• Latest
  • Trending
CNN’s Stelter Cites ‘Fact Checkers’ in Call for Increased Twitter Censorship

CNN’s Stelter Cites ‘Fact Checkers’ in Call for Increased Twitter Censorship

04/18
Alan Dershowitz Becomes Combative When Asked About Jeffrey Epstein And Mossad

Alan Dershowitz Becomes Combative When Asked About Jeffrey Epstein And Mossad

03/22
DeSantis is Losing

New Polling Shows Trump Building a Bigger Lead on DeSantis

03/22
Flashback Footage: AIDS Patients Storm the NIH After Fauci Blocks Life-Saving Treatments

Flashback Footage: AIDS Patients Storm the NIH After Fauci Blocks Life-Saving Treatments

03/22
Rep. Gaetz: DeSantis ‘Puts Every Floridian at Risk’ Allowing Trump Extradition to Soros DA

Rep. Gaetz: DeSantis ‘Puts Every Floridian at Risk’ Allowing Trump Extradition to Soros DA

03/22
Amnesty International Admits Ukraine is Using Children as Human Shields

Amnesty International Admits Ukraine is Using Children as Human Shields

03/22
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Told Prosecutors to Stop Putting Violent Felons in Jail

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Told Prosecutors to Stop Putting Violent Felons in Jail

03/22
Israeli Lawmakers Want to Throw Christians in Jail for Talking About Jesus

Israeli Lawmakers Want to Throw Christians in Jail for Talking About Jesus

03/21
Stew Peters Show: Freedom Caucus Cowards Lied to Voters, Won’t Impeach Biden

Stew Peters Show: Freedom Caucus Cowards Lied to Voters, Won’t Impeach Biden

03/21
Leftist Reporter Is NYPD-Protected ANTIFA Commander, Sources Say

Conservatives Worry About Leftist/Antifa Agitators as Trump Arrest Looms

03/20
Video: Fauci Wants to ‘Break’ the Free Will of Americans to Force COVID Jabs

Video: Fauci Wants to ‘Break’ the Free Will of Americans to Force COVID Jabs

03/20
Video: Indiscriminate Violence Grips Miami During Black Spring Break

Video: Indiscriminate Violence Grips Miami During Black Spring Break

03/20
Just 10% of Manhattan Residents Voted for Anti-Trump DA in 2021 Election

Just 10% of Manhattan Residents Voted for Anti-Trump DA in 2021 Election

03/20
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Subscribe
SUPPORT
National File
  • Home
  • Culture
    • Christianity
    • Video Games
    • Marxism
    • Snowflakes
    • Free Speech
  • News
    • Breaking News
    • International News
    • Fake News
    • Exclusive
  • Politics
    • Gun Rights
    • The Swamp
    • Deep State
    • Supreme Court
    • 2020
    • 2022
    • 2024
  • Big Tech
    • Technology
    • Alt-Tech
  • Sports
  • Education
  • Rona’
SUBSCRIBE
  • Home
  • Culture
    • Christianity
    • Video Games
    • Marxism
    • Snowflakes
    • Free Speech
  • News
    • Breaking News
    • International News
    • Fake News
    • Exclusive
  • Politics
    • Gun Rights
    • The Swamp
    • Deep State
    • Supreme Court
    • 2020
    • 2022
    • 2024
  • Big Tech
    • Technology
    • Alt-Tech
  • Sports
  • Education
  • Rona’
No Result
View All Result
National File
SUBSCRIBE
Home Big Tech

CNN’s Stelter Cites ‘Fact Checkers’ in Call for Increased Twitter Censorship

by Ben Bailey
April 18, 2022
in Big Tech, Fake News Media
CNN’s Stelter Cites ‘Fact Checkers’ in Call for Increased Twitter Censorship
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Last Updated on April 18, 2022

#

CNN’s Brian Stelter, who has consistently supported censorship of those critical of those critical of the corporate media apparatus, is again advocating for increased censorship on Twitter. Stelter used “misinformation” and “disinformation” as a justification for censorship, citing work from professors at two elite universities. Stelter has often said that the media needs to be more trustworthy, but has never taken responsibility for corporate media’s repeated lies and debunked reporting.

In a recent segment, Stelter asserted that Republicans and conservatives are more likely to be censored because they are more likely to share fake news. “Thus with social media’s platforms, policies aimed at reducing nonsense and boosting real news, would ensnare Republican users more often,” Stelter said on his show, Reliable Sources.

RelatedPosts

Fake News: Gizmodo, Media Matters Publish Patently False Stories About National File

Report: House Republicans Balk at Real Action on Big Tech

Israeli Bankers Pulled $1 Billion from SVB Immediately Before Its Collapse

Stelter then continued to talk about how “free speech” and “cancel culture narratives” are central to GOP and “Trumpian” fundraising efforts. He added that Elon Musk’s attempted hostile takeover of Twitter is built on this premise.

One of the academics responsible for the research that Stelter cited responded to the tweet above, which was initially shared by Tim Graham of Newsbusters.

If you want to read the actual research study, see this thread https://t.co/Mfd9UI3MhW

— David G. Rand (@DG_Rand) April 18, 2022

Since this research is being shared on a major network, albeit on a show with dismally poor ratings, it is worth looking into the research and those conducting it.

According to his Twitter profile, David G. Rand is a professor at MIT who specializes in “misinformation and fake news”, among other social topics. He also has he/him pronouns included in his bio.

Stelter, as well as the cited academics, begin with the premise that there is broad “bipartisan support” for social media networks policing fake news. This begs the question: who determines what is considered fake?

Rand also asserts that right leaning users share stories from “lower quality news sources.”

Even more than in past work, the Republicans shared links from MUCH lower quality news sources than Democrats – with source quality judged either by fact-checkers or a politically balanced set of laypeople (heading off claims of bias in the evaluation of what counts as misinfo) pic.twitter.com/tas5FLMsHi

— David G. Rand (@DG_Rand) April 14, 2022

To determine the quality of a news source, Rand cited such things as judgment of fact-checkers.

Stelter’s employer, as well as other corporate outlets, have had many of their major stories debunked over the last several years. This includes the Trump-Russia saga, Covington high school controversy, Wuhan lab leak, and the Hunter Biden laptop story, among many others.

Supposed fact-checkers have also not been immune from sharing biased and even outright false information. PolitiFact and Snopes, two popular fact-checkers, have repeatedly misled readers looking for the truth.

We're thankful that after we posted this video in May, Jen Psaki finally has a fact-check page on PolitiFact, even though it only has one fact-check on her. pic.twitter.com/Z7UYgx8Rwq

— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) November 25, 2021

This video from the Media Research Center explains something called “selection bias”, which involves fact checkers picking and choosing what they want to cover. The example used is that PolitiFact has fact-checked assertions about Joe Biden about eight times more than they have fact-checked statements from him since he was inaugurated. PolitiFact also took nearly a year to start a fact-check page for Biden press secretary Jen Psaki. Meanwhile, they had established a fact-check page for former Trump press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders before she officially assumed that position.

RELATED: Corporate Journalists Were Grilled by Students At ‘Disinformation’ Seminar

Tags: Big TechBig Tech CensorshipBrian StelterCNNDisinformationFake News MediaMisinformationTwitter

Related Posts

Fake News: Gizmodo, Media Matters Publish Patently False Stories About National File
Fake News

Fake News: Gizmodo, Media Matters Publish Patently False Stories About National File

March 19, 2023
Report: Twitter and Facebook Held Regular Meetings with DHS to Coordinate Censorship
Big Tech

Report: House Republicans Balk at Real Action on Big Tech

March 17, 2023
Israeli Bankers Pulled $1 Billion from SVB Immediately Before Its Collapse
Big Tech

Israeli Bankers Pulled $1 Billion from SVB Immediately Before Its Collapse

March 14, 2023
Load More
Facebook Twitter Reddit Telegram RSS

Category

  • 2020
  • 2022
  • 2024
  • Alt-Tech
  • Big Tech
  • Borders
  • Breaking News
  • cartoons
  • China
  • Christianity
  • Civil Unrest
  • Climate Hysteria
  • commentary
  • Coronavirus
  • Culture
  • Deep State
  • Economic War
  • Economy
  • Education
  • Election Integrity
  • Elections
  • Exclusive
  • Fake News
  • Fake News Media
  • Feminism
  • Free Speech
  • Gun Rights
  • Hate Hoax
  • Human Trafficking
  • Immigration
  • Impeachment
  • International News
  • LGBTQ
  • Life
  • lifestyle
  • Marxism
  • Movies
  • National Security
  • Nationalism vs. Globalism
  • News
  • op-ed
  • Opinion
  • Opioid Crisis
  • Politics
  • Radical Islam
  • Related Stories
  • Sex Crimes
  • Snowflakes
  • Soros
  • Sports
  • States
  • Supreme Court
  • Technology
  • The Hill
  • The Swamp
  • Video
  • Video Games
  • Violent Crime
  • Vote fraud
  • Voter Fraud
  • Voter Fraud Investigation
  • White House
  • Wholesome News

Recent News

  • Alan Dershowitz Becomes Combative When Asked About Jeffrey Epstein And Mossad
  • New Polling Shows Trump Building a Bigger Lead on DeSantis
  • Flashback Footage: AIDS Patients Storm the NIH After Fauci Blocks Life-Saving Treatments

© 2022 NationalFile.com National File, LLC. Privacy. Corrections. About Us. All Rights Reserved.
Have any questions or suggestions? If you are having difficulty unsubscribing from our mail subscription please send an email here [email protected] Want to advertise with us? Please email: [email protected]

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Politics
  • News
  • Culture
  • Coronavirus
  • Sports
  • 2020
  • Breaking News
  • Civil Unrest
  • International News
  • The Swamp
  • Big Tech
  • Deep State
  • Voter Fraud
  • Marxism
  • Free Speech
  • DONATE
  • SUBSCRIBE

© 2022 NationalFile.com National File, LLC. Privacy. Corrections. About Us. All Rights Reserved.
Have any questions or suggestions? If you are having difficulty unsubscribing from our mail subscription please send an email here [email protected] Want to advertise with us? Please email: [email protected]

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In