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Fake News 'Crowding Out' Real News (bbc.co.uk)
The volume of disinformation on the internet is growing so big that it is starting to crowd out real news, the Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee chairman has said. From a report: Tory MP Damian Collins said people struggle to identify "fake news." MPs in their committee report [PDF] said the issue threatens democracy and called for tougher social network regulation. The government said it plans to introduce a requirement for electoral adverts to have a "digital imprint". This would mean that all political communications carried online would need to clearly identify who they were published by. Labour said the government "needs to wake up to the new challenges we face and finally update electoral laws". The report follows the Cambridge Analytica data scandal earlier this year. The London-based data analytics firms and tech giant Facebook were at the centre of a dispute over the harvesting and use of personal data - and whether it was used to influence the outcome of the US 2016 presidential election or the UK Brexit referendum.
The US isn't a democracy.. We are a representative Republic.
What's the difference?
In a democracy, everybody votes on every question directly and usually majority wins.
In a representative Republic, voters pick who they want to represent them. Then those picked go make decisions about the issues.
THIS is how we where founded and why things like the electoral college, Congress and the Senate exist.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Perhaps the system should be defunded when instead of teaching math, science, reading comprehension and critical thinking skills it reverts to 72 genders, a child's feelings must never be hurt (thus no grades), and general narcissism.