This is a little thing they call “weaponized empathy.” The royals do it as often with as much gusto as their American ruling class counterparts.
“Tech companies urged to act on Princess of Wales conspiracy theorists” (“urged” by whom, one might ask?; none other than our old friends at the Centre for Countering Digital Hate) (emphasis added):
Tech companies are coming under pressure to take action on conspiracy theorists using their services to spread false information about the Princess of Wales.
The Princess’s withdrawal from public life in December prompted speculation and conspiracy theories on social media about her health and whereabouts.
Imran Ahmed, founder of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, said that social media can provide a “distorted lens on the world” for some users and called on tech companies to clean up their act.
“Social media companies need to be much more transparent, accountable and responsible in how they design the algorithms that promote disinformation, conspiracy theories, and nonsense over the facts,” he told The Telegraph.
“There are algorithms which advantage conspiracy theories, negative emotions and hate. They are part of the reason why we so frequently see conspiracy theories and why they’re becoming normalised.
“The net effect of it is that it makes finding the truth almost impossible on social media*.”
Mr Ahmed’s call comes amid increased public awareness of false information spreading online about the Princess of Wales.
*What truth, and from where? The Palace itself has consistently lied about the whereabouts and status of the Princess, including releasing an absurdly photoshopped image depicting her as a tampered-with proof-of-life thing that backfired spectacularly.
Anyway, this is a doozy.
It’s difficult to begin to know where to start with this censorious mess. First of all, social media platforms are not publishers; they do not publish anything. They provide the platform to allow average people to express themselves to an audience they would otherwise never have — the true reason, obviously, that the elites exert so much censorship pressure on them.
Related: Elite Media Propagandist Cries at Davos: ‘We Owned the News’
Via Reclaim the Net (emphasis added):
In a year marked by dwindling public trust in key institutions and heralded by the theme “Rebuilding Trust” at the World Economic Forum’s annual Davos assembly, Emma Tucker, the Wall Street Journal’s Editor in Chief, has called for a reevaluation of how traditional media operates. Recalling a point when the mainstream press was the chief adjudicator of information and facts, she highlighted its demise that came with the rise of alternative media platforms.
Tucker, during a Davos panel supposedly dedicated to the preservation of truth, offered a lament for the era when the press held exclusive dominance over news and facts.
“If you go back not that long ago, We owned the news. We were the gatekeepers, and we very much owned the facts as well,” Tucker said.
“If it said it in the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times, then that was a fact. Nowadays, people can go to all sorts of different sources for the news, and they’re much more questioning about what we’re saying.”…
“So it’s no longer good enough for us to say this is what happened, or this is the news. We almost have to explain our working. So readers expect to understand how we source stories, they want to know how we go about getting stories,” she continued.
Second, what is this “respect her privacy” tripe? These people are the biggest welfare queens — literally — on the planet. They have forever forfeited any claims to privacy when they crowned themselves royalty.
Continuing via The Telegraph:
Linda Yaccarino, chief executive of X, formerly Twitter, posted on the site that the Princess had delivered news of her diagnosis “with her signature grace”.
“Her request for privacy, to protect her children and allow her to move forward [without endless speculation) seems like a reasonable request to respect,” said Ms Yaccarino.
A spokesman for Meta, which owns both Facebook and WhatsApp, said the company works with 80 third-party fact checking organisations.
Posts rated as false by these organisations have their reach reduced so fewer users can see them, the spokesman added.
Lastly, didn’t America literally fight a founding war for the sacred right to dismiss with prejudice any concern over these so-called “royals’” welfare? Who are these people to demand that I or you, Americans, respect anything whatsoever about these inbred people?
I don’t have kings or queens or princesses or duchesses of whatever, thanks. And I won’t be made to voluntarily forfeit hard-fought rights on the grounds of weaponized empathy. Let her vast wealth and access to the best oncological care on the planet console her.
