Combating Fake News

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— Glynn Wilson (@GlynnWilson1) July 8, 2019

Generally
The state of affairs of Fake News is God-awful.

There is widespread disagreement about what statements and news are Fake News and what statements and news are not Fake News.

It is unclear whether the widespread disagreement can or will be lessened.

Any purported effort to combat Fake News entails taking positions about particular statements and news being Fake News and other statements and news not being Fake News.

Such an effort will likely be ignored or rejected by those who have different views about what statements and news are and are not Fake News.

Currently, it seems that few persons are subject to persuasion that their views about what is or is not Fake News are incorrect.

Notwithstanding the above God-awful state of affairs, efforts are being made to persuade others about Fake News, such as the above effort of New American Journal.

Persuasion requires getting messaging into the eyes, ears and brains of others whom one is seeking to persuade.

Repetition of messaging aids in achieving persuasion.

Money is of help because getting messaging out to other persons is not free of cost and effort.

Money is viewed as extremely valuable, even near indispensable, in getting messaging out to other persons. The importance of money is evidenced by the New American Journal soliciting donation in its above effort.

Human effort also helps significantly in getting messaging out to battle Fake News.

My efforts
I consider Trump a destructive purveyor of Fake News. I believe many of his supporters do not think Trump is a destructive purveyor of Fake News.

I use Twitter and my blogs to battle against Trump's Fake News and against his supporters who go along with his Fake News.

I retweet Trump's tweets and, in my retweets, I contradict or negate what Trump says.

I use the hashtag #alpolitics on my tweets.

Twitter has shadow banned me several times. https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2018/08/shadow-banned-by-twitter.html

Earlier today I discovered I was again shadow banned by Twitter.

As I explain in the foregoing link, a Twitter user can be unaware of shadow banning because the user sees the user's tweets, but other Twitter users do not see the tweets. This includes, in my case, that other Twitter users who go to the #alpolitics hashtag do not see my tweets.

I am uncertain of the extent to which  the shadow banned user's tweets are not seen by "mentions" in the user's tweet and are not seen in the Tweeter feeds of Twitter followers of the user.

Twitter rules say, "we will inform you about actions taken against your account and why."

I have not been expressly notified by Twitter of when I have been shadow banned and have only learned of the shadow banning by being in a different Twitter account and not seeing my tweets.

Twitter has lifted my shadow banning after short periods of time (as short as after one day). The shadow banning that I discovered earlier today seems to have been lifted now.

Given the extremely limited reach my tweets have, and the huge megaphone that Trump has for his lies and Fake News, I am highly motivated to be prolific in my tweeting to contradict and negate Trump and his supporters.

Because current tweets have much better chance of being seen by other Twitter users compared to tweets that have been shadow banned, shadow banning is an impairment of my ability to communicate. I an unable to know what I did that triggered shadow banning in the instances I have been shadow banned. If there were specific rules that triggered shadow banning, I would endeavor vigilance in order to avoid shadow banning.

As is, I will continue tweeting largely as I have been tweeting, and suffer whatever shadow banning occurs.

Collective efforts
New American Journal's effort to combat Fake News seeks to be a collective effort based on donations.

I urge a collective effort to battle Fake News using organized direct tweeting to fellow citizens. See http://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2019/02/organized-direct-tweeting-campaign-tool.html.