> Facebook exacerbates poisonous politics by creating filter bubbles of like-minded partisans, spreading hoaxes and inaccuracies, inducing anxiety and paranoia,

> Facebook exacerbates poisonous politics by creating filter bubbles of like-minded partisans, spreading hoaxes and inaccuracies, inducing anxiety and paranoia, rewarding clickbait and outrage, and so on. An interesting example is the yellow vest protest in France. The mass media heavily emphasized the violence of the protesters. But, on social networks, people mainly shared videos of violence from the police. (ex: https://twitter.com/Albirew/status/1104799813076508673 https://twitter.com/Albirew/status/1104799813076508673 ) Another interesting news that was discovered thanks to social networks was that the public TV photoshoped a picture of the protest, changing a text from "Macron get out" to just "Macron" [1] The contrast between those two sources of information is striking. Both top-down mass media, and bottom-up social networks bring interesting news, but both are biased and inaccurate. [1] https://www.lesinrocks.com/2018/12/16/actualite/quand-france-3-censure-une-pancarte-anti-macron-111152498/ https://www.lesinrocks.com/2018/12/16/actualite/quand-france...