If Bill Clinton had his way, there would be an Internet agency created by the U.S. government or United Nations to debunk malicious rumors that originate and spread online.
“I think it would be a legitimate thing to do,” Clinton told CNBC in an interview that aired Friday. He was interviewed alongside Mati Kochavi, a cybersecurity entrepreneur.
But Clinton added that if such an agency were ever created, it would have to be “totally transparent” about where its funding came from and would have to be independent.
“Let’s just say the U.S. did it. It would have to be an independent federal agency that no president could countermand or anything else because people wouldn’t think you were just censoring the news and giving a different falsehood out,” he said.
“That is, it would be like, I don’t know, National Public Radio or BBC or something like that, except it would have to be really independent and they would not express opinions, and their mandate would be narrowly confined to identifying relevant factual errors,” he said.
Clinton said the agency would have to have citations so it could be checked in case it made a mistake.
“Somebody needs to be doing it, and maybe it’s a worthy expenditure of taxpayer money,” he said. “But if it’s a government agency in a traditional sense, it would have no credibility whatever, particularly with a lot of the people who are most active on the Internet.”
(Source: Fox News)
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I agree. The US government needs to counter the propaganda coming from conservatives and the pro-Israel lobby.
I personally would be okay with having NPR and BBC running such a program, although I don’t think it would work because conservatives don’t trust these two media organizations.
Perhaps the UN could create an agency to counteract the right-wing propaganda.
Shouldn’t your headline say “amuses.” He is in some fantasy world.
ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!! To do so would be a violation of freedom of expression. Think of it this way, if I ran the “agency” I would not allow what ProudButFoolishLiberal says because I think he is off his rocker.
Clinton is still upset that he was caught with a zona.
Can this agency go through slick willie’s autobiography, and maybe change the title from “My Life” to “My Lie”
Proud Liberal, you are living in some kind of parallel universe.
I can’t help but belive the rumors that you are a right wing activist in disguise.
Where is there “right wing propaganda” in the main stream media? If there is any propaganda going around its left wing.
Well at least you are consistent; Pro UN and anti-Israel (by proxy, what other reason would you have to be anti the “pro Israel Lobby”). I would consider the UN for such a task, but their track record stinks of corruption…
What are you doing on Yeshiva World News anyway? CNN or MsNBC is more your speed.
Again, ProudLiberal is a Conservative troll, just pretending to be extremely left-wing to generate a response. Ignore him.
mark levin – You object because you fall pray to all sorts of easily debunkable shtus…Obama is a Muslim…Obama isn’t a natural born citizen…the health care initiative involves a “government takeover” of health care/…and most of what spits out of Rush Limbaugh’s mouth as alleged fact.
We aren’t talking about censorship here…we’re talking about fact checking. Something unpleasant to zealots who wanrt the shtus to be true.
And don’t think it’s all so harmless…the same kind of bigoted anti-intellectual process of spreading shtuss as fact created and spread historical antisemetic myths