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I don't know much about US elections in regard to facebook and fake news, but I did pay attention during Brexit. Most 'news' was fed to us through newspapers (o
by monk_e_boy 10y ago
I don't know much about US elections in regard to facebook and fake news, but I did pay attention during Brexit. Most 'news' was fed to us through newspapers (online and offline) the TV and radio. I didn't see a single fake news site, I saw some crap forwarded on facebook most of which had lots of comments calling it out as crap.
- dreamfactory2 10y agothere were a ton of brexit bots on twitter and in comment sections, they later started working for trump, and are now working for le pen. some stuff about it here - http://heatst.com/world/how-russias-twitter-bots-and-trolls-work-with-donald-trump-campaign-accounts/ http://heatst.com/world/how-russias-twitter-bots-and-trolls-...
- dredmorbius 10y agoResurrecting an inexplicably dead comment: Ithere were a ton of brexit bots on twitter and in comment sections, they later started working for trump, and are now working for le pen. some stuff about it here - https://heatst.com/world/how-russias-twitter-bots-and-trolls-work-with-donald-trump-campaign-accounts/ https://heatst.com/world/how-russias-twitter-bots-and-trolls...
- leereeves 10y agoPerhaps it's dead because it's dismissing people as bots and trolls because the author doesn't agree with them. > Broadly speaking, Trump has two categories of support on Twitter. Alt-right trolls, and Russian bot accounts