The segment is titled “Defending Truth;” and the WEF described it as, “Global trust in institutions is eroding, reflected in how 40% of people consistently trust news. Empowering Internet users with media information literacy, advancing information integrity and enhancing transparency are vital for addressing the spread of false information. What actions do stakeholders need to take to preserve a healthy trust ecosystem?”
The speakers included:
- Vera Jourová, Vice-President for Values and Transparency, European Commission
- Meredith Kopit Levien, President and Chief Executive Officer, The New York Times Company
- Mark Leonard, Director, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)
- Jeanne Bourgault, President and Chief Executive Officer, Internews
- Emma Tucker, Editor-in-Chief, The Wall Street Journal
In the opening seconds of the chat Leonard stated, “the truth is the first casualty of war.”
During these talks Tucker lamented the loss of control over “the facts,” she called them. She added:
I think there’s a very specific challenge for the legacy brands, like the New York Times and like the Wall Street Journal. If you go back really not that long ago, as I say, we owned the news. We were the gatekeepers, and we very much owned the facts as well.
If it said it in the Wall Street Journal, 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.
Later in the chat Jourová called the rise of “disinformation” a “security threat,” and suggested that “it was part of the Russian military doctrine that they will start information war, and we are in it now.”
Disinformation is a very powerful tool. In the EU we are focusing on improving of the system where the people will get the facts right. We don’t speak about opinions. We are not correcting anyone’s opinions or language. This is about the facts.
SEE: World Economic Forum ‘Press Freedom’ Panel Calls For Algorithmic Censorship Of Independent Media
Moreover, as with everything, money is the root of life’s problems; and so it came as no surprise when Leonard stammered when he asked Tucker, “how do you see the challenges going forward in terms of making truth profitable?” Tucker explained that running their operations at the WSJ, for example, are expensive, but did note that with AI it will most likely truncate the size of the newsrooms. By her own concession she did not have much of a good answer, explaining that subscriptions have supplanted some of this but consigned that the WSJ is “expensive,” and therefore most people simply are not going to pay because they can’t or won’t.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
John 17:17, 18:37
Anything contrary to the word of God (the King James Bible) and sound doctrine is not truth. Simple. Period. Done. Over. Out. These delusional hacks hate the truth; and like all things, “For the love of money is the root of all evil” (1 Timothy 6:10); and like Balaam, will speak lies and vanity if the price is right, which is all the news media is anymore.
[15] Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; [16] But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet. [17] These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. 2 Peter 2:15-17
These people are just blowing smoke. The fact is that their parent companies who own them still control the strong majority of the information we see and hear daily. Over 90% of multimedia in the U.S. is controlled and owned by just six corporations; and these subsidiaries are just the ones admitted to be directly owned and controlled. Let us not play stupid and be naive to the fact that most of the remaining 10% is contracted off the books, and are in bed with these companies and corporations. Influencers, and Hollywood and bad actors paid-off to peddle propaganda on social media is nothing new. So, if you don’t consume the mainstream nonsense, then the handlers will pick you off when you watch the so-called decentralized and independent media, even though they peddle the same narratives and appeal to authority.
WebFX has a really good breakdown of who these six corporations are just how much they own. But even their chart is not accurate, as it is does not take into account big-tech whatsoever, and all the entities they own and pay-off, on top of the censorship, algorithms, and shadow-banning.
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And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
1 John 5:19
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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“These people are just blowing smoke.” I have to disagree with Jacob this time; they mean business!
While shoveling lots of snow this week, I’ve been reminded time and time again, that “nobody can be this evil and be human.” I believe He’s right…AGAIN! Pack your spiritual suitcases, brethren; we’re out of here in the very near future!
I said they are blowing smoke because they are acting like they have lost control of the narrative, when they really haven’t when you consider the near-total control they possess of that media, and most of these alt groups are just paid shills in the big media’s back pockets.