Newspapers don't do much fact checking first or they'd not be in this mess.Newspapers edit and decide what is published so yes they are responsible. Social media does not edit and review everything that is published. They have algorithms that flag, copywrited, vulgar, or dangerous material so there are some filters in place but it is a very different medium than a newspaper or magazineScuze moi, but the Surveillance Media have data scientists, algorithms and AI for analyzing all of this content. The only issue is them actually spending money to control content and then forgoing the profits that the monetization of the deleted toxic behavior would have generated.
USMB has mods that delete comments from users who cross the line. We do not see the Doxxing and calls to punch teenager in the face or to get them expelled from school here. The Mega Platforms enable and allow this hideous, illegal behavior...and actually PROFIT from it.
The Surveillance Media are not Too Big To Be Accountable.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand you didn't address the point at all.
That being, *HOW* is a medium responsible for what someone writes on it? If Picaro spray-paints "Injuns go home" on a wall ---- shall we blame the wall? For "not being accountable"?![]()
Is a newspaper responsible for the "letters to the editor" and classified ads it publishes? Yes and Yes.
If Picaro sprays on a wall, he has vandalized the wall - not the same as if the building owner provided the spray paint and stood back and watched.
You lose.
And we're still waiting for any inkling of what "this mess" they're "in" and/or what facts "they" didn't check.
Been going three days unanswered.
If all y'all put together can't come up with an answer to that how do you expect an attorney to do it?
I'll have to assume you and JO and whoever else have been frantically crawling the web looking for any evidence of what y'all thought the "media said" that was libelous, have been unable to find anything for three days, and now, having realized things were not what you thought they were, your response is to double down on what you know you can't prove.
Which is, sadly, typical around this joint.