As you've likely heard by now, Facebook has taken its war against 'fake news' to a whole other level — employing third party media and fact-checking organizations to judge whether news items are legitimate — to the consternation of countless users who see the platform overstepping red lines.
Servile corporate media immediately parroted the wealth of benefits Facebook's
plan will ostensibly provide, from an alert and gateway system forced onto articles deemed "disputed," to the
organizations making the 'kiss of death' judgment call: Snopes, FactCheck.org, Politifact, and ABC News.
Anyone with passing knowledge of bias in media is probably spitting out their coffee — all four organizations are
notoriously left-leaning and liberal, and the list includes no outlets with any other of myriad ideological tilts.
Indeed, right-leaning outlets from Breitbart to the Drudge Report, as well as the sizable alternative media community — who, collectively, held to higher journalistic standards throughout the election cycle than "old media" titans like the
New York Times and
Washington Post — quickly condemned the unabashed bias imbued in Facebook's plan.
Mark Zuckerberg, a large consensus concluded, just declared war on dissent — if not information, itself.
Comment: Feis-Bryce proposes that decriminalization of the sex trade would provide sex workers with rights and enable them to work more safely, one point to consider is that it is NOT a job like any other and for most is a last resort rather than a choice. Furthermore would the decriminalization send a message to society that selling sexual services is a morally acceptable form of employment?
Obviously it isn't black and white and something does need to change as the violence and deaths are horrifying, but surely there are other ways to go about it. Perhaps by targeting the porn industry further, Mary Anne Layden of the University of Pennsylvania who specializes in sexual trauma says in this article that pornography 'has been a factor in every case of sexual violence that she has treated as a psychotherapist.' Or maybe targeting the traffickers (pimps) and supporting groups like SPACE and providing ways out of prostitution.