of assumptions, that just about everything we think we "know" is false these days.
The fake news comes from EVERYWHERE - please consider that before simply agreeing with something that jives with your current level of brainwashing. This rule applies to me too! Let's all fight the brainwashing!
Seek the truth everywhere and question every assumption.
Journalism seems to be dead these days. Only Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalists should be listened to I'd say, and even then you gotta fact check them too!
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Exactly - I mean, look at recent world politics. Can we even fact check anything? Is logical proof needed for anything? I'd say no. When many world leaders ignore things that the UN says and not one "journalist" questions the premise for any position or argument, logic goes out the window.
To do any "fact checking" means somehow we have to begin at some starting position that does not IN OF ITSELF consist of more assumptions and falsehoods!
I could try to use examples - but it would certainly turn political. Instead I ask my fellow human beings to please examine every fact that you think is a "fact" and find out how much is "assumed" to be fact and how much is "actual fact"
