Reason vs The Beast: Four Centuries of British Establishment #FakeNews

‘On 30 January 2017, the British House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee launched an inquiry into “fake news”, one preparatory to the expected issuance of guidelines for new legislation. Damian Collins MP, the Committee’s chairman, has a history of having called for news to carry social media stamps of approval for reliability. That latter sentence is not my assertion but the observation of the leading Dutch broadsheet, NRC Handelsblad.
The committee chairman’s track record of advocating the unprecedented (particularly for Britain) practice of quasi-officially approving news as correct or fake, together with his past career with the Conservative Party’s and Home Office’s long-term partner advertising brand, forms much of the reason why independent media outlets like the UK Column are sceptical about the inquiry’s agenda.’
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