The increasing integration of the news cycle and social media serves to opinionize objectivity. If the notion of social media is tribes, and tribal adherence/m

The increasing integration of the news cycle and social media serves to opinionize objectivity. If the notion of social media is tribes, and tribal adherence/management/connectivity managed by upvotes and downvotes one can logically assume "engagement" on social media if tracked by upvotes just exacerbates this example. It would be more interesting if engagement on the newsroom side were met by the combination of actions (i.e up, down, retweet, reads, etc). At the same time that ultimately means that articles are now aiming for engagement - at the very least confrontational opinions and thoughts would be measured as "interesting". This is dangerous thought control popularized.