We’ve noted that one key reason why pro-Trump fake news proliferated during the presidential election is that, according to Gizmodo sources, Facebook refused to implement standards that would weed out fake news in order to avoid provoking attacks from right-wingers — like Media Research Center chief Brent Bozell — over claims of bias and censorship.
The MRC has finally noticed the debate — and is eager to do anything but discuss its own role in helping create it. Like blaming the so-called “liberal media” for it.
IN a Nov. 18 MRC post, Kyle Drennen writes of “network coverage hyping liberal fears that fake news stories shared on Facebook and across social media fueled Donald Trump’s election victory and actually came to this conclusion: “Perhaps if journalists were more concerned with policing their own liberal bias, the public would be less inclined to seek out alternative news sources.”
Yep, that’s what he wrote.
Kyle complained that “That question was never broached in any of the coverage” of the issue — but Drennen never broached the question of the Bozell-led intimidation of Facebook allegedly being a factor in Facebook refusing to do anything about fake news before the election.
So the “liberal media” is somehow to blame for fake right-wing news. That’s the way logic works at the MRC these days. And about all one can do in response is facepalm.