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“On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” This accidentally poignant cartoon [1] from
The New Yorker in 1993 kicked off a long-standing tension between the internet and truth. Nearly 20 years later, when a 22-year old actress pretended to quit her job using a dry erase board and company-wide email it became apparent that many still believed the aphorism “if it’s on the internet, it must be true [2]”.
In the 2010s, the seeming war between the internet and truth grew to unprecedented heights. The buildup to the 2016 U.S. presidential elections brought home to far more people, not just Americans, the reality of misinformation and disinformation––not only their salience for our experiences online but for core elements of the offline world as well, including democracy itself. There’s no simple answer to these challenges. But we’ll make progress most effectively by trying to figure out how to work with and not against the internet, because a war is not the right
Two Democratic Congresspeople want to censor Fox News, Newsmax, and One America News Network over their election fraud coverage—but nowhere do these Congresspeople mention that for three years the left-wing outlets carried on a daily basis false and fallacious reporting and analysis on Russian collusion.
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Some say there s a war brewing against conservative media, while others argue it s just another example of Democrats trying to censor viewpoints and political speech they don t like or agree with.
On Wednesday, the Democrat-led House Energy and Commerce Committee held a virtual hearing labeled Disinformation and Extremism in the Media. When truth becomes a commodity to be traded upon for profit, and facts and consequences don t matter to those who report them, our democracy is undermined, argued Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) during the hearing. It is the responsibility of this Sub-Committee to hold these institutions to a higher standard.