Robert Parry — What to Do About ‘Fake News’

It's not too difficult to see where the furor over "fake news" is going from the direction that the use of "terrorism" took post 9/11. The push for combatting terror result in the indefinite suspension of constitutional rights and civil liberties, and the charging of domestic dissenters with "terrorism."

Now the furor over "fake news" has emboldened the government to suppress news, news organizations and news reporting that it does not like.

A pushback is coming to the Internet’s success in giving the world access to diverse opinions and dissenting information. Politicians, mainstream media and technology giants are taking aim at what they call “fake news,” reports Robert Parry.

Consortium News
What to Do About ‘Fake News’

Robert Parry

Michel Bauwens — Towards a Global Commons of Truth

Privately funded new organization are funded by advertisers and influenced by them. Publicly funded news organizations are government controlled and subject to political pressure. News organizations funded by the public report to the public without influence.

P2P Foundation
Towards a Global Commons of Truth
Michel Bauwens

Guardian lets public contribute to shaping the news

A newspaper has thrown open its office doors, let the readers stride in, and invited them to peer over reporters’ shoulders — digitally, at least.The website of the left-leaning Guardian daily is publishing its ‘newslist’ — a schedule of stories its journalists are working on — and asking readers to help shape the coverage by contacting its reporters on Twitter....

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The Guardian turns readers into newshounds

by Agence France-Presse

This may seem like a small and rather insignificant event, but it is actually a big step forward toward the extension of open source, distributed systems, interactivity, and social networking into other area than the Internet and IT. This is the future of business models, and smart companies are going to recognize it. Those that don't will go the way of the buggy whip makers.