Current Events > UN free speech expert: Trump is the 'worst perpetrator' of disinformation

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https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/422951-un-freedom-of-expression-expert-trump-is-the-worst-perpetrator

A United Nations expert on freedom of expression said in a new interview that President Trump is the worst perpetrator of fake news and disinformation.

In my own country, the United States, the worst perpetrator of false information is the president of the United States, David Kaye, the U.N. special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of expression and opinion, told Digital Rights Monitor.

Earlier this month, The Washington Post's fact-checker introduced a Bottomless Pinocchio rating to call Trump out on his repeated false claims.

Kaye, who is also a law professor at the University of California, Irvine, also said that everybody is struggling with how to deal with the spread of misinformation and fake news from governments and foreign adversaries being spread online.

He added that journalists need to be covering" fake news and propaganda, but noted that its time consuming; it takes away from other reporting you might do, and when you do it you can come under pressure from the government or other actors.

He suggested that tech platforms do more to combat disinformation without evaluating content.

They cant just zap it and say, This is fake news, its off the platform, Kaye said. But they can do things like identify how long is this Twitter account thats tweeting all of this information, how long has it been in effect? Was it created three hours ago? Well then, maybe it should be restricted.

Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms have come under fire from both the right and the left about how they handle disinformation.

Trump, who repeatedly refers to unflattering coverage of his administration as fake news, has been among the conservative voices criticizing social media platforms for alleged silencing of right-wing accounts, which the tech companies have denied.

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Dat sounds like a whole lot of fake news!!!
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It's what he's done all his life

It's gonna catch up to him eventually.

Then once he's disgraced all the republicans who are bowing to him now will be like "I never really supported Trump, he wasn't a true conservative!"
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my peers elected that motherfucker :(
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He's not wrong.
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