Michael Bloomberg:
Facebook May Need to ‘Read Every Message’ to Stop Fake News
by Nate Church 21 Sep 2017
At the
first Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York, former New York City Mayor
Michael Bloomberg asserted that social media platforms “have to
be more aggressive” in fighting “fake news.”
Bloomberg believes
that if stopping the spread of “fake news” means that Facebook has to “read every
message,” that it is “[Facebook’s] problem, [not] society’s problem.” He said
that the proliferation of fake news is “not all their fault,” but, “They have a
responsibility. And if they say, ‘Well, there’s no ways to do it other than
maybe we’re going to have a human being read every message,’ I’m sorry. You’re
going to have to do that.
Bloomberg compared it to other systems
of regulation, which he said makes banks “responsible under the law, to
make sure that you don’t launder money,” and telephone companies
“responsible to know where calls come from.” The former mayor said that he
“assumes what [he reads] in the newspapers is true,” saying that supposed Russian
interference in American politics is “as bad as attacking our country with
weapons” and is “killing democracy.”
This is not the first time Bloomberg has brushed off
privacy concerns in the name of security. In an interview with the New York
Daily News in 2013, he addressed concerns about
drone surveillance by saying
that “the argument against using automation, it’s this craziness– ‘Oh, it’s Big
Brother.’ Get used to it.”
Bloomberg’s argument led The Atlantic to label
him a “surveillance-state extremist,” calling him out for claiming that with
rising levels of security, “our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution [have] to
change.”
A Yale University study
published in September found that flagging
stories as “fake
news” had little impact in readers’ deciding whether an article was
true or false. “Slapping down a big logo also doesn’t do anything,”
psychologist David Rand admitted. “People don’t find mainstream media outlets
particularly credible.”
Let’s connect the dots:
Facebook
Chris
Hughes is a co-founder for Facebook,
and was a member of the Democracy
Alliance.
Note: George Soros was a
member of the Democracy Alliance,
the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society, a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, and a benefactor for the Human Rights Watch.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone, the International
Rescue Committee, the Brookings
Institution (think tank), the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank), the Aspen Institute
(think tank), the Robin Hood
Foundation, and the Human Rights
Watch.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, a New York (NY)
mayor, and an advocate for the ONE
Campaign.
ONE Campaign is
a partner with the International Rescue
Committee.
Sheryl K. Sandberg
is a director at the ONE Campaign,
the COO & director for Facebook,
and was a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
David F. Swensen
was a trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and is a chief investment officer for Yale University.
Judith
Rodin was an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a provost at Yale University.
Henry Louis
Gates Jr. was
an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a professor at Yale University.
Morton H. Halperin
is a director at the ONE Campaign,
and was a director at the Constitution
Project.
Howard G. Buffett
is a director at
the ONE Campaign, and Warren E. Buffett’s son.
Susan A. Buffett
is a director at
the ONE Campaign, and Warren E. Buffett’s daughter.
Warren E. Buffett
is Howard G. Buffett & Susan A. Buffett’s father, an adviser
for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think
tank), and an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United States in war)
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for
the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think
tank), and the founder of CNN.
Walter Isaacson was
a chairman & CEO for CNN, is the
president & CEO for the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and a director at the Bloomberg Family Foundation.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Michael R.
Bloomberg is the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, the founder of Everytown
for Gun Safety, Emma Bloomberg’s
father, was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, a New York (NY)
mayor, an advocate for the ONE Campaign,
and a donor for the Robin Hood
Foundation.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety,
Gun Control” group for guns.
Warren E. Buffett
is an advisory board member for Everytown
for Gun Safety, Howard G. Buffett
& Susan A. Buffett’s father, an
adviser for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank).
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), and the founder of CNN.
Vivian Schiller
was the SVP for CNN Productions, and
a
Russian interpreter for the Turner Broadcasting System Inc.
CNN Worldwide
is a division of the Turner Broadcasting
System Inc., and CNN.
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Network Flack Refuse to Comment on Russia Retraction to Own Network
Jeff
Zucker is the president of CNN
Worldwide, and a director emeritus for the Robin Hood Foundation.
Emma Bloomberg
was the chief of staff for the Robin
Hood Foundation, is a director at the Robin
Hood Foundation, a director at the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, and Michael R.
Bloomberg’s daughter.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Stephen L. Carter
is a trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), and a professor at Yale
University.
Henry Louis
Gates Jr. is a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and was a professor at Yale University.
Marvin H. Edwards
is the VP for the Aspen Institute (think
tank), and was a director at the Constitution
Project.
Mortimer B.
Zuckerman was a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), the owner & publisher for the New York Daily News, and is an overseer
at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center.
James E. Rothman
is an overseer at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center, and a professor at Yale
University.
Jeff
Zucker is an overseer at the Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, a director emeritus for the Robin Hood Foundation, and the president
of CNN Worldwide.
CNN Worldwide
is a division of the Turner Broadcasting
System Inc., and CNN.
Vivian Schiller
was a Russian interpreter for the Turner Broadcasting System Inc, and the
SVP for CNN Productions.
Patricia E.
Mitchell was the president of CNN
Productions, and a director at the Human
Rights Watch.
James F. Hoge Jr.
was a chairman for the Human Rights
Watch, and a publisher & president for the New York
Daily News.
George
Soros was a benefactor for the Human
Rights Watch, the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, a member of the Democracy Alliance, and is a member of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition.
Chris
Hughes was a member of the Democracy
Alliance, and is a co-founder for Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg
is a co-founder & chairman & CEO for Facebook, and a member of the Breakthrough
Energy Coalition.
George
Soros is a member of the Breakthrough
Energy Coalition, the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was a benefactor for the Human Rights Watch, the chairman for
the Foundation to Promote Open Society,
a benefactor for the Harlem Children's
Zone, and a member of the Democracy
Alliance.
Morton H. Halperin
is a senior adviser for the Open Society
Foundations, a director at the ONE
Campaign, and Mark Halperin’s
father.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was an advocate for the ONE
Campaign, a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, a New York (NY)
mayor, a donor for the Robin Hood
Foundation, is the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, the founder of Everytown
for Gun Safety, Emma Bloomberg’s
father, and the founder of Bloomberg LP.
Bloomberg
Politics is a division of Bloomberg LP.
Mark Halperin is
a founding editor for Bloomberg Politics,
and Morton H. Halperin’s son.
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