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DIGITAL LOCK DOWN: GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK TAKE AIM AT ‘FAKE NEWS’ WEBSITES
The moves by Google and Facebook follow a recent de-monitzation effort at Youtube that has also targeted alternative media. As noted in their “Advertiser Friendly Content Guidelines,” they appear to be targeting exactly the issues often covered by alternative media by directly banning:
Content that is considered “not advertiser-friendly” includes, but is not limited to:
Controversial or sensitive subjects and events, including subjects related to war, political conflicts, natural disasters and tragedies, even if graphic imagery is not shown.
So basically, anything newsworthy is no longer advertiser friendly, and these organizations will now determine whose news will or won’t be seen based on what is sure to be proprietary algorithms and secretive human curation.
The bottom line is this: the time and energy required to produce the amount of video content and investigative journalism that we saw during the election is astronomical. Thousands of journalists, bloggers and concerned citizens spent countless hours reporting the news the mainstream media wouldn’t. Many of those people depend on advertising revenue to cover their most basic website maintenance costs, as well as their monthly mortgages and the food they put on their dinner tables.
The aim with policies like this, which will no doubt be overseen by establishment hacks, is to quite literally starve independent media. In turn, they will starve the people of the information they so desperately need to understand what is being done to them.
- the right thing to do would to set up a youtube alternative for alternative media. if the traffic follows, the advertisers will follow.uan
- the anti-free speech brigade simply argue that they're not shutting anyone down, only demonetizing.Gnash
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Bursting the Facebook bubble:
https://www.theguard…instrmntl - good, too much dumb in this world as it is alreadymoldero
- so does that mean no more FOX?moldero
- if one judges with equal eye it would include Fox, CNN, Al Jazeera, BBC, CBC... endless, really.
do you want Facebook and google deciding what is true?Gnash - fuck you googleutopian
- fuck you Facebookutopian