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What continues to fascinate me about stories like this is just how nakedly, obviously partisan the post-Trump reporting on the evils of social media is. Compare
by makomk 9y ago
What continues to fascinate me about stories like this is just how nakedly, obviously partisan the post-Trump reporting on the evils of social media is. Compare this with, for example, the tone of all the stories about how the Obama campaign used social media to win the previous election...
- praulv 9y agoThere's a difference inciting violence and hatred versus party propaganda.
- mtberatwork 9y agoIf I recall, the bulk of those stories occurred during Obama's first campaign. At that time social media was still in its infancy (Twitter, I believe, was only about a year old) and was a new phenomenon.
- oconnore 9y agoMost of the stories about social media are focused on the fact that it was non-US entities putting pro Trump posts up.
- ceejayoz 9y agoSocial media has dramatically wider penetration, Facebook's algorithms are vastly different, and the malicious actors have figured out what works well. It shouldn't be a shock that the coverage has changed as a result.