Originally Posted by
GGT
bump!
My initial question (almost 3 years ago) has been answered. Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter turned out to be important "news" outlets, even attracting trolls from foreign nations that wanted to manipulate opinions. They didn't care if it was left or right leaning, so long as it fomented internal polarity and chaos.
And now we have a POTUS that used his Twitter feed to call our free press the enemy of the people, almost like a test case. When that didn't get much push-back, he started shouting it at campaign rallies. When that got applause from the crowd, it moved from a meme to a guiding principle. Trump said, "What you're seeing and reading isn't what's happening"....it's all Fake News.
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