The Facebook effect.

[Workingman]

Apparently there is evidence that Facebook played a big part in the Brexit and Trump results, and the traditional media does not like it.

It is reported that 156 million adults in the US are on Facebook and that 62% if them get their news from there. Unfortunately a lot of the'news' is fake, made up stories, click-bait. Really? And it automatically follows that all those people act upon it, does it? Well yes, because they are not sophisticated enough to filter out the truth from fiction, they are a bit thick.

Honestly, the stench of hypocrisy is suffocating. Press (media) barons have used the print media for centuries to sway public opinion, and they still do it to this day, only now they also have various electronic gateways to help them persuade us.

They might not plant fake stories in front of us, but they sure as hell have their agendas as anyone who watches Sky, ITN or the BBC will know.

[cromwell]

What the traditional media doesn't like is that people aren't buying what they are selling any more. A one eyed deaf man can tell that what mainstream TV news is putting out on politics is massively, utterly biased. It doesn't correspond with what many people see in their lives and they are going onto the web and finding other sources of information; the information that the mainstream doesn't bother to tell them about.

Hence the panic and the attempt smears on websites that aren't "on message".

[Workingman]

Hence the panic and the attempt smears on websites that aren't "on message".

And the people who use them.

They do not quite use the TIC language I used above, but they are not shy in telling us that people 'did not fully understand' or 'were not given enough information' and with warnings that 'not everything people read on the Internet can be relied upon'.

It is funny then that they all have click-bait links to Mailto:, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn...... some of the links are to the very sites they have just been warning about. Two-faced or what?

[Suff]

Facebook has real impact, yes. But they are looking for someone to blame. There is enough BS in the press nowadays to manure half the US. So if people are not going to seek the truth in the press, then why should they do it in a medium which is totally in their faces all the time.

Personally I'm quite amused. The press has been using this "acceptance" culture for decades now. They are paying the price for their own duplicity.