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Donald Trump misfortune perpetrator of feign news: UN Special Rapporteur
- Updated: December 27, 2018
The problem of feign news emanating from governments should be lonesome by journalists, a rapporteur said
US President Donald Trump is a “worst perpetrator” of misinformation on a Internet, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion David Kaye has said.
“Governments are genuine offenders when it comes to disinformation… In my possess country, a US, a misfortune perpetrator of feign information is a President of a US,” Kaye told Digital Rights Monitor website in an talk published on Wednesday.
The problem of feign news emanating from governments should be lonesome by journalists, a rapporteur said.
Platforms such as Google, Facebook or Twitter can assistance a broader quarrel opposite disinformation – bots, unfamiliar interference… – though should not mislay content, he said.
“The platforms, we think, can do things that are some-more technical as prolonged as they are not evaluating content. There are things they can do. They can’t only zap it and say, ‘This is feign news, it’s off a platform’.”
According to Kaye, platforms should concentration on shortening spam and bot accounts rather than on policing content. And even bots are “tricky, since there are good bots and bad bots”.
Trump has mostly called a US media as a “enemy of a people” and frequently criticizes several outlets for swelling “fake news”.
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