MicroGroks
Christmas came early for the ‘Grok in 2020. Uppity NH Leftist (and former State Senator) Jeanne Dietsch announced she was going to debunk GraniteGrok. “Tired of the B.S. from Granite Grok. Write a post in Granite Crock. Win a prize for the best debunk.” Soooo…how is that working out?
We are Yuge fans of Facebook’s third-party fact-checkers. Where third-party looks a lot like Lenin’s Glavlit. The Main Administration for Literary and Publishing Affairs for the Soviet Socialist Republics. An office a few doors down and to the left from Zuckerbergermeisterberger.
In the interest of keeping its army of quarantined creepy human censors (COVID19, RIOTS, FIRES), Facebook has them write algorithms. Crawling digital book-banners that seek out content to flag as fake, false, or in need of ritual progressive purification. But they don’t always work as planned.
The corporate media is a joke, and today’s punchline comes courtesy of CNN’s Daniel Dale. This DC lurker’s Twitter blurb reads, “Reporter for CNN, fact-checking the president and other politicians.” It should read creating “facts” for CNN to report.
