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Anyone who\u2019s been to college in the Wikipedia era, especially anything above the associate degree level, knows that\u2019s the last reference resource professors will accept from students when writing research papers.<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s because Wikipedia, which is kind of, sort of, self-edited contains gigabytes of false, phony, or erroneous information. The site isn\u2019t peer-reviewed by any means, and it\u2019s just not a reliable source of information.<\/span><\/p>\n And yet, a new censorship tool being introduced by Facebook will intentionally or inadvertently rely heavily on Wikipedia for the establishment of \u2018credible\u2019 news and information sites.<\/span><\/p>\n Breitbart Tech<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a> notes:<\/span><\/p>\n Facebook received a lot of attention for overt censorship last week. But the social network is engaging in covert suppression of independent media too \u2014 most recently with its introduction of \u201cClick-Gap,\u201d a way of favoring established websites and suppressing non-established ones.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Here\u2019s how this latest bald-faced censorship scheme will work.<\/span><\/p>\n Click-Gap<\/a><\/strong><\/span> will work to penalize news and information sites that have yet to establish \u201cauthority\u201d outside of Facebook, where \u2018authority\u2019 is assessed based on the number of clicks sites get from sources other than the platform, like establishment media sources.<\/span><\/p>\n Facebook\u2019s \u201cVP of integrity\u201d and \u201cVP of news integrity\u201d officially explain it this way<\/strong><\/span><\/a> on the platform\u2019s blog:<\/span><\/p>\n Click-Gap looks for domains with a disproportionate number of outbound Facebook clicks compared to their place in the web graph. This can be a sign that the domain is succeeding on News Feed in a way that doesn\u2019t reflect the authority they\u2019ve built outside it and is producing low-quality content.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n This is huge because Facebook has become a primary traffic driver for new websites of all kinds, including, of course, news<\/em> sites. But, as Breitbart Tech<\/em> reports, Click-Gap appears to have been designed to promote websites that managed to build up their readership and following before social media became a thing. So the system will naturally favor the older, establishment media outlets like CNN<\/em>, Washington Post<\/em>, The New York Times<\/em>, etc. \u2014 some of the biggest drivers of fake news in the era of POTUS Donald Trump. (Related: POTUS Trump blasts \u2018illegal\u2019 social media BIAS and censorship, vows actions<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n Of course, this is precisely the kind of scenario the mainstream media outlets want<\/strong><\/span><\/a>; anything they can do to shut out independent media competition, the better.<\/span><\/p>\n As for how Wikipedia factors into all of this, Breitbart Tech <\/em>notes that Click Gap will favor the establishment press in another way.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOne of the largest sources for links and citations of news sources is Wikipedia, the Leftist-dominated \u2018online encyclopedia,\u2019\u201d Breitbart noted. \u201cBut conservative sources\u2026are frequently blacklisted as \u2018unreliable\u2019 on the site.\u201d Hence, they are not used, which is ironic given the fact that Wikipedia itself is considered \u2018unreliable\u2019 by academia using primarily mainstream<\/em> media sources.<\/span><\/p>\n Facebook would be working in tandem with another big tech giant that also loves to censor conservative content: Google, the world\u2019s No. 1 search engine. Can you guess which pages Google produces the most when it comes to searches?<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s right \u2014 Wikipedia pages. In fact, these frequently appear at the top of Google search pages, making them much more frequently selected by users. And again, since Wikipedia itself feeds so many other mainstream news sites, this, too, will factor into the sites that Click Gap and its underlying algorithm will favor.<\/span><\/p>\n Anything to crush conservative and independent media because the establishment media cannot compete with us on its own.<\/span><\/p>\n Case in point: CNN<\/em> is now reporting<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that Democrats in Congress are \u2018training\u2019 themselves to appear on Fox News<\/em><\/span>, because it is a ratings behemoth compared to, well, CNN<\/em>, and the rest of the joke cable news networks.<\/span><\/p>\n It must have hurt to report that.<\/span><\/p>\n Read more about the rising censorship of the tech giants at TechGiants.news<\/a> and Censorship.news<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Sources include:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n CNN.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Breitbart.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nConspiring to shut out alternative, independent voices with an encyclopedia of propaganda<\/h2>\n