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The sad reality is hate and division results in a lot of clicks which helps to bring a lot of money into these Social Media organisations
Britain First at one stage were the largest political group on Facebook in the UK for example
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HyperNormalisation is still available to watch on iPlayer for anybody that hasn't seen it before. Link here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p04b183c/adam-curtis-hypernormalisation Just the 167 min running time so you might want to hold off from starting it tonight! Love some of the gems (both footage and accompanying music) Curtis pulls from the archive in making his documentaries.
Fact-check please... on 08:18 - May 28 by pointofblue
Exactly. Trump is kicking off because the social media companies are being pressured to not let him run amok with his lies this time around.
Apart from Facebook, who are happy to let the lies be spread
Zuckerberg went on Fox News—a hate-for-profit machine that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracy theorists—to talk about how social media platforms should essentially allow politicians to lie without consequences. This is eroding our democracy.https://t.co/0RXLEAw9xz
Fact-check please... on 21:53 - May 28 by ElderGrizzly
Apart from Facebook, who are happy to let the lies be spread
Zuckerberg went on Fox News—a hate-for-profit machine that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracy theorists—to talk about how social media platforms should essentially allow politicians to lie without consequences. This is eroding our democracy.https://t.co/0RXLEAw9xz
And Trump has now signed an executive order to try and control the Social Media firms
President Trump has signed an executive order against social media companies, days after Twitter called two of his tweets "potentially misleading" https://t.co/0d1EBdQ30Q