Showing posts with label truth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label truth. Show all posts

Thursday, January 24, 2019

What Is Truth? Philosophy's Hardest Problem Solved with Browser Plugin

For thousands of years mankind's greatest minds, from Socrates to Bertrand Russell, and from Aristarchus to Einstein, struggled with the question: what is the truth? Well they might as well not have bothered, for now we know that all they needed was a browser plug-in.

NewsGuard: Restoring Trust and Accountability 

Once you install NewsGuard’s free browser plugin, NewsGuard rating icons will begin to appear next to links on search engines and social media feeds, including Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Bing.

In addition to red and green icons for news and information websites, NewsGuard assigns a blue “platform” icon to sites that primarily host user-generated content. Humor or satire sites that mimic real news are assigned an orange “satire” icon. A grey icon indicates that a website has not yet been rated by NewsGuard’s team.

NewsGuard’s Icons:

So now we enter on an age of universal enlightenment. The truth about everything will be known to all and sundry. 

Nine-eleven? Think it might have been an inside job? Well, you no longer need to worry. NewsGuard with set your mind at rest. 

Sandy Hook School Massacre: fact or fiction? Now you will know. 

Who's lying about climate change? Ha! That's what NewGuard is here to tell you. 

Just look for the Big Green Check Mark, and you will KNOW THE TRUTH


And remember that the media is created by journalists. That's right the geniuses at NewsGuard who claim to have cracked philosophy's hard problem and can tell you what is truth and what is lies.

Meantime: 

America’s major media outlets are now making up EVERYTHING they report… four huge media hoaxes blow up in their faces

And

'Der Spiegel', Europe's most influential magazine, posted fake news for years

NewsGuard Greenlights BuzzardFeed, CrapNewsNow, and Other Top Fake News Outlets:

NewsGuard, founded by establishment media insiders and intelligence operatives, is a for-profit venture that seeks to partner with Big Tech to degrade, de-legitimize, and blacklist independent news sites that have gained trust and influence over the past decade. NewsGuard is already giving green light ratings to all the fake news giants that have been caught in massive media hoaxes, including BuzzFeed, Rolling Stone, CNN, WashPostand NY Times.

Friday, December 16, 2016

Brilliant Billionaires, No. 79: Mark Zuckerberg Cracks the Hard Philosophical Problem — What Is Truth?

We all know that young Mark Zuckerberg is a very smart man: a man of vision as well as a business tycoon. But who would have imagined that young Mark would answer what has been recognized throughout the ages as the greatest of all philosophical questions, namely: what is truth?

Yet young Mark has slashed the Gordian knot. He has discovered the test. He has found the touchstone of ultimate Truth, and it is to be put to immediate use, purifying the thoughts of mankind and advancing humanity in one giant leap to a state of perfect enlightenment. Henceforth, young Mark's fakebook will transmit nothing but the purest truth.