>That certainly does seem to be the underlying subtext of a lot of the recent criticism of Facebook. It's also an astounding line of thinking, because it basica

>That certainly does seem to be the underlying subtext of a lot of the recent criticism of Facebook. It's also an astounding line of thinking, because it basically says that it's politically unacceptable, even a danger to democracy I noticed this too. I presumed it's just the media reacting to its declining influence and facebook's increasing power over what we see. I've also noticed a lot of hand wringing about "facebook fake news" and the importance of "responsible journalism" from the likes of the New York Times and Washington Post as if none of use remember them (among other things) vigorously beating the Iraq war drum with equally fake news in 2003. On the one hand they've got a point. On the other hand it should be just about anybody else except them making that point.