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April 26, 2022
Will Mr. Musk help us?
Sam Smith - For some weeks our own links (not links to other sites) have been banned by Twitter because they have determined them to be harmful. This is the first time in over 55 years that anything like this has happened to the Review.
On being erased by YouTube, Chris Hedges writes: Sites that once attracted tens or hundreds of thousands of followers suddenly saw their numbers nosedive. Google’s “Project Owl,” designed to eradicate “fake news,” employed “algorithmic updates to surface more authoritative content” and downgrade “offensive” material. Traffic fell for sites such as Alternet by 63%, Democracy Now by 36 %, Common Dreams by 37 %, Truthout by 25 %, The Intercept by 19% and Counterpunch by 21%. The World Socialist Web site saw its traffic fall by two-thirds. Julian Assange and WikiLeaks were all but erased. Mother Jones editors in 2019 wrote that they suffered a sharp decline in its Facebook audience, which translated to an estimated loss of $600,000 over 18 months.
Opinions become facts when they are exposed to rigorous examination, testing, scrutiny by respected experts and evaluation in practice. Where are we headed as a society?
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Elon Musk will makeit worse
On being erased by YouTube, Chris Hedges writes: Sites that once attracted tens or hundreds of thousands of followers suddenly saw their numbers nosedive. Google’s “Project Owl,” designed to eradicate “fake news,” employed “algorithmic updates to surface more authoritative content” and downgrade “offensive” material. Traffic fell for sites such as Alternet by 63%, Democracy Now by 36 %, Common Dreams by 37 %, Truthout by 25 %, The Intercept by 19% and Counterpunch by 21%. The World Socialist Web site saw its traffic fall by two-thirds. Julian Assange and WikiLeaks were all but erased. Mother Jones editors in 2019 wrote that they suffered a sharp decline in its Facebook audience, which translated to an estimated loss of $600,000 over 18 months.
Opinions become facts when they are exposed to rigorous examination, testing, scrutiny by respected experts and evaluation in practice. Where are we headed as a society?
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