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US466 - Public Organization to Fact-Check Political Ads
| Require that political ads be approved by a public fact-checking organization | |
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Description
Political candidates should not be able to broadcast lies to the American public. Rather than sifting through this meretricious propapanda after-the-fact and trying to correct false impressions created in voters' minds, we should have a politically-independent public organization fact-check ads before they're aired or printed.
Arguments
Also, the news has to stop referencing twitter posts as a creditable news source.
I have long championed legislation to outlaw deceptive practices that target voters with intentionally false information.
Source: bencardin.com
Source: bencardin.com
Counterarguments
If you think that an organization given power to decide what political advertisements are allowed to air would stay "politically-independent" for longer than ten seconds after its creation, you haven't been paying attention for the past few decades. Giving one organization the power to enforce its opinions about what the "truth" and the "facts" are by banning all political speech it considers outside those boundaries is just setting up a system whereby one party would have the power to simply shut down the other party's political messaging entirely.
Ideally the media and the people would handle fact-finding sufficiently.
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Discussion
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by SparkyJP
on Sep 6
The Media is Bought
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by GregOrr
on Sep 5
They do it successfully in Canada
Mr SeeMore over at DailyKos says "Canada's Radio Act requires that 'a licenser may not broadcast ... any false or misleading news.' As a result of that law, Canadians enjoy high quality news coverage, including the kind of foreign affairs and investigative journalism that flourished in this country before Ronald Reagan abolished the "Fairness Doctrine" in 1987. In the Unites States, Fox News and talk radio, the sock puppets of billionaires and corporate robber barons, have become the masters of propaganda and distortion on the public airwaves. Fox News' notoriously biased and dishonest coverage of the Wisconsin's protests is a prime example of the brand of news coverage Canada has smartly avoided."
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