Tech giant REDDIT CEO caught creating 'FAKE NEWS.'

Oh look another tech giant REDDIT caught creating 'FAKE NEWS.'  According to obama the American public is supposed to be able to implicitly trust major news networks, prime-time cable news channels, and tech giants such as Reddit-Facebook-Google-Twitter-YouTube.

Sadly, yet another member of the tech giants has been caught creating 'FAKE NEWS' for the sole purpose of propagating his own liberal agenda.  Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has confessed to modifying the posts, creating 'FAKE NEWS' which disparaged Reddit users on the most visible Donald Trump-supporting "subreddit" community.

 The Reddit 'FAKE NEWS' story begins earlier this week, when The New York Times published a report on Comet Ping Pong, a Washington DC pizza place that a false news item on social media had pegged as the center of a child-abuse ring run by Hillary Clinton and her campaign head John Podesta.

Not liking that Queen Hillary and her lackeys were being picked on Reddit took steps to shut down the "r/Pizzagate" subreddit community, which had the stated goal of proving the existence of a heinous crime centering on Comet Ping Pong.

The move to shut down r/Pizzagate proved controversial to users of "r/The_Donald," Reddit's most popular community for supporters of Donald Trump. Those users repeatedly left deep heartfelt comments expressing their displeasure.

 

On Wednesday afternoon eagle eyed members of "The_Donald" noticed that their posts had been changed without their knowledge or consent. Instead of spelling out their disagreement with Reddit's CEO Steve Huffman, the posts were now mysteriously filled with unwanted frightful expletives. Which, unfairly were now were directed at the moderators of the "The_Donald" community.

Upset, and rightly so, "The _Donald" members sought out Reddit leadership an demanded answers as to why their web-posts were being modified or otherwise censored,  A swift investigation revealed that Steve Huffman CEO of Reddit was illegally and unfairly creating 'FAKE NEWS.'   

 

Caught creating 'FAKE NEWS' Steve Huffman CEO of Reddit posted the following comment, confessing that it was him personally who was illegally changing posts and creating 'FAKE NEWS.'

"Hey Everyone,

Yep. I messed with the “f**k u/spez ” comments, replacing "spez" with r/the_donald mods for about an hour. It’s been a long week here trying to unwind the r/pizzagate stuff. As much as I try to maintain a good relationship with you all, it does get old getting called a pedophile constantly. As the CEO, I shouldn’t play such games, and create 'FAKE NEWS' it’s all fixed now.  Since I was caught I most assuredly won’t do this again.

F**k u/spez."

Sadly, Huffman CEO of Reddit has single handedly, with his emotionally abusive tactics lost the trust of one of Reddit's most trustworthy subreddit" community groups "The_Donald." A group which has had nothing but the best possible relationships with Reddit's management.  The trust of millions of subreddit" community members has been betrayed by Reddit CEO Steve Huffman maybe never to be returned...

Do Not Trust the Main-Stream-Media for Truth or Accurate News Stories

 

The major news networks, prime-time cable news channels, united with the tech giants Facebook-Google-Twitter-YouTube have all declared an all out war on 'Fake News.'  Because after all they are the gold standard for excellence and truth in modern journalism. They are by their own assertion the very 4th pillar of Democracy. 

 

Their assertions is that if the public get their news from any one else they are being mislead.  The real truth of the matter is that all of the above news organizations were involved to some degree in supporting  the following court case. 

 
 

In 1997 Jane Akre and Steve Wilson began work on a story about bovine growth hormone (BGH), a controversial substance manufactured by Monsanto Corporation. The investigative story was to be broadcast in several segments.  The news story was highlighting the adverse health risks related to BGH.


Initially,  the station intended to run the series as is, however after FOX News was contacted by, the multi-national conglomerate, Monsanto, Fox News halted the story pending rewrites.  

 Akre and Wilson were instructed by Fox News to make revisions to the story, which were patently FALSE. When the two producers balked Fox News ordered the pair to write a story in which all the facts were removed and replaced with out right LIES.   With their backs to the wall the pair threatened to go to the FCC. Fox News terminated the pair immediately. 


Akre and Wilson sued the Fox News station for wrongful termination.   A Florida jury on 8-18-00 twelve to zero  ruled that Akre was wrongfully fired by Fox News when she refused to broadcast, in the jury’s vernacular  

“A totally FALSE story with no basis in TRUTH.” 

The jury added that Akre did indeed deserved protection under Florida’s whistle blower law awarding her a sum total of $425,000 settlement.


FOX News appealed the case, supported by five Main Stream Media (MSM) outlets who filed briefs of Amici Curiae supporting FOX’s position: Belo Corporation, Cox Television, Inc., Gannett Co., Inc., Media General Operations, Inc., and Post-Newsweek Stations, Inc. 

 The Florida Second District Court of Appeals on 2-14-03  unanimously overturned the court case and the financial settlement awarded to Akre. 

The Court held that Akre’s threat to report the station’s actions to the FCC did not deserve protection under Florida’s whistle blower statute, because Florida’s whistle blower law states that an employer must violate a  “law, rule, or regulation.” 



The Florida Court of Appeals unanimously asserted that FOX News did NOT break any laws...

"There is no rules or laws against distorting, falsifying, out right lying in the news in the United States of America."


Using a perniciously twisted interpretation of FCC rules, the Florida Appeals court asserted that the FCC policy against using out right LIES in reporting the news does not rise to the water mark of a “law, rule, or regulation,” it was simply a “policy.”

The court stated...

"It is up to the station whether or not it wants to report honestly. The station can lie if it wants too..."



During their appeal, FOX News asserted that...

 "There are no written rules against distorting news in the media. They argued that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right to lie or deliberately falsify news reports on public airwaves."

Fox attorneys did not dispute Akre’s claim that they pressured her to broadcast a FALSE story, they simply maintained that it was their right to LIE  to the American public. 

After the appeal verdict  WTVT general manager Bob Linger rapaciously muttered, “It’s vindication for WTVT, and we’re very pleased. It’s the case we’ve been making for two years. She told the truth and because of that She never had a legal claim."

 "We can lie and lie and lie and no one, not the courts, not the government, not even the public can do anything about it...”


 So, when the major news networks, Primetime cable news channels, and tech giants Facebook-Google-Twitter-YouTube purport that only 'THEY' are capable of disseminating real news remember this court case.  Remember also that all of the Major News Networks, the tech giants, and  those expected to have Journalistic ethics supported FOX News in their 'supposed' legal right to produce false news stories, which they KNEW to be misleading lies.