Although the election is over, the problem of fake news isn’t. Apple CEO Tim Cook said it’s time to do something about it.
“All of us technology companies need to create some tools that help diminish the volume of fake news,” Cook said in an interview with the Daily Telegraph on Friday.
"There has to be a massive campaign. We have to think through every demographic," Cook said.
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Much of the fake news controversy has focused on Facebook, where in recent months fabricated stories have become wildly popular. In January, the social media giant rolled out new filtering tools in Germany for users to flag stories that are potentially fake to be reviewed by fact-checkers.
But Cook called for even wider action. “Too many of us are just in the complain category right now and haven't figured out what to do,” he said. "We need the modern version of a public-service announcement campaign. It can be done quickly if there is a will.”
Apple’s Eddy Cue, senior vice president of internet software and services, will be joining Recode’s Peter Kafka at the Code Media Conference tomorrow, where he’ll be asked more about Apple’s position on fake news, especially as the company moves to start making its own TV and movies.
Narcissism ago
Yeh, I am doing something about fake news - stop buying over priced Apple and get a Huawei instead for 1/10 of the price
Psalm100 ago
Huawei is a Chinese communist company, though.
ArthurEdens ago
Cook killed jobs perhaps?
Psalm100 ago
I never thought of that possibility. But who knows?
ArthurEdens ago
Just riffing here, no idea either
salinaslayer ago
start calling him Tim "Spirit" Cook, let's see if it sticks
SturdyGal ago
If you own Apple Stock, write the Investor Relations contact. Cook should not be pontificating in ways that will cost shareholders money. The tide is turning and stockholders want to be on the right side of it.
DeathToMasons ago
World Central Banks are all buying US stocks in the 100's of billions. Apple, Facebook, Tesla, Banking and energy stocks are all purchased in mass. Then their controled media reports the citizens are doing the buying. Total lie. Most of you are new to this Truth business. Pizzagate is the normal behavior. Lie about everything. Murder those who push pack or make too much noise. Rig elections. Falsify terrorist attacks to justify war. Really voting does not work and it is doubtful that Trump will/can do anything. I have been watching the club get away with the most outrageous crimes and accuse their opponents of what they are guilty of, for years. I don't expect this to end. Ever. But we will continue the long defeat. Humans are a failed experiment.
downwithpizzaelite ago
So he's saying we need to get rid of the public school system? Good idea.
redditsuckz ago
Tim Cook is connected to Lisa Jackson and Lisa Jackson is connected to the Podestas and James Alefantis has "Apple" as one of its friends on its website;
http://archive.is/SpRgc
Lisa Jackson has ties to the DOJ;
One of Podesta emails with Lisa Jackson From Apple;
She meets Chris Kirchhoff of the DOJ then Tim Cook CEO of apple.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/55184
And here's what links Cheesebay to the Clinton Foundation, and potentially Comet Ping Pong (which already has multiple links to the Clinton Foundation itself.
https://i.sli.mg/V4iNU8.jpghttp://archive.is/5Tbzf
Here's the image in brief.
"Cheesebay" sells "faulty Hard drives" on eBay. All the reviews are GLOWING in ways that are bizarre gizen that he's self-reportedly selling "junk". Compound in Hawaii has vats/barrels with what looks like the remain of rendering processes (dissolving tissues). There's waek wifi signals coming from underneath the shed that indicate there's something underneath it. "Bif Skipman" runs the business at that address. It's an alias, of an alias, of an alias
E-mails dug out of his gmail account reference a “Richard Windsor” Pseudonym that Lisa P. Jackson was caught using.
She works for the Clinton Foundation. The e-mail is possibly from the Music booker at Comet Ping Pong pizza.
The pizza place owned by the former gay boyfriend of David Brock, the CEO of Correct The Record and the venue for dozens of events for the Hillary campaign staff.
http://archive.is/kAmaZ
Chris Kirchhoff joins DIUx as a partner from the National Security Council, where he served as a lead technology strategist and lead author of the White House’s big data report. Vishaal Hariprasad is the director of threat intelligence at Palo Alto Networks, and is also an Air Force reservist with previous ties to Shah.
Carter plans to further strengthen ties with the private sector by forming a first-of-its-kind DIUx reserve unit under the direction of Douglas Beck, a Navy Reserve Commander who currently serves as a vice president at Apple and reports directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook. Reservists will work in the technology industry when not serving in uniform.
http://archive.is/imylY
To run this new venture, Secretary Carter announced a “partnership-style” leadership team. The team will include Christopher Kirchhoff, a DOD employee currently detailed to the National Security Council (NSC). Chris has been serving as NSC Director for Strategic Planning, and he will be leaving the NSC to return to DOD.
http://archive.is/3JwJa
https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1508824/7326765
VictorDaniels777 ago
Never buying Apple products again. Fuck these elitist control freaks
netneverforget ago
+1
aaronC ago
I'm getting really tired of people saying "all news that I don't like is fake news so you have to trust us to censor news for you"
THE_LIES_OH_THE_LIES ago
Have some real news for tonight!
https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1491256
roundhouse1776 ago
It's hilarious how out of touch he is considering he's the CEO of the one of the most powerful tech companies in the world. The "fake news" narrative was flipped over a month ago and the MSM has mostly stopped using it because it blew up in their faces. Go type "CNN is " into any major search engine and look at the dropdown auto-fill results. It's really funny.
Disgusted-Lurker ago
He's far from out of touch...
It's all by design. The Silicon Valley branch of the CIA hard at work.
leahxpearl ago
link?
thomccc ago
man, you armature journalist are something.
It's just a bad idea to get too confident, arrogant, and godful, so that you arouse the "sheep"
leahxpearl ago
What the hell are you on about?
Psalm100 ago
Somehow I ended up with a double post. The other one had the link to the story:
https://www.recode.net/2017/2/12/14591522/apple-ceo-tim-cook-tech-launch-campaign-fake-news-fact-check
leahxpearl ago
thank you
2impendingdoom ago
you can tell what fake news and what is real news by who is cooped up: Manning, Assange, Snowden, and who is dead, Hastings, Spiers, Petersen, Rich, etc ....
THE_LIES_OH_THE_LIES ago
Just fyi. Snowden is alive because the CIA wanted to use him to destroy the organization with the young coders at the NSA who learned what the CIA was doing with respect to raping humanity and the world and all. There is an internal war in the government right now, and neither side is with the people.
ArthurEdens ago
Not quite following. CIA used snowden to destroy young nsa members who found out about cia crime?
2impendingdoom ago
that confuses me too, it really makes no sense at all. Why does snowden need to be alive for the CIA to destroy the NSA? The NSA could easily release whatever the hell they want, they don't need snowden. and usually the lies oh the lies links to a baby eating ancient egyptians post so credibility is thin
Sandy008 ago
If he wants to end fake news, he needs to help destroy the corporate media giants. Independent media is the only way to get the truth anymore. This is nothing more than a massive assault on the First Amendment.
zlomsocz ago
coining information as "fake" gives currently existing news platforms the ability to unilaterally inform the public on a need-to-know basis, with information the news organization deems truthful or not. Its a bold effort to control the narrative. Facebook and google were bold early in october2016/november, saying that fake news had little effect of the outcome of the election and dismissed cries from the clinton camp that there was anything more. As noted three days ago George Soros bought huge stake in Alphabet/Google, and facebook and google have now changed their respective tunes, and offered fake news filtering services to French users during the current/ last election cycle.
and now its coming to the US. I think this will backfire, in its intended purpose. Americans are waking up slowly.
fartyshorts ago
Yes, I hope the continued censorship will just drive people away from those services.