(Natural News) Earlier this year, investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson participated in a TEDx Talk at the University of Nevada, during which she revealed that the origins of the “fake news” narrative that was pushed by the Democrats during the 2016 presidential election can be traced back to a non-profit organization called “First Draft.” According to Attkisson, First Draft seems to be “the first to use ‘fake news’ in its modern context.”

“On September 13, 2016, First Draft announced a partnership to tackle malicious hoaxes and fake news reports,” Attkisson explained. “The goal was supposedly to separate wheat from chaff, to prevent unproven conspiracy talk from figuring prominently in internet searches. To relegate today’s version of the alien baby story to a special internet oblivion.”

After doing a bit of research, Attkisson eventually discovered that Google was one of First Draft’s primary donors. Interestingly enough, the head of Google’s parent company Alphabet – a man by the name of Eric Schmidt – happens to be a huge supporter of Hillary Clinton.

Eric Schmidt “offered himself up as a campaign adviser and became a top multi-million donor to it. His company funded First Draft around the start of the election cycle,” Attkisson explained during the TEDx Talk. “Not surprisingly, Hillary was soon to jump aboard the anti-fake news train and her surrogate David Brock of Media Matters privately told donors he was the one who convinced Facebook to join the effort.”

Just days after the election, the New York Times ran a story with the headline “Google and Facebook Take Aim at Fake News Sites.” In it, authors Nick Wingf

continue: https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-02-27-google-head-eric-schmidt-mastermind-behind-fake-news-censorship-agenda.html