The New York Times wants Facebook to start designating pro-life content as fake news.
In a column for the Times, Rossalyn Warren argued that Facebook should censor pro-life sites – claiming they only spread lies and innuendo about abortion. Warren tries reinforcing her claims by citing the George Soros-funded organization, Media Matters.
Part of Warren’s rationale for silencing pro-life stories is the fact that people freely choose to share them.
“People on Facebook engage with anti-abortion content more than abortion-rights content at a ‘disproportionate rate,'” she lamented. Because of Facebook algorithms, that means “more people see” pro-life content than pro-abortion content.
Warren also complained about Facebook’s profit incentive – insisting the social networking site do more than make it unprofitable to share news stories that repeatedly get censored. She claimed that that wasn’t enough to stop fake ideological news because, apparently, the people writing it, blindly believe their content.
“The incentive for the people who write content for anti-abortion news sites and Facebook pages is ideological, not financial,” she explained. “Anti-abortion, anti-science content isn’t being written by spammers hoping to make money, but by ordinary people who are driven by religious or political beliefs. Their aim isn’t to profit from ads. It’s to convince readers of their viewpoint: that abortion is morally wrong…”
According to The New York Times, sincerely-written columns from a pro-life perspective not only constitute fake news, but it’s also profoundly troubling they are more popular than their pro-choice counterparts.
AAN Staff
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