As Robert Parry of Consortium News explains in his recent post, NYT Cheers the Rise of Censorship Algorithms:
[contentcards url=”http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-03/why-new-york-times-cheering-censorship-algorithms” target=”_blank”]Just days after sporting First Amendment pins at the White House Correspondents Dinner – to celebrate freedom of the press – the mainstream U.S. media is back to celebrating a very different idea: how to use algorithms to purge the Internet of what is deemed “fake news,” i.e. what the mainstream judges to be “misinformation.”
The New York Times, one of the top promoters of this new Orwellian model for censorship, devoted two-thirds of a page in its Tuesday editions to a laudatory pieceabout high-tech entrepreneurs refining artificial intelligence that can hunt down and eradicate supposedly “fake news.”