LEAKED DOCS: DAVID BROCK OF FAKE NEWS “MEDIA MATTERS” CONSPIRES WITH FACEBOOK & GOOGLE TO SHUT DOWN CONSERVATIVE MEDIA

 

 

 

 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Hard-left political activist David Brock,
founder of Media Matters – the father of “Fake News” – is working with
co-conspirators Google and Facebook to implement a strategy designed to
ban conservative and libertarian websites, including Infowars.com.
This
is especially a problem given attempts being made by Eric Schmidt, the
founder of the multinational conglomerate Alphabet Inc., the parent
company of Google, to cozy up to the Trump administration.
On Dec. 14, 2016, Schmidt was included in a group of prominent tech industry executives that met with then President-elect Donald Trump in a much-publicized meeting.

On Jan. 17, 2017, Politico reported that Schmidt
was sited at an unannounced visit to Trump Tower, where he lunched
privately with Jared Kushner, Trump’s real estate magnate son-in-law
married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka in 2009, who has emerged to be named a
Senior Advisor to his father-in-law in the White House
In briefing book entitled “Media Matters, The Top Watchdog Against Fake News and Propaganda: Transforming the Media Landscape” (obtained by the Free Beacon)
that Brock published privately in January to solicit donors, Brock
asserts in the first sentence, “The onslaught of well-funded right-wing
media brings with it significant challenges.”
This first sentence
telegraphs that by creating and advancing the narrative of “Fake News,”
Brock is trying to launch what the hard-left calls “a meme.”
That
“meme” or theme is designed to discredit news media that dare publish
conservative views differing from the hard-left news reported by CNN and
MSNBC, as well as increasingly by the New York Times – the object of
several recent President Trump tweet attacks.
On the first page,
Brock targets Breitbart.com as having received “millions in funding from
extremist billionaires close to the Trump administration,” while
providing “a nexus point for the so-called alt-right (the newest
branding for white nationalism, anti-Semitism, and misogyny) to exploit
vulnerabilities through the media landscape.”
Note here that Brock
is also creating a narrative – adding to the meme – that the
“alt-right” (another term created by Brock and the hard-left to attack
conservatives) are haters – characterized as “white nationalists,
anti-Semites, and misogynists” – the new hate tags Brock and his
co-conspirators on the hard-left intend to apply (along with the
accusation of being “racists”) on any news agency that refuses to
uncritically parrot a hard-left ideological interpretation of current
events.
Brock leaves no doubt that Google and Facebook are his
co-conspirators in advancing the “Fake News” meme against news
organizations like Infowars.com.  Consider Media Matter’s clearly
articulated strategy that Brock lays out on page two of his briefing
book:
“Over the next four years, Media Matters will focus on achieving the following outcomes:

“Serial
misinformers and right-wing propagandists inhabiting everything from
social media to the highest levels of government will be exposed.
“Internet
and social media platforms, like Google and Facebook, will no longer
uncritically and without consequence host and enrich fake news sites and
propagandists.
“Toxic alt-right social
media-fueled harassment campaigns that silence dissent and poison our
national discourse will be punished and halted.”  (Bold type in the original document)

Clearly,
Brock intends to continue directing Media Matters as a hard-left attack
machine with no respect for the First Amendment that will inevitably
target news organizations like Infowars.com not only to shut
Infowars.com down, but also to punish Alex Jones and all others
associated with Infowars.com
On Nov. 14, 2016, six days after Donald J. Trump was elected president, the New York Times reported Google
announced a policy that would ban websites “that peddle fake news” from
using its online advertising service.  Hours later, Facebook updated
the language in its Facebook Audience Network policy amending the policy
to specify that Facebook “will not display ads in sites that show
misleading or legal content, to include fake news sites.”
On Jan. 25, 2007, Recode.com reported
that Google, since declaring the policy against “fake news,” has banned
200 publishers from using its AdSense network, an ad placement service
that automatically places text and display ads on participating sites
based on audience characteristics. Recode further reported Google
declined to provide a listing of the banned sites.
On Jan. 26, 2017, Lachan Markay reported
in the Washington Free Beacon that Media Matters had launched a
petition campaign during the 2016 presidential campaign aimed at
pressuring Facebook into prohibiting “Fake News” website to accept Media
Matters goal of getting Facebook to “adjust its model to stem the flow
of damaging fake news from its platform pages.”
In his briefing
book, Brock acknowledged that while Google was a relatively easy sale on
“fake news,” Facebook was a much harder sale, with Mark Zuckerberg
initially calling the notion that “fake news is a problem” is “crazy.”
So what did Media Matters do?
“In
November, we launched a campaign pressuring Facebook to: 1) acknowledge
the problem of the proliferation of fake news on Facebook and its
consequences for our democracy and 2) commit to taking action to fix the
problem.”
Brock reported that “as a result of our push for accountability,” Facebook was responsive to both requests. 
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