Mozilla, the non-profit organization which runs the Firefox internet browser, said Wednesday it was launching an effort against “fake news,” as fact-checking software backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and George Soros got its first run-out in public to shape our Orwellian nightmare of future truth arbiters.
Mozilla said it was “investing in people, programs and projects” in a new initiative to “disrupt misinformation online” calling for a “Mozilla Information Trust Initiative,” or MITI for short, Business Insider reported.
They further stated the “internet’s ability to power democratic society suffers greatly” because of fabricated stories, such as the “Pope endorsing Donald Trump for the U.S. presidency” or a “dead FBI agent killed in a mysterious fire with information on former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton” – just two examples of stories that turned out to be bogus.
Mozilla’s innovations director, Katharina Borchert, told AFP that the organization was working on tools for Firefox and better online education with media groups, universities, and tech activists.
The “Mozilla Information Trust Initiative” comes just as an automated real-time fact-checking engine dubbed the “bullshit detector” was demonstrated in London.
The group that created the fact-checking engine, Full Fact foundation, is backed by Omidyar and our favorite billionaire tycoon Soros.
The organization stated its software is “capable” of spotting lies in real-time and was used to fact-check a live debate at the House of Commons. How that objective was achieved isn’t clear since it’s likely automated A.I., but algorithms are not 100% accurate.
“As the proponents of propaganda and misinformation become more sophisticated in their use of technology, it is important that fact checkers do not fall behind in our fight against it,” Full Fact said.
“This is an important investment in the future of fact-checking,” Stephen King, of the Omidyar Network, told The Guardian.
“You only have to look at the number of initiatives that have risen up to address this challenge, either by tech companies or other organizations to see how worrying this phenomenon is to so many,” Borchert added.
I worry more about those who want to act as fact checkers, blatantly ignoring propaganda and fake news by the MSM while targeting alternative media and dictating what is and isn’t important for public consumption.
“Whether it’s become a big enough priority is perhaps a better question,” Borchert said, arguing that it was time for rival news organizations to “rally around” each other to confront the spread of fake news.
Then you have Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, planning to launch a crowd-funded news service called Wikitribune to help combat fake news.
So you have all these people, some of whom have even once advocated for a free and open Internet, now advocating for controlling the flow of information under the moniker of “fake news.”
How about all the fake news spread by the CIA and intelligence services called planted propaganda usually for pushing war? Especially as a new report questions the veracity of claims made by a shady firm Cloudstrike that “Russia hacked the election” – how about that fake news?
Putting the future of what we believe in anyone’s hands, let alone artificial intelligence, seems reckless; but a system backed by Soros and Omidyar seems like a dangerously stupid idea that can only lead to a path paved toward Orwellian censorship the likes of which even George Orwell couldn’t have imagined.
Written by @an0nkn0wledge for @ActivistPost.
Is there anything Soros doesn't have his fingers in?
Upvoted. Youtube is at it too. Wont be long until they are all replaced with open source programs.
Sadly, Mozilla is open source LOL
This is terrifying.. If we don't fight back NOW, we will lose our freedom and truth FOREVER.
What bothers me about these massive efforts to control internet content is about their underlying assumptions. Not only are they showing very little respect to individual liberty and responsibility, but they really imply people to be totally incompetent, incapable of being critical about sources and what they read. It is interesting to see why all this happens this late as 2017 and not any earlier. I mean, internet and trolls have been around for a while...
Precisely. We should be encouraging development of critical thinking skills, not shutting down alternative media.
This represents a real fall from grace for Mozilla. They were founded on ideals of open-source development and accessibility.
Look at item 2 on their manifesto:
'The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible.'
https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/about/manifesto/
Surely they'll have to change their manifesto now?
The mainstream media Is the fake news, CIA's controlled CNN and the Rothschild Zionist pedophile protecting BBC In the UK. We all need to keep stop complying with this corrupt system and have nothing to do with companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon and Mozilla.
We must support the people spreading truth like SGT Report, X22 Report, Hagmann & Hagmann, Russianvids and RichiefromBoston plus the many others, peace.
It's time people are aware of the truth
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upvoted, more people need to be talking about this...
And who will fact check the fact checkers..? Note how there is never a scintilla of evidence presented for the 'damage' caused by their alleged fake news. They assume we are all dumb, and their 'special' group will be the arbiter of wisdom. The real fear on awesome display here is the terror of losing control of the narrative of power - their power. Guess what snowflakes - that horse has bolted; there are 7 billion points of view here, and your days are numbered. Get used to it, or disappear under the rocks where you belong.
The death of freedom of speech? Why are the regulators not swarming around the BBC at the moment? Given all the anti-brexit and anti-trump rhetoric when they are suppose to be impartial? Probably because the CEO of the ofcom is an attendee of the bilderberg. If however, they were not left enough i'm sure something would have been said. The system is rotten to the core.
The battle lines are being drawn.
Once I've confirmed this dark association Mozilla has struck with Soros & co, I'll be banishing Firefox from my PCs and urging everyone do the same