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Misinformation Spreaders aka Journalists

The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows

What do you get when you cross a Misinformation Spreader with an Internet Hall Monitor? Why a journalist, of course. A journalist no longer investigates and reports their findings; now they rummage around like rats looking for anything they can devour and barf back up. In their eyes, opinions are facts while true facts are lies.

…these journalistic hall monitors cannot abide the idea that there can be any place on the internet where people are free to speak in ways they do not approve. Like some creepy informant for a state security apparatus, they spend their days trolling the depths of chat rooms and 4Chan bulletin boards and sub-Reddit threads and private communications apps to find anyone — influential or obscure — who is saying something they believe should be forbidden, and then use the corporate megaphones they did not build and could not have built but have been handed in order to silence and destroy anyone who dissents from the orthodoxies of their corporate managers or challenges their information hegemony.

Journalists have become the ever-present tattletale of the internet and they are encouraged to do so by their employers and fellow journalists. Who, What, Where, When, and Why has been invaded by the ever popular “Whether or not you want my opinion, you’re getting it. And by the way, I’m spying on you.”

This is an interesting article found on the New York Times site that talks about individuals and groups leaving social media and heading into private messaging apps.

The shift to private messaging has renewed a debate over whether encryption is a double-edged sword. While the technology prevents people from being spied on, it might also make it easier for criminals and misinformation spreaders to do harm without getting caught.

So we decided to walk through the differences between public social networks and private messaging apps to discuss their pros and cons.

Interesting they decide it’s easier for criminals AND misinformation spreaders to do harm as if to say the two are one in the same or the biggest issue of this messaging technology. Would they consider both conservative and liberal misinformation at the same level of worry?