"The proposal calls for platforms to pay into a trust fund, which would in turn pay for news organizations to establish robust fact-checking services."
Nightmare idea. Let's address no actual problems but create lots of new ones!
Nightmare idea. Let's address no actual problems but create lots of new ones!
https://twitter.com/lisahmacpherson/status/1363967237724516357
A lot of media reformers are ripping off the mask and asserting they just don't want private media outlets anymore. Their view is newsgathering should be financed and fact-checked by the government.
As @RrjohnR has written extensively, advertising has been a key mechanism to prevent the control of private media by the state since the early 1800s. Are people really that naive they imagine media that is nearly all state-funded will be a check on state power?
A lot of people think they are being clever by pointing to the BBC as a useful example of government financed press. Saudi Arabia, China and North Korea also have government financed press.
The point is diversity of funding, not subsidies.
The point is diversity of funding, not subsidies.
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